Commit d7402698 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by Linus Torvalds
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exec: use -ELOOP for max recursion depth



To avoid an explosion of request_module calls on a chain of abusive
scripts, fail maximum recursion with -ELOOP instead of -ENOEXEC. As soon
as maximum recursion depth is hit, the error will fail all the way back
up the chain, aborting immediately.

This also has the side-effect of stopping the user's shell from attempting
to reexecute the top-level file as a shell script. As seen in the
dash source:

        if (cmd != path_bshell && errno == ENOEXEC) {
                *argv-- = cmd;
                *argv = cmd = path_bshell;
                goto repeat;
        }

The above logic was designed for running scripts automatically that lacked
the "#!" header, not to re-try failed recursion. On a legitimate -ENOEXEC,
things continue to behave as the shell expects.

Additionally, when tracking recursion, the binfmt handlers should not be
involved. The recursion being tracked is the depth of calls through
search_binary_handler(), so that function should be exclusively responsible
for tracking the depth.

Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: halfdog <me@halfdog.net>
Cc: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 8d238027
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@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ static int load_em86(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
			return -ENOEXEC;
	}

	bprm->recursion_depth++; /* Well, the bang-shell is implicit... */
	allow_write_access(bprm->file);
	fput(bprm->file);
	bprm->file = NULL;
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@@ -117,10 +117,6 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
	if (!enabled)
		goto _ret;

	retval = -ENOEXEC;
	if (bprm->recursion_depth > BINPRM_MAX_RECURSION)
		goto _ret;

	/* to keep locking time low, we copy the interpreter string */
	read_lock(&entries_lock);
	fmt = check_file(bprm);
@@ -197,8 +193,6 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
	if (retval < 0)
		goto _error;

	bprm->recursion_depth++;

	retval = search_binary_handler(bprm);
	if (retval < 0)
		goto _error;
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@@ -22,15 +22,13 @@ static int load_script(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
	char interp[BINPRM_BUF_SIZE];
	int retval;

	if ((bprm->buf[0] != '#') || (bprm->buf[1] != '!') ||
	    (bprm->recursion_depth > BINPRM_MAX_RECURSION))
	if ((bprm->buf[0] != '#') || (bprm->buf[1] != '!'))
		return -ENOEXEC;
	/*
	 * This section does the #! interpretation.
	 * Sorta complicated, but hopefully it will work.  -TYT
	 */

	bprm->recursion_depth++;
	allow_write_access(bprm->file);
	fput(bprm->file);
	bprm->file = NULL;
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@@ -1356,6 +1356,10 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
	struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
	pid_t old_pid, old_vpid;

	/* This allows 4 levels of binfmt rewrites before failing hard. */
	if (depth > 5)
		return -ELOOP;

	retval = security_bprm_check(bprm);
	if (retval)
		return retval;
@@ -1380,12 +1384,8 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
			if (!try_module_get(fmt->module))
				continue;
			read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
			bprm->recursion_depth = depth + 1;
			retval = fn(bprm);
			/*
			 * Restore the depth counter to its starting value
			 * in this call, so we don't have to rely on every
			 * load_binary function to restore it on return.
			 */
			bprm->recursion_depth = depth;
			if (retval >= 0) {
				if (depth == 0) {
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@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ struct linux_binprm {
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD_BIT 1
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD (1 << BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD_BIT)

#define BINPRM_MAX_RECURSION 4

/* Function parameter for binfmt->coredump */
struct coredump_params {
	siginfo_t *siginfo;