[RFC PATCH ghak32 V2 02/13] audit: check children and threading before allowing containerid

Richard Guy Briggs rgb at redhat.com
Fri Mar 16 09:00:29 UTC 2018


Check if a task has existing children or co-threads and refuse to set
the container ID if either are present.  Failure to check this could
permit games where a child scratches its parent's back to work around
inheritance and double-setting policy.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb at redhat.com>
---
 kernel/auditsc.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index 29c8482..a6b0a52 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -2087,6 +2087,10 @@ static int audit_set_containerid_perm(struct task_struct *task, u64 containerid)
 	/* if we don't have caps, reject */
 	if (!capable(CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL))
 		return -EPERM;
+	/* if task has children or is not single-threaded, deny */
+	if (!list_empty(&task->children) ||
+	    !(thread_group_leader(task) && thread_group_empty(task)))
+		return -EPERM;
 	/* if containerid is unset, allow */
 	if (!audit_containerid_set(task))
 		return 0;
-- 
1.8.3.1




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