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fork: record start_time late
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This changes the fork(2) syscall to record the process start_time after
initializing the basic task structure but still before making the new
process visible to user-space.
Technically, we could record the start_time anytime during fork(2). But
this might lead to scenarios where a start_time is recorded long before
a process becomes visible to user-space. For instance, with
userfaultfd(2) and TLS, user-space can delay the execution of fork(2)
for an indefinite amount of time (and will, if this causes network
access, or similar).
By recording the start_time late, it much closer reflects the point in
time where the process becomes live and can be observed by other
processes.
Lastly, this makes it much harder for user-space to predict and control
the start_time they get assigned. Previously, user-space could fork a
process and stall it in copy_thread_tls() before its pid is allocated,
but after its start_time is recorded. This can be misused to later-on
cycle through PIDs and resume the stalled fork(2) yielding a process
that has the same pid and start_time as a process that existed before.
This can be used to circumvent security systems that identify processes
by their pid+start_time combination.
Even though user-space was always aware that start_time recording is
flaky (but several projects are known to still rely on start_time-based
identification), changing the start_time to be recorded late will help
mitigate existing attacks and make it much harder for user-space to
control the start_time a process gets assigned.
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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@ -1672,8 +1672,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
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posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
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p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
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p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
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p->io_context = NULL;
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p->audit_context = NULL;
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cgroup_fork(p);
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@ -1837,6 +1835,17 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
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if (retval)
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goto bad_fork_free_pid;
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/*
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* From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
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* communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
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* not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by
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* stalling fork(2) after we recorded the start_time but before it is
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* visible to the system.
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*/
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p->start_time = ktime_get_ns();
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p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns();
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/*
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* Make it visible to the rest of the system, but dont wake it up yet.
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* Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling!
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