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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/1] futex: check PF_KTHREAD rather than !p->mm to filter out kthreads
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On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 04:11:59PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 03:05:15PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > First of all, why exactly do we need this mm/PF_KTHREAD check added by
> > f0d71b3dcb8332f7971 ? Of course, it is simply wrong to declare a random
> > kernel thread to be the owner as the changelog says. But why kthread is
> > worse than a random user-space task, say, /sbin/init?
>
> As the changelog says, we _should_ equally disallow other userspace
> tasks that do not share the futex value with us, its just that at the
> time we could not come up with a sensible (and cheap) way of testing for
> this.
>
> > IIUC, the fact that we can abuse ->pi_state_list is not that bad, no matter
> > if this (k)thread will exit or not. AFAICS, the only problem is that we can
> > boost the prio of this thread. Or I missed another problem?
>
> No that's it.

Prio leaks allow (local) DoS attacks. It allows an unpriv user to gain
FIFO and burn silly amounts of cycles.

We should really plug that hole entirely.


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