ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat

Reading /proc/pid/stat of another process checks if one has ptrace permissions on that process. If one does have permissions it outputs some data about the process which might have security and attack implications. If the current task does not have ptrace permissions the read still works, but those fields are filled with inocuous (0) values. Since this check and a subsequent denial is not a violation of the security policy we should not audit such denials. This can be quite useful to removing ptrace broadly across a system without flooding the logs when ps is run or something which harmlessly walks proc. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[email protected]>
JoseTeuttli · Jan 5, 2012 · 69f594a · 69f594a
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diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 
 	state = *get_task_state(task);
 	vsize = eip = esp = 0;
-	permitted = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ);
+	permitted = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ | PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT);
 	mm = get_task_mm(task);
 	if (mm) {
 		vsize = task_vsize(mm);

diff --git a/include/linux/ptrace.h b/include/linux/ptrace.h
@@ -127,8 +127,9 @@ extern void __ptrace_link(struct task_struct *child,
 			  struct task_struct *new_parent);
 extern void __ptrace_unlink(struct task_struct *child);
 extern void exit_ptrace(struct task_struct *tracer);
-#define PTRACE_MODE_READ   1
-#define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH 2
+#define PTRACE_MODE_READ	0x01
+#define PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH	0x02
+#define PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT	0x04
 /* Returns 0 on success, -errno on denial. */
 extern int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode);
 /* Returns true on success, false on denial. */

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -161,6 +161,14 @@ int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+static int ptrace_has_cap(struct user_namespace *ns, unsigned int mode)
+{
+	if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT)
+		return has_ns_capability_noaudit(current, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
+	else
+		return has_ns_capability(current, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
+}
+
 int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 {
 	const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;
@@ -187,7 +195,7 @@ int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	     cred->gid == tcred->sgid &&
 	     cred->gid == tcred->gid))
 		goto ok;
-	if (ns_capable(tcred->user->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+	if (ptrace_has_cap(tcred->user->user_ns, mode))
 		goto ok;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return -EPERM;
@@ -196,7 +204,7 @@ int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	smp_rmb();
 	if (task->mm)
 		dumpable = get_dumpable(task->mm);
-	if (!dumpable && !ns_capable(task_user_ns(task), CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
+	if (!dumpable  && !ptrace_has_cap(task_user_ns(task), mode))
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -1809,7 +1809,7 @@ static int selinux_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child,
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
-	if (mode == PTRACE_MODE_READ) {
+	if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_READ) {
 		u32 sid = current_sid();
 		u32 csid = task_sid(child);
 		return avc_has_perm(sid, csid, SECCLASS_FILE, FILE__READ, NULL);