In changing from checking ptrace_may_access(p, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS)
to capable(CAP_SYS_NICE), I missed that ptrace_my_access succeeds
when p == current, but the CAP_SYS_NICE doesn't.
Thus while the previous commit was intended to loosen the needed
privledges to modify a processes timerslack, it needlessly restricted
a task modifying its own timerslack via the proc/<tid>/timerslack_ns
(which is permitted also via the PR_SET_TIMERSLACK method).
This patch corrects this by checking if p == current before checking
the CAP_SYS_NICE value.
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com>
Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>
Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com>
Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com>
Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
Cc: Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Mailing-list-url: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2317488.html
Change-Id: Ia3e8aff07c2d41f55b6617502d33c39b7d781aac
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
if (!p)
return -ESRCH;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
- count = -EPERM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (p != current) {
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+ count = -EPERM;
+ goto out;
+ }
- err = security_task_setscheduler(p);
- if (err) {
- count = err;
- goto out;
+ err = security_task_setscheduler(p);
+ if (err) {
+ count = err;
+ goto out;
+ }
}
task_lock(p);
if (!p)
return -ESRCH;
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
- err = -EPERM;
- goto out;
- }
+ if (p != current) {
- err = security_task_getscheduler(p);
- if (err)
- goto out;
+ if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
+ err = -EPERM;
+ goto out;
+ }
+ err = security_task_getscheduler(p);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+ }
task_lock(p);
seq_printf(m, "%llu\n", p->timer_slack_ns);