Re: [PATCH 1/2] exec: Make do_coredump more robust and safer whenusing pipes in core_pattern: recursive dump detection

[Neil Horman]

core_pattern: Change how we detect recursive dumps with core_pattern pipes

Change how we detect recursive dumps.  Currently we have a mechanism by which
we try to compare pathnames of the crashing process to the core_pattern path.
This is broken for a dozen reasons, and just doesn't work in any sort of robust
way.  I'm replacing it with the use of a 0 RLIMIT_CORE value.  Since helper
apps set RLIMIT_CORE to zero, we don't write out core files for any process with
that particular limit set.  It the core_pattern is a pipe, any non-zero limit is
translated to RLIM_INFINITY.  This allows complete dumps to be captured, but
prevents infinite recursion in the event that the core_pattern process itself
crashes.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Earl Chew <earl_chew@xxxxxxxxxxx>


exec.c |   32 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index ebe359f..163cfa7 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1802,22 +1802,28 @@ int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs * regs)
 		goto fail_unlock;
 
  	if (ispipe) {
-		helper_argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, corename+1, &helper_argc);
-		/* Terminate the string before the first option */
-		delimit = strchr(corename, ' ');
-		if (delimit)
-			*delimit = '\0';
-		delimit = strrchr(helper_argv[0], '/');
-		if (delimit)
-			delimit++;
-		else
-			delimit = helper_argv[0];
-		if (!strcmp(delimit, current->comm)) {
-			printk(KERN_NOTICE "Recursive core dump detected, "
-					"aborting\n");
+		if (core_limit == 0) {
+			 /*
+			 * Normally core limits are irrelevant to pipes, since
+			 * we're not writing to the file system, but we use
+			 * core_limit of 0 here as a speacial value. Any
+			 * non-zero limit gets set to RLIM_INFINITY below, but
+			 * a limit of 0 skips the dump.  This is a consistent
+			 * way to catch recursive crashes.  We can still crash
+			 * if the core_pattern binary sets RLIM_CORE =  !0
+			 * but it runs as root, and can do lots of stupid things
+			 * Note that we use task_tgid_vnr here to grab the pid of the
+			 * process group leader.  That way we get the right pid if a thread
+			 * in a multi-threaded core_pattern process dies.
+			 */
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "Process %d(%s) has RLIMIT_CORE set to 0\n",
+			       task_tgid_vnr(current), current->comm);
+			printk(KERN_WARNING "Aborting core\n");
 			goto fail_unlock;
 		}
 
+		helper_argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, corename+1, &helper_argc);
+
 		core_limit = RLIM_INFINITY;
 
 		/* SIGPIPE can happen, but it's just never processed */
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