Re: [PATCH] fs/open: Fix most outstanding security bugs

[Torsten Duwe]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 11:01:13AM +0200, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> Over the last 20 years, the Linux kernel has accumulated hundreds if not
> thousands of security vulnerabilities.
> 
> One common pattern in most of these security related reports is processes
> called "syzkaller", "trinity" or "syz-executor" opening files and then
> abuse kernel interfaces causing kernel crashes or even worse threats using
> memory overwrites or by exploiting race conditions.
> 
> Hunting down these bugs has become time consuming and very expensive, so
> I've decided to put an end to it.
> 
> If one of the above mentioned processes tries opening a file, return -EPERM
> indicating this process does not have the permission to open files on Linux
> anymore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@xxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/open.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
> index f1c2f855fd43..3a3b460beccd 100644
> --- a/fs/open.c
> +++ b/fs/open.c
> @@ -1056,6 +1056,20 @@ long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
>  	struct open_flags op;
>  	int fd = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
>  	struct filename *tmp;
> +	char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
> +	int i;
> +	static const char * const list[] = {

"list" is a bit ambiguous. You could call it "blacklist" or such.

> +		"syzkaller",
> +		"syz-executor,"
> +		"trinity",
> +		NULL
> +	};
> +
> +	get_task_comm(comm, current);
> +
> +	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(list); i++)
> +		if (!strncmp(comm, list[i], strlen(list[i])))
> +			return -EPERM;
                               ^^^^^^^
should be -ECONNRESET.

Also, I'm missing a sysfs parameter file to add more bad guys dynamically.

>  	if (fd)
>  		return fd;
> -- 
> 2.16.4

But for a start, this is OK.
In any case, as already mentioned, big player Cisco has shown us that this is
definitely the way to go!

Rviewed-by: Torsten Duwe <duwe@xxxxxx>