[PATCH v2 1/2] procfs: Allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ

[Kalesh Singh]

Android captures per-process system memory state when certain low memory
events (e.g a foreground app kill) occur, to identify potential memory
hoggers. In order to measure how much memory a process actually consumes,
it is necessary to include the DMA buffer sizes for that process in the
memory accounting. Since the handle to DMA buffers are raw FDs, it is
important to be able to identify which processes have FD references to
a DMA buffer.

Currently, DMA buffer FDs can be accounted using /proc/<pid>/fd/* and
/proc/<pid>/fdinfo -- both are only readable by the process owner,
as follows:
  1. Do a readlink on each FD.
  2. If the target path begins with "/dmabuf", then the FD is a dmabuf FD.
  3. stat the file to get the dmabuf inode number.
  4. Read/ proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd>, to get the DMA buffer size.

Accessing other processes’ fdinfo requires root privileges. This limits
the use of the interface to debugging environments and is not suitable
for production builds.  Granting root privileges even to a system process
increases the attack surface and is highly undesirable.

Since fdinfo doesn't permit reading process memory and manipulating
process state, allow accessing fdinfo under PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED.

Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh at google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh at google.com>
---

Changes in v2:
  - Update patch desciption

 fs/proc/base.c |  4 ++--
 fs/proc/fd.c   | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index b3422cda2a91..a37f9de7103f 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -3160,7 +3160,7 @@ static const struct pid_entry tgid_base_stuff[] = {
 	DIR("task",       S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_task_inode_operations, proc_task_operations),
 	DIR("fd",         S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
 	DIR("map_files",  S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_map_files_inode_operations, proc_map_files_operations),
-	DIR("fdinfo",     S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+	DIR("fdinfo",     S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
 	DIR("ns",	  S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET
 	DIR("net",        S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_net_inode_operations, proc_net_operations),
@@ -3504,7 +3504,7 @@ static const struct inode_operations proc_tid_comm_inode_operations = {
  */
 static const struct pid_entry tid_base_stuff[] = {
 	DIR("fd",        S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fd_inode_operations, proc_fd_operations),
-	DIR("fdinfo",    S_IRUSR|S_IXUSR, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
+	DIR("fdinfo",    S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_fdinfo_inode_operations, proc_fdinfo_operations),
 	DIR("ns",	 S_IRUSR|S_IXUGO, proc_ns_dir_inode_operations, proc_ns_dir_operations),
 #ifdef CONFIG_NET
 	DIR("net",        S_IRUGO|S_IXUGO, proc_net_inode_operations, proc_net_operations),
diff --git a/fs/proc/fd.c b/fs/proc/fd.c
index cb51763ed554..585e213301f9 100644
--- a/fs/proc/fd.c
+++ b/fs/proc/fd.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/fdtable.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/pid.h>
+#include <linux/ptrace.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/file.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
@@ -72,6 +73,18 @@ static int seq_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
 
 static int seq_fdinfo_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
+	bool allowed = false;
+	struct task_struct *task = get_proc_task(inode);
+
+	if (!task)
+		return -ESRCH;
+
+	allowed = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS);
+	put_task_struct(task);
+
+	if (!allowed)
+		return -EACCES;
+
 	return single_open(file, seq_show, inode);
 }
 
@@ -307,7 +320,7 @@ static struct dentry *proc_fdinfo_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct proc_inode *ei;
 	struct inode *inode;
 
-	inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dentry->d_sb, task, S_IFREG | S_IRUSR);
+	inode = proc_pid_make_inode(dentry->d_sb, task, S_IFREG | S_IRUGO);
 	if (!inode)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 
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2.30.0.365.g02bc693789-goog