procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ
authorKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:54:44 +0000 (18:54 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:06:04 +0000 (11:06 -0700)
commit7bc3fa0172a423afb34e6df7a3998e5f23b1a94a
tree51fae6ee93cf450e32001c6434ca06e5eb32edec
parentd238692b4b9f2c36e35af4c6e6f6da36184aeb3e
procfs: allow reading fdinfo with PTRACE_MODE_READ

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.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210308170651.919148-1-kaleshsingh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com>
Cc: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/proc/base.c
fs/proc/fd.c