[Devel] [PATCH v3] Allow access to /proc/$PID/fd after setuid()

[Alexey Dobriyan]

/proc/$PID/fd has r-x------ permissions, so if process does setuid(), it
will not be able to access /proc/*/fd/. This breaks fstatat() emulation
in glibc.

open("foo", O_RDONLY|O_DIRECTORY)       = 4
setuid32(65534)                         = 0
stat64("/proc/self/fd/4/bar", 0xbfafb298) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

Comments and suggestions from Andrew Morton and Oleg Nesterov.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at openvz.org>
---

 fs/proc/base.c |   18 ++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -1414,10 +1414,28 @@ static struct file_operations proc_fd_op
 };
 
 /*
+ * /proc/pid/fd needs a special permission handler so that a process can still
+ * access /proc/self/fd after it has executed a setuid().
+ */
+static int proc_fd_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask,
+				struct nameidata *nd)
+{
+	int rv;
+
+	rv = generic_permission(inode, mask, NULL);
+	if (rv == 0)
+		return 0;
+	if (task_pid(current) == proc_pid(inode))
+		rv = 0;
+	return rv;
+}
+
+/*
  * proc directories can do almost nothing..
  */
 static struct inode_operations proc_fd_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup		= proc_lookupfd,
+	.permission	= proc_fd_permission,
 	.setattr	= proc_setattr,
 };