Previously it was not possible for this function to fail. You could
exploit this by triggering the creation of a VMObject whose physical
memory range would wrap around the 32-bit limit.
It was quite easy to map kernel memory into userspace and read/write
whatever you wanted in it.
Test: Kernel/bxvga-mmap-kernel-into-userspace.cpp
Right now, permission flags passed to VFS::open() are effectively ignored, but
that is going to change.
* O_RDONLY is 0, but it's still nicer to pass it explicitly
* POSIX says that binding a Unix socket to a symlink shall fail with EADDRINUSE
It's now an error to sys$mmap() a file as writable if it's currently
mapped executable by anyone else.
It's also an error to sys$execve() a file that's currently mapped
writable by anyone else.
This fixes a race condition vulnerability where one program could make
modifications to an executable while another process was in the kernel,
in the middle of exec'ing the same executable.
Test: Kernel/elf-execve-mmap-race.cpp
It was possible to craft a custom ELF executable that when symbolicated
would cause the kernel to read from user-controlled addresses anywhere
in memory. You could then fetch this memory via /proc/PID/stack
We fix this by making ELFImage hand out StringView rather than raw
const char* for symbol names. In case a symbol offset is outside the
ELF image, you get a null StringView. :^)
Test: Kernel/elf-symbolication-kernel-read-exploit.cpp
The join_thread() syscall is not supposed to be interruptible by
signals, but it was. And since the process death mechanism piggybacked
on signal interrupts, it was possible to interrupt a pthread_join() by
killing the process that was doing it, leading to confusing due to some
assumptions being made by Thread::finalize() for threads that have a
pending joiner.
This patch fixes the issue by making "interrupted by death" a distinct
block result separate from "interrupted by signal". Then we handle that
state in join_thread() and tidy things up so that thread finalization
doesn't get confused by the pending joiner being gone.
Test: Tests/Kernel/null-deref-crash-during-pthread_join.cpp
This fixes a null RefPtr deref (which asserts) in the scheduler if a
file descriptor being select()'ed is closed by a second thread while
blocked in select().
Test: Kernel/null-deref-close-during-select.cpp
This patch fixes some issues with the mmap() and mprotect() syscalls,
neither of whom were checking the permission bits of the underlying
files when mapping an inode MAP_SHARED.
This made it possible to subvert execution of any running program
by simply memory-mapping its executable and replacing some of the code.
Test: Kernel/mmap-write-into-running-programs-executable-file.cpp
This encourages callers to strongly reference file descriptions while
working with them.
This fixes a use-after-free issue where one thread would close() an
open fd while another thread was blocked on it becoming readable.
Test: Kernel/uaf-close-while-blocked-in-read.cpp
