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Hallyn" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com Subject: [PATCH v5 5/8] security/brute: Mitigate a brute force attack Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2021 16:30:10 +0100 Message-Id: <20210227153013.6747-6-john.wood@gmx.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20210227153013.6747-1-john.wood@gmx.com> References: <20210227153013.6747-1-john.wood@gmx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:N9BKOY8hiGdBPHnQMaciOAbJcMHRrfanbEh/6b//IXbA/ZK30Qt GWzzwDIpksnfdMGLROP0Qf+owHixm9rLyGW74QMTaex4gWWyZjhWKmwR4tu9Flz8A7R6iZA zzyRVmqA5xFj6Wy4pIEYA4iNGQF5Wg1U6IDEm9x4hxidxG/nGRHMauakmZWTaOlgCY0KyC0 0j9kLkRX8qItyZF2WBicQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:kSdF3TXhtH8=:9SQpwjKK38trO/Q6Wq4i0P 1RYb5ygdlQo/huv4F5I2cWU1m7kdTD3s04IEf62MeM9Nh4dy/FC7yYw3/N92PCyUnoEMWF6Ln AWmmVjhXtSCjxZ0ZAqGtAjgvaGke203UeLnCLANXPRX3Fv9X/qfU/SXMA7HTbksKyn9VaKYp5 r9iORiEnE9FxjYnEXj6zwwSJTnTayLUTNn7fgqSV9qwVb+4mtt8dOD/iTqk7G7k/dLbFOSDST BU3+AFoeUilaOCIetT64xoeIynNEWNcqSqn2QQ/kEkF9kRYpKkj7bzjHbSkO0Plmq2cTEZ3pB 6Wgj6v5m+PdtBCSA+LWmdQlY/c/oG0YrHLn2VqcWHodxWl89WLe03/AoKEtO7QMoS3VvOOSqA DrL15NWaGtfyYqxp6+YC6jLih+hdaqe6rARcuDdAqXTGmL3yKN5yxiwG9F7zxXQsQEyTxm63Q lWZSlYWvRoV8U8z1l+O5B244cHuyN1TKOag2sUuOsaA4iG4KoXU8diPEtDW9HmotTRrzHD+Pk Di6lYLpyW/urOlXZmEhwqX9i3XfWTkhrxhrZowglIQi2vqXxbg6/RLYJvuJW+QPf7twapHVJ1 EsTHP4Ke3+7HYV/0CPUdUOcLLkFX4xqx5Y7YgkV/5N3moFEbriJnFn63cvUcV2caBzXU3fMhb 8zNp/Bpqj14Wa3PCNBh3hpQXVFkee3B7jfzuTLsv1d1UNWxTbkmIMv/H5QUCJ55Af4bhOtdFW kBcn4nw0BwVt/hm/rcM4nLGUgiqfZ8cuVNEcFSZYO1sIsjS8A95U2XTkbfYgkuulOaEsiNYbX nIp2TP3PpI4CUV4aPnRSs5//obp57eJzjnbJna4zaDJNSnidtwmsuMd2jnWTQJ0oooYRfhxSk Bg0+iS09JAaEkCm3Cd5w== Precedence: bulk List-ID: In order to mitigate a brute force attack all the offending tasks involved in the attack must be killed. In other words, it is necessary to kill all the tasks that share the fork and/or exec statistical data related to the attack. Moreover, if the attack happens through the fork system call, the processes that have the same group_leader that the current task (the task that has crashed) must be avoided since they are in the path to be killed. When the SIGKILL signal is sent to the offending tasks, the function "brute_kill_offending_tasks" will be called in a recursive way from the task_fatal_signal LSM hook due to a small crash period. So, to avoid kill again the same tasks due to a recursive call of this function, it is necessary to disable the attack detection for the involved hierarchies. To disable the attack detection, set to zero the last crash timestamp and avoid to compute the application crash period in this case. Signed-off-by: John Wood --- security/brute/brute.c | 141 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 132 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1 diff --git a/security/brute/brute.c b/security/brute/brute.c index 0a99cd4c3303..48b07d923ec7 100644 --- a/security/brute/brute.c +++ b/security/brute/brute.c @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include #include @@ -64,7 +65,7 @@ struct brute_cred { * @lock: Lock to protect the brute_stats structure. * @refc: Reference counter. * @faults: Number of crashes. - * @jiffies: Last crash timestamp. + * @jiffies: Last crash timestamp. If zero, the attack detection is disabled. * @period: Crash period's moving average. * @saved_cred: Saved credentials. * @network: Network activity flag. @@ -566,6 +567,125 @@ static inline void print_fork_attack_running(void) pr_warn("Fork brute force attack detected [%s]\n", current->comm); } +/** + * brute_disabled() - Test if the brute force attack detection is disabled. + * @stats: Statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes. + * + * The brute force attack detection enabling/disabling is based on the last + * crash timestamp. A zero timestamp indicates that this feature is disabled. A + * timestamp greater than zero indicates that the attack detection is enabled. + * + * The statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes cannot be + * NULL. + * + * It's mandatory to disable interrupts before acquiring the brute_stats::lock + * since the task_free hook can be called from an IRQ context during the + * execution of the task_fatal_signal hook. + * + * Context: Must be called with interrupts disabled and brute_stats_ptr_lock + * held. + * Return: True if the brute force attack detection is disabled. False + * otherwise. + */ +static bool brute_disabled(struct brute_stats *stats) +{ + bool disabled; + + spin_lock(&stats->lock); + disabled = !stats->jiffies; + spin_unlock(&stats->lock); + + return disabled; +} + +/** + * brute_disable() - Disable the brute force attack detection. + * @stats: Statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes. + * + * To disable the brute force attack detection it is only necessary to set the + * last crash timestamp to zero. A zero timestamp indicates that this feature is + * disabled. A timestamp greater than zero indicates that the attack detection + * is enabled. + * + * The statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes cannot be + * NULL. + * + * Context: Must be called with interrupts disabled and brute_stats_ptr_lock + * and brute_stats::lock held. + */ +static inline void brute_disable(struct brute_stats *stats) +{ + stats->jiffies = 0; +} + +/** + * enum brute_attack_type - Brute force attack type. + * @BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_FORK: Attack that happens through the fork system call. + * @BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_EXEC: Attack that happens through the execve system call. + */ +enum brute_attack_type { + BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_FORK, + BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_EXEC, +}; + +/** + * brute_kill_offending_tasks() - Kill the offending tasks. + * @attack_type: Brute force attack type. + * @stats: Statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes. + * + * When a brute force attack is detected all the offending tasks involved in the + * attack must be killed. In other words, it is necessary to kill all the tasks + * that share the same statistical data. Moreover, if the attack happens through + * the fork system call, the processes that have the same group_leader that the + * current task must be avoided since they are in the path to be killed. + * + * When the SIGKILL signal is sent to the offending tasks, this function will be + * called again from the task_fatal_signal hook due to a small crash period. So, + * to avoid kill again the same tasks due to a recursive call of this function, + * it is necessary to disable the attack detection for this fork hierarchy. + * + * The statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes cannot be + * NULL. + * + * It's mandatory to disable interrupts before acquiring the brute_stats::lock + * since the task_free hook can be called from an IRQ context during the + * execution of the task_fatal_signal hook. + * + * Context: Must be called with interrupts disabled and tasklist_lock and + * brute_stats_ptr_lock held. + */ +static void brute_kill_offending_tasks(enum brute_attack_type attack_type, + struct brute_stats *stats) +{ + struct task_struct *p; + struct brute_stats **p_stats; + + spin_lock(&stats->lock); + + if (attack_type == BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_FORK && + refcount_read(&stats->refc) == 1) { + spin_unlock(&stats->lock); + return; + } + + brute_disable(stats); + spin_unlock(&stats->lock); + + for_each_process(p) { + if (attack_type == BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_FORK && + p->group_leader == current->group_leader) + continue; + + p_stats = brute_stats_ptr(p); + if (*p_stats != stats) + continue; + + do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, p, PIDTYPE_PID); + pr_warn_ratelimited("Offending process %d [%s] killed\n", + p->pid, p->comm); + } +} + /** * brute_manage_fork_attack() - Manage a fork brute force attack. * @stats: Statistical data shared by all the fork hierarchy processes. @@ -581,8 +701,8 @@ static inline void print_fork_attack_running(void) * since the task_free hook can be called from an IRQ context during the * execution of the task_fatal_signal hook. * - * Context: Must be called with interrupts disabled and brute_stats_ptr_lock - * held. + * Context: Must be called with interrupts disabled and tasklist_lock and + * brute_stats_ptr_lock held. * Return: The last crash timestamp before updating it. */ static u64 brute_manage_fork_attack(struct brute_stats *stats, u64 now) @@ -590,8 +710,10 @@ static u64 brute_manage_fork_attack(struct brute_stats *stats, u64 now) u64 last_fork_crash; last_fork_crash = brute_update_crash_period(stats, now); - if (brute_attack_running(stats)) + if (brute_attack_running(stats)) { print_fork_attack_running(); + brute_kill_offending_tasks(BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_FORK, stats); + } return last_fork_crash; } @@ -778,8 +900,10 @@ static void brute_manage_exec_attack(struct brute_stats *stats, u64 now, if (fork_period == exec_period) return; - if (brute_attack_running(exec_stats)) + if (brute_attack_running(exec_stats)) { print_exec_attack_running(exec_stats); + brute_kill_offending_tasks(BRUTE_ATTACK_TYPE_EXEC, exec_stats); + } } /** @@ -895,10 +1019,9 @@ static void brute_task_fatal_signal(const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo) read_lock(&tasklist_lock); read_lock_irqsave(&brute_stats_ptr_lock, flags); - if (WARN(!*stats, "No statistical data\n")) - goto unlock; - - if (!brute_threat_model_supported(siginfo, *stats)) + if (WARN(!*stats, "No statistical data\n") || + brute_disabled(*stats) || + !brute_threat_model_supported(siginfo, *stats)) goto unlock; last_fork_crash = brute_manage_fork_attack(*stats, now);