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Date:   Tue, 2 Apr 2019 09:56:58 +0200
From:   Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>
To:     Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linux FSDEVEL Mailinglist <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/open: Fix most outstanding security bugs
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+++ Johannes Thumshirn [01/04/19 11:01 +0200]:
>Over the last 20 years, the Linux kernel has accumulated hundreds if not
>thousands of security vulnerabilities.
>
>One common pattern in most of these security related reports is processes
>called "syzkaller", "trinity" or "syz-executor" opening files and then
>abuse kernel interfaces causing kernel crashes or even worse threats using
>memory overwrites or by exploiting race conditions.
>
>Hunting down these bugs has become time consuming and very expensive, so
>I've decided to put an end to it.
>
>If one of the above mentioned processes tries opening a file, return -EPERM
>indicating this process does not have the permission to open files on Linux
>anymore.
>
>Signed-off-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>

Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org>

:-)

>---
> fs/open.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
>index f1c2f855fd43..3a3b460beccd 100644
>--- a/fs/open.c
>+++ b/fs/open.c
>@@ -1056,6 +1056,20 @@ long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
> 	struct open_flags op;
> 	int fd = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
> 	struct filename *tmp;
>+	char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN];
>+	int i;
>+	static const char * const list[] = {
>+		"syzkaller",
>+		"syz-executor,"
>+		"trinity",
>+		NULL
>+	};
>+
>+	get_task_comm(comm, current);
>+
>+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(list); i++)
>+		if (!strncmp(comm, list[i], strlen(list[i])))
>+			return -EPERM;
>
> 	if (fd)
> 		return fd;
>-- 
>2.16.4
>