Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Sat 07-11-15 21:02:06, Ted Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:05:57PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> > >>>> They're certainly not used early enough -- we need to remove suid when
> > >>>> the page becomes writable via mmap (wp_page_shared), not when
> > >>>> writeback happens, or at least not only when writeback happens.
> > >>>
> > >>> Well, I'm shy about the change there. For example, we don't strip in
> > >>> on open(RDWR), just on write().
> > >>
> > >> I take it back. Hooking wp_page_shared looks expensive. :) Maybe we do
> > >> need to hook the mmap?
> > >
> > > But file_update_time already pokes at the same (or nearby) cachelines,
> > > I think -- why would it be expensive?  The whole thing could be
> > > guarded by if (unlikely(is setuid)), right?
> > 
> > Yeah, true. I added file_remove_privs calls near all the
> > file_update_time calls, to no effect. Added to wp_page_shared too,
> > nothing. Hmmm.
> 
> Why not put the the should_remove_suid() call in
> filemap_page_mkwrite(), or maybe do_page_mkwrite()?

page_mkwrite() callbacks are IMHO the right place for this check (and
change).  Just next to file_update_time() call. You get proper filesystem
freezing protection etc. As Ted properly mentions filemap_page_mkwrite() is
one place you want to hook into but quite a few filesystems (most notably
ext4, xfs, btrfs) overload ->page_mkwrite() callbacks to their own
functions so each filesystem that does this needs to be updated
separately...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@suse.com>
SUSE Labs, CR