Re: [PATCH v4 14/16] ima: Use mac_admin_ns_capable() to check corresponding capability

Christian Brauner
2021-12-08T12:40:40Z

On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 03:21:25PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> Use mac_admin_ns_capable() to check corresponding capability to allow
> read/write IMA policy without CAP_SYS_ADMIN but with CAP_MAC_ADMIN.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Semakin <denis.semakin@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> include/linux/capability.h | 6 ++++++
> security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
> index 65efb74c3585..991579178f32 100644
> --- a/include/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
> @@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ static inline bool checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns)
> ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> }
>
> +static inline bool mac_admin_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns)
> +{
> + return ns_capable(ns, CAP_MAC_ADMIN) ||
> + ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> +}
> +
> /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */
> int get_vfs_caps_from_disk(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
> const struct dentry *dentry,
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> index 0e582ceecc7f..a749a3e79304 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ static int ima_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
> #else
> if ((filp->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY)
> return -EACCES;
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + if (!mac_admin_ns_capable(ns->user_ns))
> return -EPERM;

Hm, couldn't this rather just be:

if (ns_capable(ns, CAP_MAC_ADMIN) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))

so we don't carry CAP_SYS_ADMIN as an alternative way for ima into user
namespaces as well? This way containers don't need to drop CAP_SYS_ADMIN
just to prevent mac policy from being altered. But that's more on the
LSM side of questions.