Re: [RFC PATCH 4/4] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks

["Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>]

Quoting miklos@szeredi.hu (miklos@szeredi.hu):
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> 
> Add a new filesystem flag, that results in the VFS not checking if the
> current process has enough privileges to do an mknod().
> 
> This is needed on filesystems, where an unprivileged user may be able
> to create a device node, without causing security problems.
> 
> One such example is "mountlo" a loopback mount utility implemented
> with fuse and UML, which runs as an unprivileged userspace process.
> In this case the user does in fact have the right to create device
> nodes within the filesystem image, as long as the user has write
> access to the image.  Since the filesystem is mounted with "nodev",
> adding device nodes is not a security concern.

Could we enforce at do_new_mount() that if
type->fs_flags&FS_MKNOD_CHECKS_PERM then mnt_flags |= MS_NODEV?

> This feature is basically "fuse-only", so it does not make sense to
> change the semantics of ->mknod().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> ---
> 
> Index: linux/fs/namei.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/fs/namei.c	2007-08-09 16:49:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/fs/namei.c	2007-08-09 16:49:12.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1921,7 +1921,8 @@ int vfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct 
>  	if (error)
>  		return error;
>  
> -	if ((S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode)) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD))
> +	if (!(dir->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_MKNOD_CHECKS_PERM) &&
> +	    (S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode)) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
>  	if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->mknod)
> Index: linux/include/linux/fs.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h	2007-08-09 16:49:07.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/include/linux/fs.h	2007-08-09 16:49:12.000000000 +0200
> @@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable;
>  #define FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA 2
>  #define FS_HAS_SUBTYPE 4
>  #define FS_SAFE 8		/* Safe to mount by unprivileged users */
> +#define FS_MKNOD_CHECKS_PERM 16	/* FS checks if device creation is allowed */
>  #define FS_REVAL_DOT	16384	/* Check the paths ".", ".." for staleness */
>  #define FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE	32768	/* FS will handle d_move()
>  					 * during rename() internally.
> 
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