[PATCH review 08/18] groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks

Eric W. Biederman
2014-12-12T22:48:19Z

Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their
permission checking has diverged. Add a common function so that
they may all share the same permission checking code.

This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks
and adds a helper to avoid this in the future.

A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cred.h | 1 +
kernel/groups.c | 9 ++++++++-
kernel/uid16.c | 2 +-
4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
index ca38139423ae..437e61159279 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_linux.c
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE2(s390_setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, u16 __user *, grouplis
struct group_info *group_info;
int retval;

- if (!capable(CAP_SETGID))
+ if (!may_setgroups())
return -EPERM;
if ((unsigned)gidsetsize > NGROUPS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/include/linux/cred.h b/include/linux/cred.h
index b2d0820837c4..2fb2ca2127ed 100644
--- a/include/linux/cred.h
+++ b/include/linux/cred.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ extern void groups_free(struct group_info *);
extern int set_current_groups(struct group_info *);
extern void set_groups(struct cred *, struct group_info *);
extern int groups_search(const struct group_info *, kgid_t);
+extern bool may_setgroups(void);

/* access the groups "array" with this macro */
#define GROUP_AT(gi, i) \
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index 451698f86cfa..02d8a251c476 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -213,6 +213,13 @@ out:
return i;
}

+bool may_setgroups(void)
+{
+ struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();
+
+ return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID);
+}
+
/*
* SMP: Our groups are copy-on-write. We can set them safely
* without another task interfering.
@@ -223,7 +230,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups, int, gidsetsize, gid_t __user *, grouplist)
struct group_info *group_info;
int retval;

- if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SETGID))
+ if (!may_setgroups())
return -EPERM;
if ((unsigned)gidsetsize > NGROUPS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
diff --git a/kernel/uid16.c b/kernel/uid16.c
index 602e5bbbceff..d58cc4d8f0d1 100644
--- a/kernel/uid16.c
+++ b/kernel/uid16.c
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(setgroups16, int, gidsetsize, old_gid_t __user *, grouplist)
struct group_info *group_info;
int retval;

- if (!ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SETGID))
+ if (!may_setgroups())
return -EPERM;
if ((unsigned)gidsetsize > NGROUPS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
--
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