Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] fuse: Add support for mounts from pid/user namespaces

Seth Forshee
2014-10-06T16:31:49Z

On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 04:00:06PM +0000, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Seth Forshee (seth.forshee@canonical.com):
> ...
> > After digging into this some more I think I agree with you. At minimum
> > letting users insert arbitrary xattrs via fuse bypasses the usual
> > restrictions on setting xattrs. This is probably mitigated by the
> > limited visibility of the fuse mount in the usual case for unprivileged
> > users, but it does seem like a bad idea fundamentally.
> >
> > So I was thinking of something like the following (untested) to let root
> > in the host support privileged xattrs while limiting unprivileged users
> > to user.*. Miklos, does this look acceptable or would you prefer
> > something different?
>
> So it won't be possible to set capabilities in a fuse fs? This may
> be necessary, but it will prevent i.e. live-iso builders from writing
> for instance a CAP_NET_RAW=pe (instead of setuid-root) /bin/ping in the
> iso.

cap_inode_setxattr() already requires CAP_SETFCAP in the host to do
this, which I'd think root in in an unpriv container wouldn't have, so
aren't you prevented from doing so already? I suppose the LSM could
override this restriction though.

> > diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
> > index e3123bfbc711..1a3ee5663dea 100644
> > --- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
> > @@ -1882,6 +1882,10 @@ static int fuse_setxattr(struct dentry *entry, const char *name,
> > if (fc->no_setxattr)
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > + if (!(fc->flags & FUSE_PRIV_XATTRS) &&
> > + strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN) != 0)
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > req = fuse_get_req_nopages(fc);
> > if (IS_ERR(req))
> > return PTR_ERR(req);
> > @@ -1925,6 +1929,10 @@ static ssize_t fuse_getxattr(struct dentry *entry, const char *name,
> > if (fc->no_getxattr)
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >
> > + if (!(fc->flags & FUSE_PRIV_XATTRS) &&
> > + strncmp(name, XATTR_USER_PREFIX, XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN) != 0)
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > req = fuse_get_req_nopages(fc);
> > if (IS_ERR(req))
> > return PTR_ERR(req);
> > diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> > index 81187ba04e4a..bc0fd14b962a 100644
> > --- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
> > @@ -46,6 +46,11 @@
> > doing the mount will be allowed to access the filesystem */
> > #define FUSE_ALLOW_OTHER (1 << 1)
> >
> > +/** If the FUSE_PRIV_XATTRS flag is given, then xattrs outside the
> > + user.* namespace are allowed. This option is only allowed for
> > + system root. */
> > +#define FUSE_PRIV_XATTRS (1 << 2)
> > +
> > /** Number of page pointers embedded in fuse_req */
> > #define FUSE_REQ_INLINE_PAGES 1
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
> > index b88b5a780228..6716b56d43a1 100644
> > --- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
> > +++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
> > @@ -493,6 +493,7 @@ enum {
> > OPT_ALLOW_OTHER,
> > OPT_MAX_READ,
> > OPT_BLKSIZE,
> > + OPT_PRIV_XATTRS,
> > OPT_ERR
> > };
> >
> > @@ -505,6 +506,7 @@ static const match_table_t tokens = {
> > {OPT_ALLOW_OTHER, "allow_other"},
> > {OPT_MAX_READ, "max_read=%u"},
> > {OPT_BLKSIZE, "blksize=%u"},
> > + {OPT_PRIV_XATTRS, "priv_xattr"},
> > {OPT_ERR, NULL}
> > };
> >
> > @@ -592,6 +594,12 @@ static int parse_fuse_opt(char *opt, struct fuse_mount_data *d, int is_bdev)
> > d->blksize = value;
> > break;
> >
> > + case OPT_PRIV_XATTRS:
> > + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> > + return 0;
> > + d->flags |= FUSE_PRIV_XATTRS;
> > + break;
> > +
> > default:
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> --
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