[PATCH 3/6] cgroup: Use open-time cgroup namespace for process migration perm checks

Tejun Heo
2021-12-09T21:47:30Z

cgroup process migration permission checks are performed at write time as
whether a given operation is allowed or not is dependent on the content of
the write - the PID. This currently uses current's cgroup namespace which is
a potential security weakness as it may allow scenarios where a less
privileged process tricks a more privileged one into writing into a fd that
it created.

This patch makes cgroup remember the cgroup namespace at the time of open
and uses it for migration permission checks instad of current's. Note that
this only applies to cgroup2 as cgroup1 doesn't have namespace support.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
---
kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h | 2 ++
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h
index 8f681f14828c..eb0585245b07 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ static inline struct cgroup_fs_context *cgroup_fc2context(struct fs_context *fc)
}

struct cgroup_file_ctx {
+ struct cgroup_namespace *ns;
+
union {
struct {
struct css_task_iter *it;
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 2992eb7e8244..a3292558e96c 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -3822,14 +3822,19 @@ static int cgroup_file_open(struct kernfs_open_file *of)
ctx = kzalloc(sizeof(*ctx), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ctx)
return -ENOMEM;
+
+ ctx->ns = current->nsproxy->cgroup_ns;
+ get_cgroup_ns(ctx->ns);
of->priv = ctx;

if (!cft->open)
return 0;

ret = cft->open(of);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ put_cgroup_ns(ctx->ns);
kfree(ctx);
+ }
return ret;
}

@@ -3840,13 +3845,14 @@ static void cgroup_file_release(struct kernfs_open_file *of)

if (cft->release)
cft->release(of);
+ put_cgroup_ns(ctx->ns);
kfree(ctx);
}

static ssize_t cgroup_file_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
{
- struct cgroup_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->cgroup_ns;
+ struct cgroup_file_ctx *ctx = of->priv;
struct cgroup *cgrp = of->kn->parent->priv;
struct cftype *cft = of_cft(of);
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
@@ -3863,7 +3869,7 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_file_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
*/
if ((cgrp->root->flags & CGRP_ROOT_NS_DELEGATE) &&
!(cft->flags & CFTYPE_NS_DELEGATABLE) &&
- ns != &init_cgroup_ns && ns->root_cset->dfl_cgrp == cgrp)
+ ctx->ns != &init_cgroup_ns && ctx->ns->root_cset->dfl_cgrp == cgrp)
return -EPERM;

if (cft->write)
@@ -4859,9 +4865,9 @@ static int cgroup_may_write(const struct cgroup *cgrp, struct super_block *sb)

static int cgroup_procs_write_permission(struct cgroup *src_cgrp,
struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
- struct super_block *sb)
+ struct super_block *sb,
+ struct cgroup_namespace *ns)
{
- struct cgroup_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->cgroup_ns;
struct cgroup *com_cgrp = src_cgrp;
int ret;

@@ -4890,11 +4896,12 @@ static int cgroup_procs_write_permission(struct cgroup *src_cgrp,

static int cgroup_attach_permissions(struct cgroup *src_cgrp,
struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
- struct super_block *sb, bool threadgroup)
+ struct super_block *sb, bool threadgroup,
+ struct cgroup_namespace *ns)
{
int ret = 0;

- ret = cgroup_procs_write_permission(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp, sb);
+ ret = cgroup_procs_write_permission(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp, sb, ns);
if (ret)
return ret;

@@ -4911,6 +4918,7 @@ static int cgroup_attach_permissions(struct cgroup *src_cgrp,
static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
bool threadgroup)
{
+ struct cgroup_file_ctx *ctx = of->priv;
struct cgroup *src_cgrp, *dst_cgrp;
struct task_struct *task;
const struct cred *saved_cred;
@@ -4938,7 +4946,8 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
*/
saved_cred = override_creds(of->file->f_cred);
ret = cgroup_attach_permissions(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp,
- of->file->f_path.dentry->d_sb, threadgroup);
+ of->file->f_path.dentry->d_sb,
+ threadgroup, ctx->ns);
revert_creds(saved_cred);
if (ret)
goto out_finish;
@@ -6158,7 +6167,8 @@ static int cgroup_css_set_fork(struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
goto err;

ret = cgroup_attach_permissions(cset->dfl_cgrp, dst_cgrp, sb,
- !(kargs->flags & CLONE_THREAD));
+ !(kargs->flags & CLONE_THREAD),
+ current->nsproxy->cgroup_ns);
if (ret)
goto err;

--
2.34.1