[PATCH 1/6] cgroup: Use open-time credentials for process migraton perm checks

Tejun Heo
2021-12-09T21:47:21Z

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 credentials 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 both cgroup2 and cgroup1 process migration interfaces to
use the credentials saved at the time of open (file->f_cred) instead of
current's.

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-v1.c | 7 ++++---
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 9 ++++++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
index 81c9e0685948..0e7369103ba6 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
@@ -504,10 +504,11 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup1_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
goto out_unlock;

/*
- * Even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we only
- * need to check permissions on one of them.
+ * Even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we only need
+ * to check permissions on one of them. Check permissions using the
+ * credentials from file open to protect against inherited fd attacks.
*/
- cred = current_cred();
+ cred = of->file->f_cred;
tcred = get_task_cred(task);
if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) &&
!uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) &&
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 919194de39c8..2632e46da1d4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -4892,6 +4892,7 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
{
struct cgroup *src_cgrp, *dst_cgrp;
struct task_struct *task;
+ const struct cred *saved_cred;
ssize_t ret;
bool locked;

@@ -4909,9 +4910,15 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
src_cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(task, &cgrp_dfl_root);
spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock);

- /* process and thread migrations follow same delegation rule */
+ /*
+ * Process and thread migrations follow same delegation rule. Check
+ * permissions using the credentials from file open to protect against
+ * inherited fd attacks.
+ */
+ saved_cred = override_creds(of->file->f_cred);
ret = cgroup_attach_permissions(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp,
of->file->f_path.dentry->d_sb, threadgroup);
+ revert_creds(saved_cred);
if (ret)
goto out_finish;

--
2.34.1