[PATCH 3/7] fs: Ignore file caps in mounts from other user namespaces

Seth Forshee
2015-07-15T19:48:48Z

Capability sets attached to files must be ignored except in the
user namespaces where the mounter is privileged, i.e. s_user_ns
and its descendants. Otherwise a vector exists for gaining
privileges in namespaces where a user is not already privileged.

Add a new helper function, in_user_ns(), to test whether a user
namespace is the same as or a descendant of another namespace.
Use this helper to determine whether a file's capability set
should be applied to the caps constructed during exec.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
---
include/linux/user_namespace.h | 8 ++++++++
kernel/user_namespace.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
security/commoncap.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index 8297e5b341d8..a43faa727124 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ extern ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t,
extern ssize_t proc_setgroups_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
extern int proc_setgroups_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v);
extern bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns);
+extern bool in_userns(const struct user_namespace *ns,
+ const struct user_namespace *target_ns);
#else

static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
@@ -100,6 +102,12 @@ static inline bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
{
return true;
}
+
+static inline bool in_userns(const struct user_namespace *ns,
+ const struct user_namespace *target_ns)
+{
+ return true;
+}
#endif

#endif /* _LINUX_USER_H */
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 4109f8320684..2b043876d5f0 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -944,6 +944,20 @@ bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
return allowed;
}

+/*
+ * Returns true if @ns is the same namespace as or a descendant of
+ * @target_ns.
+ */
+bool in_userns(const struct user_namespace *ns,
+ const struct user_namespace *target_ns)
+{
+ for (; ns; ns = ns->parent) {
+ if (ns == target_ns)
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
+}
+
static inline struct user_namespace *to_user_ns(struct ns_common *ns)
{
return container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns);
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index d103f5a4043d..175ab497e810 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool *effective, bool *has_c

if (bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)
return 0;
+ if (!in_userns(current_user_ns(), bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_user_ns))
+ return 0;

rc = get_vfs_caps_from_disk(bprm->file->f_path.dentry, &vcaps);
if (rc < 0) {
--
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