Re: [PATCH 1/7] fs: Add user namesapace member to struct super_block

Seth Forshee
2015-08-07T18:57:58Z

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 11:35:31AM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 8/7/2015 7:32 AM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 09:20:29AM -0500, Seth Forshee wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 04:19:03PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>> Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>>> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:47:11PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>>>> Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Initially this will be used to eliminate the implicit MNT_NODEV
> >>>>>> flag for mounts from user namespaces. In the future it will also
> >>>>>> be used for translating ids and checking capabilities for
> >>>>>> filesystems mounted from user namespaces.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> s_user_ns is initialized in alloc_super() and is generally set to
> >>>>>> current_user_ns(). To avoid security and corruption issues, two
> >>>>>> additional mount checks are also added:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - do_new_mount() gains a check that the user has CAP_SYS_ADMIN
> >>>>>> in current_user_ns().
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> - sget() will fail with EBUSY when the filesystem it's looking
> >>>>>> for is already mounted from another user namespace.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> proc needs some special handling here. The user namespace of
> >>>>>> current isn't appropriate when forking as a result of clone (2)
> >>>>>> with CLONE_NEWPID|CLONE_NEWUSER, as it will make proc unmountable
> >>>>>> from within the new user namespace. Instead, the user namespace
> >>>>>> which owns the new pid namespace should be used. sget_userns() is
> >>>>>> added to allow passing of a user namespace other than that of
> >>>>>> current, and this is used by proc_mount(). sget() becomes a
> >>>>>> wrapper around sget_userns() which passes current_user_ns().
> >>>>> From bits of the previous conversation.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We need sget_userns(..., &init_user_ns) for sysfs. The sysfs
> >>>>> xattrs can travel from one mount of sysfs to another via the sysfs
> >>>>> backing store.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For tmpfs and any other filesystems we support mounting without
> >>>>> privilige that support xattrs. We need to identify them and
> >>>>> see if userspace is taking advantage of the ability to set
> >>>>> xattrs and file caps (unlikely). If they are we need to call
> >>>>> sget_userns(..., &init_user_ns) on those filesystems as well.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Possibly/Probably we should just do that for all of the interesting
> >>>>> filesystems to start with and then change back to an ordinary old sget
> >>>>> after we have done the testing and confirmed we will not be introducing
> >>>>> userspace regressions.
> >>>> I was reviewing everything in preparation for sending v2 patches, and I
> >>>> realized that doing this has an undesirable side effect. In patch 2 the
> >>>> implicit nodev is removed for unprivileged mounts, and instead s_user_ns
> >>>> is used to block opening devices in these mounts. When we set s_user_ns
> >>>> to &init_user_ns, it becomes possible to open device nodes from
> >>>> unprivileged mounts of these filesystems.
> >>>>
> >>>> This doesn't pose a real problem today. The only filesystems it will
> >>>> affect is sysfs, tmpfs, and ramfs (no others need s_user_ns =
> >>>> &init_user_ns for user namespace mounts), and all of these aren't
> >>>> problems. sysfs is okay because kernfs doesn't (currently?) allow device
> >>>> nodes, and a user would require CAP_MKNOD to create any device nodes in
> >>>> a tmpfs or ramfs mount.
> >>>>
> >>>> But for sysfs in particular it does mean that we will need to make sure
> >>>> that there's no way that device nodes could start appearing in an
> >>>> unprivileged mount.
> >>> Good point about nodev.
> >>>
> >>> For tmpfs and ramfs and security labels the smack policy of allowing but
> >>> filtering security labels mean smack once it has those bits will not
> >>> care which user namespace ramfs and tmpfs live in. The labels should
> >>> pretty much stay the same in any case.
> >> Smack does care which namespace ramfs and tmpfs are in. With the patch
> >> I've got right now, if s_user_ns != &init_user_ns and the label of an
> >> inode does not match that of the root inode then
> >> security_inode_permission() will return EACCES.
> >>
> >> So if something with CAP_MAC_ADMIN is changing security labels in such a
> >> mount, suddenly those inodes might become inaccessible. And while it may
> >> be unlikely that anyone is doing this it's impossible for me to prove
> >> that's the case.
> >>
> >>> If the same class of handling will also apply to selinux and those are
> >>> the only two security modules that apply labels than we can leave tmpfs
> >>> and ramfs with the security labels of whomever mounted them.
> >> For SELinux I now have a patch which applies mountpoint labeling to
> >> mounts for which s_user_ns != &init_user_ns. I'm less sure then with
> >> Smack how this behavior will differ from what happens today, but my
> >> understanding is that this means that the label of the mountpoint is
> >> used for all objects from that superblock. Afaik it does not have the
> >> Smack behavior of denying access to filesystem objects which have a
> >> different label in the backing store.
> >>
> >>> For sysfs things get a little more interesting. Assuming tmpfs and
> >>> ramfs don't need s_user_ns == &init_user_ns, sysfs may be fine operating
> >>> with possibly invalid securitly labels set on a different mount of
> >>> selinux. (I am wondering now how all of these labels work in the
> >>> context of nfs).
> >> If someone was using Smack to label sysfs then a mount with s_user_ns !=
> >> &init_user_ns is going to leave inaccessible anything without the same
> >> label as the process which performed the mount.
> >>
> >> Again with SELinux I'm less certain, but I think you could end up with a
> >> sysfs superblock that has mountpoint labeling, and thus any labels set
> >> in the mount in the init namespace would be ignored.
> >>
> >>> The worst case for sysfs is that we come up with a cousin of
> >>> SB_I_NO_EXEC say SB_I_NO_DEV.
> >> That idea occurred to me. Or else something that indicated to the
> >> security module that the filesystem has no user-controlled backing store
> >> which could be used to inject security labels, thus allowing us to set
> >> s_user_ns to a non-init namespace while still allowing standard MAC
> >> labeling behavior.
> >>
> >>> But at the moment I am hoping that limited label storage in a user
> >>> namespace as you and Casey have been talking about winds up being the
> >>> norm and then we can follow the standard rules for setting s_user_ns and
> >>> still preserve the current label setting behavior.
> >> Unfortunately I'm afraid that's not going to work out.
> > What I really meant here was that it wasn't going to work out for these
> > few filesystems. There's no reason why that couldn't be the norm moving
> > forward.
> >
> > Casey: Would you have a problem with special-casing Smack for these
> > filesystems? It's not ideal, but it avoids regressions for those
> > filesystems that can already be mounted in a user namespace with trusted
> > labels. Something like this (on top of the changes we've already
> > discussed).
>
> As badly as I want to run away screaming, I can't see a reason
> that this approach doesn't make sense. With no backing store there's
> no way the untrusted mounter can get untoward access to data, and
> the data isn't persistent. If there weren't already filesystem
> special casing in Smack I could object to that, but I've already
> started down that slope.
>
> So I'm not real happy, but I don't have a better solution.

Yeah, I understand. I had hoped there would be something we could look
at to distinguish these types of filesystems generically, but I couldn't
find anything. So short of adding some flag to the fs type or the
superblock, this was the best I could come up with.

Thanks,
Seth