Re: [PATCH 6/7] selinux: Ignore security labels on user namespace mounts

Stephen Smalley
2015-07-16T13:24:37Z

On 07/15/2015 03:46 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Unprivileged users should not be able to supply security labels
> in filesystems, nor should they be able to supply security
> contexts in unprivileged mounts. For any mount where s_user_ns is
> not init_user_ns, force the use of SECURITY_FS_USE_NONE behavior
> and return EPERM if any contexts are supplied in the mount
> options.
>
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>

I think this is obsoleted by the subsequent discussion, but just for the
record: this patch would cause the files in the userns mount to be left
with the "unlabeled" label, and therefore under typical policies,
completely inaccessible to any process in a confined domain.

> ---
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 459e71ddbc9d..eeb71e45ab82 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -732,6 +732,19 @@ static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
> !strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "pstore"))
> sbsec->flags |= SE_SBGENFS;
>
> + /*
> + * If this is a user namespace mount, no contexts are allowed
> + * on the command line and security labels mus be ignored.
> + */
> + if (sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns) {
> + if (context_sid || fscontext_sid || rootcontext_sid ||
> + defcontext_sid)
> + return -EPERM;
> + sbsec->behavior = SECURITY_FS_USE_NONE;
> + goto out_set_opts;
> + }
> +
> +
> if (!sbsec->behavior) {
> /*
> * Determine the labeling behavior to use for this
> @@ -813,6 +826,7 @@ static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
> sbsec->def_sid = defcontext_sid;
> }
>
> +out_set_opts:
> rc = sb_finish_set_opts(sb);
> out:
> mutex_unlock(&sbsec->lock);
>