[PATCH 5/7] security: Restrict security attribute updates for userns mounts

Seth Forshee
2015-07-15T19:48:01Z

Respecting security labels for mounts from user namespaces may
allow unprivileged users to introduce security labels into the
system. To stop this from happening prevent calling the
inode_post_setxattr, inode_setsecurity, inode_notifysecctx, and
inode_setsecctx hooks when s_user_ns != init_user_ns. There's no
purpose in actually blocking setting of these xattrs, as (for rw
mounts at least) the user must have write access to the
underlying filesystem and could set the xattrs by other means.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
---
security/security.c | 10 +++++++++-
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 062f3c997fdc..980710baa8f9 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -653,7 +653,9 @@ void security_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
{
if (unlikely(IS_PRIVATE(d_backing_inode(dentry))))
return;
- call_void_hook(inode_post_setxattr, dentry, name, value, size, flags);
+ if (dentry->d_inode->i_sb->s_user_ns == &init_user_ns)
+ call_void_hook(inode_post_setxattr, dentry, name, value, size,
+ flags);
evm_inode_post_setxattr(dentry, name, value, size);
}

@@ -712,6 +714,8 @@ int security_inode_getsecurity(const struct inode *inode, const char *name, void

int security_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
{
+ if (inode->i_sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
if (unlikely(IS_PRIVATE(inode)))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
return call_int_hook(inode_setsecurity, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode, name,
@@ -1168,12 +1172,16 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_release_secctx);

int security_inode_notifysecctx(struct inode *inode, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen)
{
+ if (inode->i_sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
return call_int_hook(inode_notifysecctx, 0, inode, ctx, ctxlen);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_notifysecctx);

int security_inode_setsecctx(struct dentry *dentry, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen)
{
+ if (dentry->d_inode->i_sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns)
+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
return call_int_hook(inode_setsecctx, 0, dentry, ctx, ctxlen);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_setsecctx);
--
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