From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lersek@redhat.com
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Pietro Borrello <borrello@diag.uniroma1.it>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] net: tun_chr_open(): set sk_uid from current_fsuid()
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:42:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230731164237.48365-2-lersek@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230731164237.48365-1-lersek@redhat.com>
Commit a096ccca6e50 initializes the "sk_uid" field in the protocol socket
(struct sock) from the "/dev/net/tun" device node's owner UID. Per
original commit 86741ec25462 ("net: core: Add a UID field to struct
sock.", 2016-11-04), that's wrong: the idea is to cache the UID of the
userspace process that creates the socket. Commit 86741ec25462 mentions
socket() and accept(); with "tun", the action that creates the socket is
open("/dev/net/tun").
Therefore the device node's owner UID is irrelevant. In most cases,
"/dev/net/tun" will be owned by root, so in practice, commit a096ccca6e50
has no observable effect:
- before, "sk_uid" would be zero, due to undefined behavior
(CVE-2023-1076),
- after, "sk_uid" would be zero, due to "/dev/net/tun" being owned by root.
What matters is the (fs)UID of the process performing the open(), so cache
that in "sk_uid".
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo@google.com>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Pietro Borrello <borrello@diag.uniroma1.it>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a096ccca6e50 ("tun: tun_chr_open(): correctly initialize socket uid")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173435
Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
---
drivers/net/tun.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index d75456adc62a..25f0191df00b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -3469,7 +3469,7 @@ static int tun_chr_open(struct inode *inode, struct file * file)
tfile->socket.file = file;
tfile->socket.ops = &tun_socket_ops;
- sock_init_data_uid(&tfile->socket, &tfile->sk, inode->i_uid);
+ sock_init_data_uid(&tfile->socket, &tfile->sk, current_fsuid());
tfile->sk.sk_write_space = tun_sock_write_space;
tfile->sk.sk_sndbuf = INT_MAX;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-31 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-31 16:42 [PATCH 0/2] tun/tap: set sk_uid from current_fsuid() Laszlo Ersek
2023-07-31 16:42 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2023-07-31 16:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: tap_open(): " Laszlo Ersek
2023-08-03 16:43 ` [PATCH 0/2] tun/tap: " Jakub Kicinski
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