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Unverified Commit a775ee4f authored by Alessio Balsini's avatar Alessio Balsini Committed by Hridaya Prajapati
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FROMLIST: fuse: Use daemon creds in passthrough mode

When using FUSE passthrough, read/write operations are directly
forwarded to the lower file system file through VFS, but there is no
guarantee that the process that is triggering the request has the right
permissions to access the lower file system. This would cause the
read/write access to fail.

In passthrough file systems, where the FUSE daemon is responsible for
the enforcement of the lower file system access policies, often happens
that the process dealing with the FUSE file system doesn't have access
to the lower file system.
Being the FUSE daemon in charge of implementing the FUSE file
operations, that in the case of read/write operations usually simply
results in the copy of memory buffers from/to the lower file system
respectively, these operations are executed with the FUSE daemon
privileges.

This patch adds a reference to the FUSE daemon credentials, referenced
at FUSE_DEV_IOC_PASSTHROUGH_OPEN ioctl() time so that they can be used
to temporarily raise the user credentials when accessing lower file
system files in passthrough.
The process accessing the FUSE file with passthrough enabled temporarily
receives the privileges of the FUSE daemon while performing read/write
operations. Similar behavior is implemented in overlayfs.
These privileges will be reverted as soon as the IO operation completes.
This feature does not provide any higher security privileges to those
processes accessing the FUSE file system with passthrough enabled. This
is because it is still the FUSE daemon responsible for enabling or not
the passthrough feature at file open time, and should enable the feature
only after appropriate access policy checks.

Bug: 179164095
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210125153057.3623715-8-balsini@android.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlessio Balsini <balsini@android.com>
Change-Id: Idb4f03a2ce7c536691e5eaf8fadadfcf002e1677
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlessio Balsini <balsini@google.com>
parent b5eead7c
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