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Commit bfedb589 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman
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mm: Add a user_ns owner to mm_struct and fix ptrace permission checks 



During exec dumpable is cleared if the file that is being executed is
not readable by the user executing the file.  A bug in
ptrace_may_access allows reading the file if the executable happens to
enter into a subordinate user namespace (aka clone(CLONE_NEWUSER),
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER), or setns(fd, CLONE_NEWUSER).

This problem is fixed with only necessary userspace breakage by adding
a user namespace owner to mm_struct, captured at the time of exec, so
it is clear in which user namespace CAP_SYS_PTRACE must be present in
to be able to safely give read permission to the executable.

The function ptrace_may_access is modified to verify that the ptracer
has CAP_SYS_ADMIN in task->mm->user_ns instead of task->cred->user_ns.
This ensures that if the task changes it's cred into a subordinate
user namespace it does not become ptraceable.

The function ptrace_attach is modified to only set PT_PTRACE_CAP when
CAP_SYS_PTRACE is held over task->mm->user_ns.  The intent of
PT_PTRACE_CAP is to be a flag to note that whatever permission changes
the task might go through the tracer has sufficient permissions for
it not to be an issue.  task->cred->user_ns is always the same
as or descendent of mm->user_ns.  Which guarantees that having
CAP_SYS_PTRACE over mm->user_ns is the worst case for the tasks
credentials.

To prevent regressions mm->dumpable and mm->user_ns are not considered
when a task has no mm.  As simply failing ptrace_may_attach causes
regressions in privileged applications attempting to read things
such as /proc/<pid>/stat

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: default avatarCyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Fixes: 8409cca7 ("userns: allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces")
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
parent 9c763584

include/linux/mm_types.h

+1 −0
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@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ struct mm_struct { 
	 */

	struct task_struct __rcu *owner;

#endif

	struct user_namespace *user_ns;



	/* store ref to file /proc/<pid>/exe symlink points to */

	struct file __rcu *exe_file;

kernel/fork.c

+6 −3
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@@ -745,7 +745,8 @@ static void mm_init_owner(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) 
#endif

}



static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p)

static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,

	struct user_namespace *user_ns)

{

	mm->mmap = NULL;

	mm->mm_rb = RB_ROOT;
@@ -785,6 +786,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p) 
	if (init_new_context(p, mm))

		goto fail_nocontext;



	mm->user_ns = get_user_ns(user_ns);

	return mm;



fail_nocontext:
@@ -830,7 +832,7 @@ struct mm_struct *mm_alloc(void) 
		return NULL;



	memset(mm, 0, sizeof(*mm));

	return mm_init(mm, current);

	return mm_init(mm, current, current_user_ns());

}



/*
@@ -845,6 +847,7 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm) 
	destroy_context(mm);

	mmu_notifier_mm_destroy(mm);

	check_mm(mm);

	put_user_ns(mm->user_ns);

	free_mm(mm);

}

EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__mmdrop);
@@ -1126,7 +1129,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *dup_mm(struct task_struct *tsk) 


	memcpy(mm, oldmm, sizeof(*mm));



	if (!mm_init(mm, tsk))

	if (!mm_init(mm, tsk, mm->user_ns))

		goto fail_nomem;



	err = dup_mmap(mm, oldmm);

kernel/ptrace.c

+11 −15
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@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ static int ptrace_has_cap(struct user_namespace *ns, unsigned int mode) 
static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)

{

	const struct cred *cred = current_cred(), *tcred;

	int dumpable = 0;

	struct mm_struct *mm;

	kuid_t caller_uid;

	kgid_t caller_gid;
@@ -271,16 +271,11 @@ static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode) 
	return -EPERM;

ok:

	rcu_read_unlock();

	smp_rmb();

	if (task->mm)

		dumpable = get_dumpable(task->mm);

	rcu_read_lock();

	if (dumpable != SUID_DUMP_USER &&

	    !ptrace_has_cap(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, mode)) {

		rcu_read_unlock();

	mm = task->mm;

	if (mm &&

	    ((get_dumpable(mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER) &&

	     !ptrace_has_cap(mm->user_ns, mode)))

	    return -EPERM;

	}

	rcu_read_unlock();



	return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);

}
@@ -331,6 +326,11 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request, 


	task_lock(task);

	retval = __ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_REALCREDS);

	if (!retval) {

		struct mm_struct *mm = task->mm;

		if (mm && ns_capable(mm->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))

			flags |= PT_PTRACE_CAP;

	}

	task_unlock(task);

	if (retval)

		goto unlock_creds;
@@ -344,10 +344,6 @@ static int ptrace_attach(struct task_struct *task, long request, 


	if (seize)

		flags |= PT_SEIZED;

	rcu_read_lock();

	if (ns_capable(__task_cred(task)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE))

		flags |= PT_PTRACE_CAP;

	rcu_read_unlock();

	task->ptrace = flags;



	__ptrace_link(task, current);

mm/init-mm.c

+2 −0
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@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ 
#include <linux/cpumask.h>



#include <linux/atomic.h>

#include <linux/user_namespace.h>

#include <asm/pgtable.h>

#include <asm/mmu.h>
@@ -21,5 +22,6 @@ struct mm_struct init_mm = { 
	.mmap_sem	= __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(init_mm.mmap_sem),

	.page_table_lock =  __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.page_table_lock),

	.mmlist		= LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist),

	.user_ns	= &init_user_ns,

	INIT_MM_CONTEXT(init_mm)

};