lwn.git/kernel/capability.c, branch docs-6.4-2

capability: just use a 'u64' instead of a 'u32[2]' array

2023-03-01T18:01:22+00:00

Back in 2008 we extended the capability bits from 32 to 64, and we did it by extending the single 32-bit capability word from one word to an array of two words. It was then obfuscated by hiding the "2" behind two macro expansions, with the reasoning being that maybe it gets extended further some day. That reasoning may have been valid at the time, but the last thing we want to do is to extend the capability set any more. And the array of values not only causes source code oddities (with loops to deal with it), but also results in worse code generation. It's a lose-lose situation. So just change the 'u32[2]' into a 'u64' and be done with it. We still have to deal with the fact that the user space interface is designed around an array of these 32-bit values, but that was the case before too, since the array layouts were different (ie user space doesn't use an array of 32-bit values for individual capability masks, but an array of 32-bit slices of multiple masks). So that marshalling of data is actually simplified too, even if it does remain somewhat obscure and odd. This was all triggered by my reaction to the new "cap_isidentical()" introduced recently. By just using a saner data structure, it went from unsigned __capi; CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) { if (a.cap[__capi] != b.cap[__capi]) return false; } return true; to just being return a.val == b.val; instead. Which is rather more obvious both to humans and to compilers. Cc: Mateusz Guzik Cc: Casey Schaufler Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Al Viro Cc: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs: port i_{g,u}id_into_vfs{g,u}id() to mnt_idmap

2023-01-19T08:24:29+00:00

Convert to struct mnt_idmap. Remove legacy file_mnt_user_ns() and mnt_user_ns(). Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap. Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for bugs. Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems only operate on struct mnt_idmap. Acked-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

fs: port privilege checking helpers to mnt_idmap

2023-01-19T08:24:29+00:00

Convert to struct mnt_idmap. Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in 256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts"). This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap. Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for bugs. Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems only operate on struct mnt_idmap. Acked-by: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

caps: use type safe idmapping helpers

2022-10-26T08:02:39+00:00

We already ported most parts and filesystems over for v6.0 to the new vfs{g,u}id_t type and associated helpers for v6.0. Convert the remaining places so we can remove all the old helpers. This is a non-functional change. Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft)

xfs: don't generate selinux audit messages for capability testing

2022-03-09T18:32:06+00:00

There are a few places where we test the current process' capability set to decide if we're going to be more or less generous with resource acquisition for a system call. If the process doesn't have the capability, we can continue the call, albeit in a degraded mode. These are /not/ the actual security decisions, so it's not proper to use capable(), which (in certain selinux setups) causes audit messages to get logged. Switch them to has_capability_noaudit. Fixes: 7317a03df703f ("xfs: refactor inode ownership change transaction/inode/quota allocation idiom") Fixes: ea9a46e1c4925 ("xfs: only return detailed fsmap info if the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN") Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Dave Chinner Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen

capability: handle idmapped mounts

2021-01-24T13:27:16+00:00

In order to determine whether a caller holds privilege over a given inode the capability framework exposes the two helpers privileged_wrt_inode_uidgid() and capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(). The former verifies that the inode has a mapping in the caller's user namespace and the latter additionally verifies that the caller has the requested capability in their current user namespace. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks are identical to non-idmapped inodes. If the initial user namespace is passed all operations are a nop so non-idmapped mounts will not see a change in behavior. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-5-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Howells Cc: Al Viro Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: James Morris Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

LSM: Signal to SafeSetID when setting group IDs

2020-10-13T16:17:34+00:00

For SafeSetID to properly gate set*gid() calls, it needs to know whether ns_capable() is being called from within a sys_set*gid() function or is being called from elsewhere in the kernel. This allows SafeSetID to deny CAP_SETGID to restricted groups when they are attempting to use the capability for code paths other than updating GIDs (e.g. setting up userns GID mappings). This is the identical approach to what is currently done for CAP_SETUID. NOTE: We also add signaling to SafeSetID from the setgroups() syscall, as we have future plans to restrict a process' ability to set supplementary groups in addition to what is added in this series for restricting setting of the primary group. Signed-off-by: Thomas Cedeno Signed-off-by: Micah Morton

treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

2020-08-23T22:36:59+00:00

Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary fall-through markings when it is the case. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.7/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

LSM: add SafeSetID module that gates setid calls

2019-01-25T19:22:43+00:00

This change ensures that the set*uid family of syscalls in kernel/sys.c (setreuid, setuid, setresuid, setfsuid) all call ns_capable_common with the CAP_OPT_INSETID flag, so capability checks in the security_capable hook can know whether they are being called from within a set*uid syscall. This change is a no-op by itself, but is needed for the proposed SafeSetID LSM. Signed-off-by: Micah Morton Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: James Morris

capabilities:: annotate implicit fall through

2019-01-23T03:42:27+00:00

There is a plan to build the kernel with -Wimplicit-fallthrough and this place in the code produced a warning (W=1). In this particular case change put the fall through comment on a single line so as to match the regular expression expected by GCC. This commit remove the following warning: kernel/capability.c:95:3: warning: this statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=] Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre Signed-off-by: James Morris