fs/exec: switch timens when a task gets a new mm

Changing a time namespace requires remapping a vvar page, so we don't want
to allow doing that if any other tasks can use the same mm.

Currently, we install a time namespace when a task is created with a new
vm. exec() is another case when a task gets a new mm and so it can switch
a time namespace safely, but it isn't handled now.

One more issue of the current interface is that clone() with CLONE_VM isn't
allowed if the current task has unshared a time namespace
(timens_for_children doesn't match the current timens).

Both these issues make some inconvenience for users. For example, Alexey
and Florian reported that posix_spawn() uses vfork+exec and this pattern
doesn't work with time namespaces due to the both described issues.
LXC needed to workaround the exec() issue by calling setns.

In the commit 133e2d3e81de5 ("fs/exec: allow to unshare a time namespace on
vfork+exec"), we tried to fix these issues with minimal impact on UAPI. But
it adds extra complexity and some undesirable side effects. Eric suggested
fixing the issues properly because here are all the reasons to suppose that
there are no users that depend on the old behavior.

Cc: Alexey Izbyshev <izbyshev@ispras.ru>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Origin-author: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921003120.209637-1-avagin@google.com

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 08969f5aa38d..44224a9b004c 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2043,15 +2043,6 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * If the new process will be in a different time namespace
-	 * do not allow it to share VM or a thread group with the forking task.
-	 */
-	if (clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM)) {
-		if (nsp->time_ns != nsp->time_ns_for_children)
-			return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
-	}
-
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_PIDFD) {
 		/*
 		 * - CLONE_DETACHED is blocked so that we can potentially
diff --git a/kernel/nsproxy.c b/kernel/nsproxy.c
index eec72ca962e2..a487ff24129b 100644
--- a/kernel/nsproxy.c
+++ b/kernel/nsproxy.c
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (likely(!(flags & (CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |
 			      CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET |
 			      CLONE_NEWCGROUP | CLONE_NEWTIME)))) {
-		if (likely(old_ns->time_ns_for_children == old_ns->time_ns)) {
+		if ((flags & CLONE_VM) ||
+		    likely(old_ns->time_ns_for_children == old_ns->time_ns)) {
 			get_nsproxy(old_ns);
 			return 0;
 		}
@@ -179,7 +180,8 @@ int copy_namespaces(unsigned long flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (IS_ERR(new_ns))
 		return  PTR_ERR(new_ns);
 
-	timens_on_fork(new_ns, tsk);
+	if ((flags & CLONE_VM) == 0)
+		timens_on_fork(new_ns, tsk);
 
 	tsk->nsproxy = new_ns;
 	return 0;
@@ -254,6 +256,23 @@ void exit_task_namespaces(struct task_struct *p)
 	switch_task_namespaces(p, NULL);
 }
 
+int exec_task_namespaces(void)
+{
+	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
+	struct nsproxy *new;
+
+	if (tsk->nsproxy->time_ns_for_children == tsk->nsproxy->time_ns)
+		return 0;
+
+	new = create_new_namespaces(0, tsk, current_user_ns(), tsk->fs);
+	if (IS_ERR(new))
+		return PTR_ERR(new);
+
+	timens_on_fork(new, tsk);
+	switch_task_namespaces(tsk, new);
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int check_setns_flags(unsigned long flags)
 {
 	if (!flags || (flags & ~(CLONE_NEWNS | CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC |