31 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
    EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them
    onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

    Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

    -#include
    +#include

    This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
    will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     

14 Jan, 2011

1 commit

  • Currently on 64-bit arch the user_namespace is 2096 and when being
    kmalloc-ed it resides on a 4k slab wasting 2003 bytes.

    If we allocate a separate cache for it and reduce the hash size from 128
    to 64 chains the packaging becomes *much* better - the struct is 1072
    bytes and the hole between is 98 bytes.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/__initcall/module_init/]
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     

17 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • Define what happens when a we view a uid from one user_namespace
    in another user_namepece.

    - If the user namespaces are the same no mapping is necessary.

    - For most cases of difference use overflowuid and overflowgid,
    the uid and gid currently used for 16bit apis when we have a 32bit uid
    that does fit in 16bits. Effectively the situation is the same,
    we want to return a uid or gid that is not assigned to any user.

    - For the case when we happen to be mapping the uid or gid of the
    creator of the target user namespace use uid 0 and gid as confusing
    that user with root is not a problem.

    Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman
    Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Eric W. Biederman
     

22 May, 2010

1 commit

  • Of the three uses of kref_set in the kernel:

    One really should be kref_put as the code is letting go of a
    reference,
    Two really should be kref_init because the kref is being
    initialised.

    This suggests that making kref_set available encourages bad code.
    So fix the three uses and remove kref_set completely.

    Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
    Acked-by: Mimi Zohar
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    NeilBrown
     

28 Feb, 2009

1 commit

  • free_uid() and free_user_ns() are corecursive when CONFIG_USER_SCHED=n,
    but free_user_ns() is called from free_uid() by way of uid_hash_remove(),
    which requires uidhash_lock to be held. free_user_ns() then calls
    free_uid() to complete the destruction.

    Fix this by deferring the destruction of the user_namespace.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    David Howells
     

25 Nov, 2008

1 commit

  • The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct
    cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise
    would not be). Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are
    here as well.

    Fix refcounting. The following rules now apply:
    1. The task pins the user struct.
    2. The user struct pins its user namespace.
    3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it.

    User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds(). Unsharing a new user_ns
    is no longer possible. (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code
    duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user
    namespaces).

    When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty
    keyrings and a clean group_info.

    This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells. Here
    is his original patch description:

    >I suggest adding the attached incremental patch. It makes the following
    >changes:
    >
    > (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user
    > namespace.
    >
    > (2) Fixes eCryptFS.
    >
    > (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent
    > with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is
    > superfluous.
    >
    > (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the
    > beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts
    > at allocation.
    >
    > (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds
    > to fill in rather than have it return the new root user. I don't imagine
    > the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred
    > struct.
    >
    > This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the
    > reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be
    > transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer.
    >
    > (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under
    > preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds().
    >
    >David

    >Signed-off-by: David Howells

    Changelog:
    Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments
    1. leave thread_keyring alone
    2. use current_user_ns() in set_user()

    Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn

    Serge Hallyn
     

14 Nov, 2008

2 commits

  • Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management. This uses RCU to manage the
    credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
    A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
    access or modify its own credentials.

    A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
    of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
    execve().

    With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
    changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
    and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

    struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
    int ret = blah(new);
    if (ret < 0) {
    abort_creds(new);
    return ret;
    }
    return commit_creds(new);

    There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
    credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
    COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
    the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

    To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
    the task_struct, are declared const. The purpose of this is compile-time
    discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers. Once a set of
    credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
    modified, except under special circumstances:

    (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

    (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

    The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
    using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
    added by a later patch).

    This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
    testsuite.

    This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

    (1) execve().

    This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
    security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

    (2) Temporary credential overrides.

    do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
    temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
    preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
    on the thread being dumped.

    This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
    credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
    the task's objective credentials.

    (3) LSM interface.

    A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

    (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
    (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

    Removed in favour of security_capset().

    (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

    New. This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
    creds and the proposed capability sets. It should fill in the new
    creds or return an error. All pointers, barring the pointer to the
    new creds, are now const.

    (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

    Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
    killed if it's an error.

    (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

    Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

    (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

    New. Free security data attached to cred->security.

    (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

    New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

    (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

    New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
    security by commit_creds().

    (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

    Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

    (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

    Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid(). This is used by
    cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
    setuid() changes. Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
    than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

    (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

    Removed. Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
    directly to init's credentials.

    NOTE! This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
    longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

    (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
    (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

    Changed. These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
    refer to the security context.

    (4) sys_capset().

    This has been simplified and uses less locking. The LSM functions it
    calls have been merged.

    (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

    This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
    commit_thread() to point that way.

    (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

    __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
    beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
    user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
    successful.

    switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
    folded into that. commit_creds() should take care of protecting
    __sigqueue_alloc().

    (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

    The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
    abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
    it.

    security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section. This
    guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

    The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

    Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
    commit_creds().

    The get functions all simply access the data directly.

    (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

    security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
    want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
    rather than through an argument.

    Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
    if it doesn't end up using it.

    (9) Keyrings.

    A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

    (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
    all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
    They may want separating out again later.

    (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
    rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

    (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
    thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
    keyring.

    (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
    the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

    (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
    credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
    process or session keyrings (they're shared).

    (10) Usermode helper.

    The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
    subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer. This set
    of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
    after it has been cloned.

    call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
    call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used. A
    special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
    specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

    call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
    supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

    (11) SELinux.

    SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
    interface changes mentioned above:

    (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
    current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
    that covers getting the ptracer's SID. Whilst this lock ensures that
    the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
    until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
    lock.

    (12) is_single_threaded().

    This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
    a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
    wants to use it too.

    The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
    with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough. We really want
    to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

    (13) nfsd.

    The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
    credentials it is going to use. It really needs to pass the credentials
    down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
    in this series have been applied.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: James Morris
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     
  • Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from
    the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds.

    Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id().

    Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more
    sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be
    addressed by later patches.

    Signed-off-by: David Howells
    Reviewed-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Al Viro
    Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com
    Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
    Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
    Signed-off-by: James Morris

    David Howells
     

24 Aug, 2008

1 commit


29 Apr, 2008

2 commits

  • Make eCryptfs key module subsystem respect namespaces.

    Since I will be removing the netlink interface in a future patch, I just made
    changes to the netlink.c code so that it will not break the build. With my
    recent patches, the kernel module currently defaults to the device handle
    interface rather than the netlink interface.

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export free_user_ns()]
    Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Michael Halcrow
     
  • Following an experimental deletion of the unnecessary directive

    #include

    from the header file , these files under kernel/ were exposed
    as needing to include one of or , so explicit
    includes were added where necessary.

    Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Robert P. J. Day
     

09 Feb, 2008

1 commit

  • Make the user_namespace.o compilation depend on this option and move the
    init_user_ns into user.c file to make the kernel compile and work without the
    namespaces support. This make the user namespace code be organized similar to
    other namespaces'.

    Also mask the USER_NS option as "depend on NAMESPACES".

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Cc: Cedric Le Goater
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     

20 Sep, 2007

2 commits

  • It turned out, that the user namespace is released during the do_exit() in
    exit_task_namespaces(), but the struct user_struct is released only during the
    put_task_struct(), i.e. MUCH later.

    On debug kernels with poisoned slabs this will cause the oops in
    uid_hash_remove() because the head of the chain, which resides inside the
    struct user_namespace, will be already freed and poisoned.

    Since the uid hash itself is required only when someone can search it, i.e.
    when the namespace is alive, we can safely unhash all the user_struct-s from
    it during the namespace exiting. The subsequent free_uid() will complete the
    user_struct destruction.

    For example simple program

    #include

    char stack[2 * 1024 * 1024];

    int f(void *foo)
    {
    return 0;
    }

    int main(void)
    {
    clone(f, stack + 1 * 1024 * 1024, 0x10000000, 0);
    return 0;
    }

    run on kernel with CONFIG_USER_NS turned on will oops the
    kernel immediately.

    This was spotted during OpenVZ kernel testing.

    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Acked-by: "Serge E. Hallyn"
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     
  • Surprisingly, but (spotted by Alexey Dobriyan) the uid hash still uses
    list_heads, thus occupying twice as much place as it could. Convert it to
    hlist_heads.

    Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
    Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Pavel Emelyanov
     

31 Aug, 2007

1 commit


17 Jul, 2007

3 commits

  • dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong,
    create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means that the
    subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in copy_mnt_ns() or
    copy_utsname().

    Modify create_new_namespaces() to also use the errors returned by the
    copy_*_ns routines and not to systematically return ENOMEM.

    [oleg@tv-sign.ru: better changelog]
    Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
    Cc: Serge E. Hallyn
    Cc: Badari Pulavarty
    Cc: Pavel Emelianov
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Cedric Le Goater
     
  • This patch enables the unshare of user namespaces.

    It adds a new clone flag CLONE_NEWUSER and implements copy_user_ns() which
    resets the current user_struct and adds a new root user (uid == 0)

    For now, unsharing the user namespace allows a process to reset its
    user_struct accounting and uid 0 in the new user namespace should be contained
    using appropriate means, for instance selinux

    The plan, when the full support is complete (all uid checks covered), is to
    keep the original user's rights in the original namespace, and let a process
    become uid 0 in the new namespace, with full capabilities to the new
    namespace.

    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
    Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Chris Wright
    Cc: Stephen Smalley
    Cc: James Morris
    Cc: Andrew Morgan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Serge E. Hallyn
     
  • Basically, it will allow a process to unshare its user_struct table,
    resetting at the same time its own user_struct and all the associated
    accounting.

    A new root user (uid == 0) is added to the user namespace upon creation.
    Such root users have full privileges and it seems that theses privileges
    should be controlled through some means (process capabilities ?)

    The unshare is not included in this patch.

    Changes since [try #4]:
    - Updated get_user_ns and put_user_ns to accept NULL, and
    get_user_ns to return the namespace.

    Changes since [try #3]:
    - moved struct user_namespace to files user_namespace.{c,h}

    Changes since [try #2]:
    - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()

    Changes since [try #1]:
    - removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()
    - added a root_user per user namespace

    Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
    Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
    Acked-by: Pavel Emelianov
    Cc: Herbert Poetzl
    Cc: Kirill Korotaev
    Cc: Eric W. Biederman
    Cc: Chris Wright
    Cc: Stephen Smalley
    Cc: James Morris
    Cc: Andrew Morgan
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Cedric Le Goater