1. 26 Jul, 2014 2 commits
  2. 25 Jul, 2014 4 commits
  3. 24 Jul, 2014 3 commits
    • Eric Paris's avatar
      CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes · 7d8b6c63
      Eric Paris authored
      This is effectively a revert of 7b9a7ec5
      plus fixing it a different way...
      
      We found, when trying to run an application from an application which
      had dropped privs that the kernel does security checks on undefined
      capability bits.  This was ESPECIALLY difficult to debug as those
      undefined bits are hidden from /proc/$PID/status.
      
      Consider a root application which drops all capabilities from ALL 4
      capability sets.  We assume, since the application is going to set
      eff/perm/inh from an array that it will clear not only the defined caps
      less than CAP_LAST_CAP, but also the higher 28ish bits which are
      undefined future capabilities.
      
      The BSET gets cleared differently.  Instead it is cleared one bit at a
      time.  The problem here is that in security/commoncap.c::cap_task_prctl()
      we actually check the validity of a capability being read.  So any task
      which attempts to 'read all things set in bset' followed by 'unset all
      things set in bset' will not even attempt to unset the undefined bits
      higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.
      
      So the 'parent' will look something like:
      CapInh:	0000000000000000
      CapPrm:	0000000000000000
      CapEff:	0000000000000000
      CapBnd:	ffffffc000000000
      
      All of this 'should' be fine.  Given that these are undefined bits that
      aren't supposed to have anything to do with permissions.  But they do...
      
      So lets now consider a task which cleared the eff/perm/inh completely
      and cleared all of the valid caps in the bset (but not the invalid caps
      it couldn't read out of the kernel).  We know that this is exactly what
      the libcap-ng library does and what the go capabilities library does.
      They both leave you in that above situation if you try to clear all of
      you capapabilities from all 4 sets.  If that root task calls execve()
      the child task will pick up all caps not blocked by the bset.  The bset
      however does not block bits higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.  So now the child
      task has bits in eff which are not in the parent.  These are
      'meaningless' undefined bits, but still bits which the parent doesn't
      have.
      
      The problem is now in cred_cap_issubset() (or any operation which does a
      subset test) as the child, while a subset for valid cap bits, is not a
      subset for invalid cap bits!  So now we set durring commit creds that
      the child is not dumpable.  Given it is 'more priv' than its parent.  It
      also means the parent cannot ptrace the child and other stupidity.
      
      The solution here:
      1) stop hiding capability bits in status
      	This makes debugging easier!
      
      2) stop giving any task undefined capability bits.  it's simple, it you
      don't put those invalid bits in CAP_FULL_SET you won't get them in init
      and you won't get them in any other task either.
      	This fixes the cap_issubset() tests and resulting fallout (which
      	made the init task in a docker container untraceable among other
      	things)
      
      3) mask out undefined bits when sys_capset() is called as it might use
      ~0, ~0 to denote 'all capabilities' for backward/forward compatibility.
      	This lets 'capsh --caps="all=eip" -- -c /bin/bash' run.
      
      4) mask out undefined bit when we read a file capability off of disk as
      again likely all bits are set in the xattr for forward/backward
      compatibility.
      	This lets 'setcap all+pe /bin/bash; /bin/bash' run
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Andrew Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
      Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
      Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Cc: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
      Cc: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      7d8b6c63
    • James Morris's avatar
      Merge tag 'keys-next-20140722' of... · 4ca332e1
      James Morris authored
      Merge tag 'keys-next-20140722' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next
      4ca332e1
    • Tetsuo Handa's avatar
      commoncap: don't alloc the credential unless needed in cap_task_prctl · 6d6f3328
      Tetsuo Handa authored
      In function cap_task_prctl(), we would allocate a credential
      unconditionally and then check if we support the requested function.
      If not we would release this credential with abort_creds() by using
      RCU method. But on some archs such as powerpc, the sys_prctl is heavily
      used to get/set the floating point exception mode. So the unnecessary
      allocating/releasing of credential not only introduce runtime overhead
      but also do cause OOM due to the RCU implementation.
      
      This patch removes abort_creds() from cap_task_prctl() by calling
      prepare_creds() only when we need to modify it.
      Reported-by: default avatarKevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      6d6f3328
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