kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/fs/namei.c, branch linux-5.0.y

Revert "vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems."

2018-12-22T22:18:34+00:00

This reverts commit 55956b59df336f6738da916dbb520b6e37df9fbd. commit 55956b59df33 ("vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems.") enabled mknod() in user namespaces for userns root if CAP_MKNOD is available. However, these device nodes are useless since any filesystem mounted from a non-initial user namespace will set the SB_I_NODEV flag on the filesystem. Now, when a device node s created in a non-initial user namespace a call to open() on said device node will fail due to: bool may_open_dev(const struct path *path) { return !(path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV) && !(path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_iflags & SB_I_NODEV); } The problem with this is that as of the aforementioned commit mknod() creates partially functional device nodes in non-initial user namespaces. In particular, it has the consequence that as of the aforementioned commit open() will be more privileged with respect to device nodes than mknod(). Before it was the other way around. Specifically, if mknod() succeeded then it was transparent for any userspace application that a fatal error must have occured when open() failed. All of this breaks multiple userspace workloads and a widespread assumption about how to handle mknod(). Basically, all container runtimes and systemd live by the slogan "ask for forgiveness not permission" when running user namespace workloads. For mknod() the assumption is that if the syscall succeeds the device nodes are useable irrespective of whether it succeeds in a non-initial user namespace or not. This logic was chosen explicitly to allow for the glorious day when mknod() will actually be able to create fully functional device nodes in user namespaces. A specific problem people are already running into when running 4.18 rc kernels are failing systemd services. For any distro that is run in a container systemd services started with the PrivateDevices= property set will fail to start since the device nodes in question cannot be opened (cf. the arguments in [1]). Full disclosure, Seth made the very sound argument that it is already possible to end up with partially functional device nodes. Any filesystem mounted with MS_NODEV set will allow mknod() to succeed but will not allow open() to succeed. The difference to the case here is that the MS_NODEV case is transparent to userspace since it is an explicitly set mount option while the SB_I_NODEV case is an implicit property enforced by the kernel and hence opaque to userspace. [1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/9483 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Seth Forshee Cc: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files

2018-08-24T01:48:43+00:00

Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag. The purpose is to make data spoofing attacks harder. This protection can be turned on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like the symlinks/hardlinks protection. This patch is based on Openwall's "HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer. This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation: CVE-2000-1134 CVE-2007-3852 CVE-2008-0525 CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2011-4834 CVE-2015-1838 CVE-2015-7442 CVE-2016-7489 This list is not meant to be complete. It's difficult to track down all vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any mention of this particular attack vector. In fact, before hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite vehicle to exploit them. [s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future] [keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Suggested-by: Solar Designer Suggested-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs

2018-08-22T01:19:09+00:00

Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This contains two new features: - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up, possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others. - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata and continue to use the data from the lower file" * tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits) ovl: Enable metadata only feature ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation ovl: add helper to force data copy-up ovl: Check redirect on index as well ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real() ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata() ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry ...

Merge branches 'work.misc' and 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2018-08-14T04:28:25+00:00

Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Misc cleanups from various folks all over the place I expected more fs/dcache.c cleanups this cycle, so that went into a separate branch. Said cleanups have missed the window, so in the hindsight it could've gone into work.misc instead. Decided not to cherry-pick, thus the 'work.dcache' branch" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: dcache: Use true and false for boolean values fold generic_readlink() into its only caller fs: shave 8 bytes off of struct inode fs: Add more kernel-doc to the produced documentation fs: Fix attr.c kernel-doc removed extra extern file_fdatawait_range * 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill dentry_update_name_case()

fold generic_readlink() into its only caller

2018-07-19T21:35:51+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Revert "vfs: update ovl inode before relatime check"

2018-07-18T13:44:43+00:00

This reverts commit 598e3c8f72f5b77c84d2cb26cfd936ffb3cfdbaa. Overlayfs no longer relies on the vfs correct atime handling. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

few more cleanups of link_path_walk() callers

2018-07-12T14:04:31+00:00

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro

allow link_path_walk() to take ERR_PTR()

2018-07-12T14:04:30+00:00

There is a check for IS_ERR(name) immediately upstream of each call of link_path_walk(name, nd), with positives treated as if link_path_walk() failed with PTR_ERR(name). Taking that check into link_path_walk() itself simplifies things nicely. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro

make path_init() unconditionally paired with terminate_walk()

2018-07-12T14:04:30+00:00

including the failure exits Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch atomic_open() and lookup_open() to returning 0 in all success cases

2018-07-12T14:04:22+00:00

caller can tell "opened" from "open it yourself" by looking at ->f_mode. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Al Viro