Re: [RFC][PATCH v2] Unprivileged: Disable raising of privileges

From: Andrew G. Morgan
Date: Wed Dec 30 2009 - 09:52:29 EST


Eric,

I'm not clear why capabilities need to be manipulated by this feature
(the pure capability support already has a feature for disabling
privilege and blocking unsafe, or insufficient privilege, execution).

Perhaps I'm just unclear what features can be more safely enabled with
this in effect - that is, your description suggests that this is why
you are doing this, but leaves it unclear what they are. Could you
take a few moments to enumerate some of them?

Thanks

Andrew

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> If we can know that a process will never raise
> it's priveleges we can enable a lot of features
> that otherwise would be unsafe, because they
> could break assumptions of existing suid executables.
>
> To allow this to be used as a sand boxing feature
> also disable ptracing other executables without
> this new restriction.
>
> For the moment I have used a per thread flag because
> we are out of per process flags.
>
> To ensure all descendants get this flag I rely on
> the default copying of procss structures.
>
> Added bprm->nosuid to make remove the need to add
> duplicate error prone checks.  This ensures that
> the disabling of suid executables is exactly the
> same as MNT_NOSUID.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h |    2 ++
>  fs/exec.c                          |    6 ++++--
>  include/linux/binfmts.h            |    1 +
>  include/linux/prctl.h              |    2 ++
>  kernel/ptrace.c                    |    4 ++++
>  kernel/sys.c                       |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  security/commoncap.c               |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  security/selinux/hooks.c           |    2 +-
>  8 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> index 375c917..e716203 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h
> @@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct thread_info {
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_EMU                6       /* syscall emulation active */
>  #define TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT      7       /* syscall auditing active */
>  #define TIF_SECCOMP            8       /* secure computing */
> +#define TIF_NOSUID             9       /* suid exec permanently disabled */
>  #define TIF_MCE_NOTIFY         10      /* notify userspace of an MCE */
>  #define TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY 11      /* notify kernel of userspace return */
>  #define TIF_NOTSC              16      /* TSC is not accessible in userland */
> @@ -107,6 +108,7 @@ struct thread_info {
>  #define _TIF_SYSCALL_EMU       (1 << TIF_SYSCALL_EMU)
>  #define _TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT     (1 << TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT)
>  #define _TIF_SECCOMP           (1 << TIF_SECCOMP)
> +#define _TIF_NOSUID            (1 << TIF_NOSUID)
>  #define _TIF_MCE_NOTIFY                (1 << TIF_MCE_NOTIFY)
>  #define _TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY        (1 << TIF_USER_RETURN_NOTIFY)
>  #define _TIF_NOTSC             (1 << TIF_NOTSC)
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 632b02e..5cba5ac 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1131,8 +1131,10 @@ int prepare_binprm(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>        /* clear any previous set[ug]id data from a previous binary */
>        bprm->cred->euid = current_euid();
>        bprm->cred->egid = current_egid();
> -
> -       if (!(bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)) {
> +       bprm->nosuid =
> +               (bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID) ||
> +               test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_NOSUID);
> +       if (bprm->nosuid) {
>                /* Set-uid? */
>                if (mode & S_ISUID) {
>                        bprm->per_clear |= PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID;
> diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
> index cd4349b..c3b5a30 100644
> --- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
> +++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct linux_binprm{
>  #ifdef __alpha__
>        unsigned int taso:1;
>  #endif
> +       unsigned int nosuid:1;  /* True if suid bits are ignored */
>        unsigned int recursion_depth;
>        struct file * file;
>        struct cred *cred;      /* new credentials */
> diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
> index a3baeb2..acb3516 100644
> --- a/include/linux/prctl.h
> +++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
> @@ -102,4 +102,6 @@
>
>  #define PR_MCE_KILL_GET 34
>
> +#define PR_SET_NOSUID  35
> +
>  #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
> index 23bd09c..b91040c 100644
> --- a/kernel/ptrace.c
> +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
> @@ -152,6 +152,10 @@ int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
>        if (!dumpable && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
>                return -EPERM;
>
> +       if (test_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_NOSUID) &&
> +           !test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_NOSUID))
> +               return -EPERM;
> +
>        return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);
>  }
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index 26a6b73..1d1902a 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -1578,6 +1578,22 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
>                        else
>                                error = PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT;
>                        break;
> +               case PR_SET_NOSUID:
> +               {
> +                       const struct cred *cred = current->cred;
> +                       error = -EINVAL;
> +                       if (    (cred->uid != cred->suid) ||
> +                               (cred->uid != cred->euid) ||
> +                               (cred->uid != cred->fsuid) ||
> +                               (cred->gid != cred->sgid) ||
> +                               (cred->gid != cred->egid) ||
> +                               (cred->gid != cred->fsgid) ||
> +                               (atomic_read(&current->signal->count) != 1))
> +                               break;
> +                       error = 0;
> +                       set_tsk_thread_flag(current, TIF_NOSUID);
> +                       break;
> +               }
>                default:
>                        error = -EINVAL;
>                        break;
> diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
> index f800fdb..28ab286 100644
> --- a/security/commoncap.c
> +++ b/security/commoncap.c
> @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static int get_file_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm, bool *effective)
>        if (!file_caps_enabled)
>                return 0;
>
> -       if (bprm->file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)
> +       if (bprm->nosuid)
>                return 0;
>
>        dentry = dget(bprm->file->f_dentry);
> @@ -869,6 +869,18 @@ int cap_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
>                        new->securebits &= ~issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
>                goto changed;
>
> +       case PR_SET_NOSUID:
> +       {
> +               const struct cred *cred = current->cred;
> +               error = -EINVAL;
> +               /* Perform the capabilities checks */
> +               if (!cap_isclear(cred->cap_permitted) ||
> +                   !cap_isclear(cred->cap_effective))
> +                       goto error;
> +               /* Have the default perform the rest of the work. */
> +               error = -ENOSYS;
> +               goto error;
> +       }
>        default:
>                /* No functionality available - continue with default */
>                error = -ENOSYS;
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 7a374c2..d14cd24 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -2147,7 +2147,7 @@ static int selinux_bprm_set_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>        COMMON_AUDIT_DATA_INIT(&ad, FS);
>        ad.u.fs.path = bprm->file->f_path;
>
> -       if (bprm->file->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)
> +       if (bprm->nosid)
>                new_tsec->sid = old_tsec->sid;
>
>        if (new_tsec->sid == old_tsec->sid) {
> --
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