Re: [PATCHv1 6/8] cgroup: restrict cgroup operations within task's cgroupns

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Fri Oct 17 2014 - 05:28:22 EST


Quoting Aditya Kali (adityakali@xxxxxxxxxx):
> Restrict following operations within the calling tasks:
> * cgroup_mkdir & cgroup_rmdir
> * cgroup_attach_task
> * writes to cgroup files outside of task's cgroupns-root
>
> Also, read of /proc/<pid>/cgroup file is now restricted only
> to tasks under same cgroupns-root. If a task tries to look
> at cgroup of another task outside of its cgroupns-root, then
> it won't be able to see anything for the default hierarchy.
> This is same as if the cgroups are not mounted.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@xxxxxxxxxx>

So this is a bit different from some other namespaces - if I
have an open fd to a file, then setns into a mntns where that
file is not addressable, I can still use the file.

I guess not allowing attach to a cgroup outside our ns is a
good failsafe as we'll otherwise risk falling off a cliff in
some code, but I'm not sure the cgroup_file_write/mkdir/rmdir
restrictions are needed. (And really I can fchdir to a
directory not in my ns, so the cgroup-attach restriction is
any more justified).

Still I'm not strictly opposed ot this, so

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

just wanted to point this out.

> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index f8099b4..2fc0dfa 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -2318,6 +2318,12 @@ static int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
> struct task_struct *task;
> int ret;
>
> + /* Only allow changing cgroups accessible within task's cgroup
> + * namespace. i.e. 'dst_cgrp' should be a descendant of task's
> + * cgroupns->root_cgrp. */
> + if (!cgroup_is_descendant(dst_cgrp, task_cgroupns_root(leader)))
> + return -EPERM;
> +
> /* look up all src csets */
> down_read(&css_set_rwsem);
> rcu_read_lock();
> @@ -2882,6 +2888,10 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_file_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
> int ret;
>
> + /* Reject writes to cgroup files outside of task's cgroupns-root. */
> + if (!cgroup_is_descendant(cgrp, task_cgroupns_root(current)))
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> if (cft->write)
> return cft->write(of, buf, nbytes, off);
>
> @@ -4560,6 +4570,13 @@ static int cgroup_mkdir(struct kernfs_node *parent_kn, const char *name,
> parent = cgroup_kn_lock_live(parent_kn);
> if (!parent)
> return -ENODEV;
> +
> + /* Allow mkdir only within process's cgroup namespace root. */
> + if (!cgroup_is_descendant(parent, task_cgroupns_root(current))) {
> + ret = -EPERM;
> + goto out_unlock;
> + }
> +
> root = parent->root;
>
> /* allocate the cgroup and its ID, 0 is reserved for the root */
> @@ -4822,6 +4839,13 @@ static int cgroup_rmdir(struct kernfs_node *kn)
> if (!cgrp)
> return 0;
>
> + /* Allow rmdir only within process's cgroup namespace root.
> + * The process can't delete its own root anyways. */
> + if (!cgroup_is_descendant(cgrp, task_cgroupns_root(current))) {
> + cgroup_kn_unlock(kn);
> + return -EPERM;
> + }
> +
> ret = cgroup_destroy_locked(cgrp);
>
> cgroup_kn_unlock(kn);
> @@ -5051,6 +5075,15 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> if (root == &cgrp_dfl_root && !cgrp_dfl_root_visible)
> continue;
>
> + cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
> +
> + /* The cgroup path on default hierarchy is shown only if it
> + * falls under current task's cgroupns-root.
> + */
> + if (root == &cgrp_dfl_root &&
> + !cgroup_is_descendant(cgrp, task_cgroupns_root(current)))
> + continue;
> +
> seq_printf(m, "%d:", root->hierarchy_id);
> for_each_subsys(ss, ssid)
> if (root->subsys_mask & (1 << ssid))
> @@ -5059,7 +5092,6 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
> seq_printf(m, "%sname=%s", count ? "," : "",
> root->name);
> seq_putc(m, ':');
> - cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
> path = cgroup_path(cgrp, buf, PATH_MAX);
> if (!path) {
> retval = -ENAMETOOLONG;
> --
> 2.1.0.rc2.206.gedb03e5
>
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