Re: [PATCH v4] fs: clear file privilege bits when mmap writing

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 08-12-15 15:28:18, Kees Cook wrote:
> Normally, when a user can modify a file that has setuid or setgid bits,
> those bits are cleared when they are not the file owner or a member
> of the group. This is enforced when using write and truncate but not
> when writing to a shared mmap on the file. This could allow the file
> writer to gain privileges by changing a binary without losing the
> setuid/setgid/caps bits.
> 
> Changing the bits requires holding inode->i_mutex, so it cannot be done
> during the page fault (due to mmap_sem being held during the fault). We
> could do this during vm_mmap_pgoff, but that would need coverage in
> mprotect as well, but to check for MAP_SHARED, we'd need to hold mmap_sem
> again.
> 
> Instead, detect the need to clear the bits during the page fault, and
> actually remove the bits during final fput. Since the file was open for
> writing, it wouldn't have been possible to execute it yet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Here's another way? I wonder which of these will actually work. I
> wish we could reject writes if file_remove_privs() fails.

Yeah, the fact that we cannot do anything with file_remove_privs() failure
is rather unfortunate. So open for writing may be the best choice for
file_remove_privs() in the end? It's not perfect but it looks like the
least problematic solution.

Frankly writeable files that have SUID / SGID bits set are IMHO problems on
its own, with IMA attrs which are handled by file_remove_privs() as well
things may be somewhat different.

> diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
> index ad17e05ebf95..abb537ef4344 100644
> --- a/fs/file_table.c
> +++ b/fs/file_table.c
> @@ -191,6 +191,14 @@ static void __fput(struct file *file)
>  
>  	might_sleep();
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * XXX: While avoiding mmap_sem, we've already been written to.
> +	 * We must ignore the return value, since we can't reject the
> +	 * write.
> +	 */
> +	if (unlikely(file->f_remove_privs))
> +		file_remove_privs(file);
> +

You're missing i_mutex locking again ;).

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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