Re: [RFC 2/2] binfmt_misc: move data to binfmt_namespace

From: Jann Horn
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 04:54:44 EST


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:47 AM Laurent Vivier <laurent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> @@ -716,7 +711,8 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
> if (!inode)
> goto out2;
>
> - err = simple_pin_fs(&bm_fs_type, &bm_mnt, &entry_count);
> + err = simple_pin_fs(&bm_fs_type, &binfmt_ns(bm_mnt),
> + &binfmt_ns(entry_count));
> if (err) {
> iput(inode);
> inode = NULL;
> @@ -730,7 +726,8 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
> if (IS_ERR(f)) {
> err = PTR_ERR(f);
> pr_notice("register: failed to install interpreter file %s\n", e->interpreter);
> - simple_release_fs(&bm_mnt, &entry_count);
> + simple_release_fs(&binfmt_ns(bm_mnt),
> + &binfmt_ns(entry_count));
> iput(inode);
> inode = NULL;
> goto out2;
> @@ -743,9 +740,9 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
> inode->i_fop = &bm_entry_operations;
>
> d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
> - write_lock(&entries_lock);
> - list_add(&e->list, &entries);
> - write_unlock(&entries_lock);
> + write_lock(&binfmt_ns(entries_lock));
> + list_add(&e->list, &binfmt_ns(entries));
> + write_unlock(&binfmt_ns(entries_lock));

This looks wrong. A write handler's behavior should not depend on the
namespace of the process that is using it.

Ideally, the affected namespace should depend on the file you're writing to.
If that's not possible, the affected namespace should at least be the
namespace of the process that opened the file.