[PATCH v12 09/12] namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like path resolution

[Aleksa Sarai]

The primary motivation for the need for this flag is container runtimes
which have to interact with malicious root filesystems in the host
namespaces. One of the first requirements for a container runtime to be
secure against a malicious rootfs is that they correctly scope symlinks
(that is, they should be scoped as though they are chroot(2)ed into the
container's rootfs) and ".."-style paths[*]. The already-existing
LOOKUP_NO_XDEV and LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS help defend against other
potential attacks in a malicious rootfs scenario.

Currently most container runtimes try to do this resolution in
userspace[1], causing many potential race conditions. In addition, the
"obvious" alternative (actually performing a {ch,pivot_}root(2))
requires a fork+exec (for some runtimes) which is *very* costly if
necessary for every filesystem operation involving a container.

[*] At the moment, ".." and magic-link jumping are disallowed for the
    same reason it is disabled for LOOKUP_BENEATH -- currently it is not
    safe to allow it. Future patches may enable it unconditionally once
    we have resolved the possible races (for "..") and semantics (for
    magic-link jumping).

The most significant *at(2) semantic change with LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is that
absolute pathnames no longer cause the dirfd to be ignored completely.

The rationale is that LOOKUP_IN_ROOT must necessarily chroot-scope
symlinks with absolute paths to dirfd, and so doing it for the base path
seems to be the most consistent behaviour (and also avoids foot-gunning
users who want to scope paths that are absolute).

[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c            | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 include/linux/namei.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 2e18ce5a313e..0352d275bd13 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd)
 		goto out1;
 	if (!nd->root.mnt) {
 		/* Restart from path_init() if nd->root was cleared. */
-		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH)
+		if (nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT))
 			goto out;
 	} else if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT)) {
 		if (unlikely(!legitimize_path(nd, &nd->root, nd->root_seq)))
@@ -809,10 +809,18 @@ static int complete_walk(struct nameidata *nd)
 	return status;
 }
 
-static void set_root(struct nameidata *nd)
+static int set_root(struct nameidata *nd)
 {
 	struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
 
+	/*
+	 * Jumping to the real root as part of LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is a BUG in namei,
+	 * but we still have to ensure it doesn't happen because it will cause a
+	 * breakout from the dirfd.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_IN_ROOT))
+		return -ENOTRECOVERABLE;
+
 	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
 		unsigned seq;
 
@@ -824,6 +832,7 @@ static void set_root(struct nameidata *nd)
 	} else {
 		get_fs_root(fs, &nd->root);
 	}
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static void path_put_conditional(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd)
@@ -854,6 +863,11 @@ static int nd_jump_root(struct nameidata *nd)
 		if (nd->path.mnt != NULL && nd->path.mnt != nd->root.mnt)
 			return -EXDEV;
 	}
+	if (!nd->root.mnt) {
+		int error = set_root(nd);
+		if (error)
+			return error;
+	}
 	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
 		struct dentry *d;
 		nd->path = nd->root;
@@ -1100,15 +1114,13 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd)
 			if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS))
 				return ERR_PTR(-ELOOP);
 			/* Not currently safe. */
-			if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH))
+			if (unlikely(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)))
 				return ERR_PTR(-EXDEV);
 		}
 		if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(res))
 			return res;
 	}
 	if (*res == '/') {
-		if (!nd->root.mnt)
-			set_root(nd);
 		error = nd_jump_root(nd);
 		if (unlikely(error))
 			return ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -1744,15 +1756,20 @@ static inline int may_lookup(struct nameidata *nd)
 static inline int handle_dots(struct nameidata *nd, int type)
 {
 	if (type == LAST_DOTDOT) {
+		int error = 0;
+
 		/*
 		 * LOOKUP_BENEATH resolving ".." is not currently safe -- races
 		 * can cause our parent to have moved outside of the root and
 		 * us to skip over it.
 		 */
-		if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH))
+		if (unlikely(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)))
 			return -EXDEV;
-		if (!nd->root.mnt)
-			set_root(nd);
+		if (!nd->root.mnt) {
+			error = set_root(nd);
+			if (error)
+				return error;
+		}
 		if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
 			return follow_dotdot_rcu(nd);
 		} else
@@ -2251,9 +2268,13 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags)
 
 	nd->m_seq = read_seqbegin(&mount_lock);
 
+	/* LOOKUP_IN_ROOT treats absolute paths as being relative-to-dirfd. */
+	if (flags & LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)
+		while (*s == '/')
+			s++;
+
 	/* Figure out the starting path and root (if needed). */
 	if (*s == '/') {
-		set_root(nd);
 		error = nd_jump_root(nd);
 		if (unlikely(error))
 			return ERR_PTR(error);
@@ -2298,7 +2319,7 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags)
 		fdput(f);
 	}
 	/* For scoped-lookups we need to set the root to the dirfd as well. */
-	if (flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH) {
+	if (flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)) {
 		nd->root = nd->path;
 		if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
 			nd->root_seq = nd->seq;
diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h
index be407415c28a..ec2c6c588ea7 100644
--- a/include/linux/namei.h
+++ b/include/linux/namei.h
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND};
 #define LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS	0x080000 /* No /proc/$pid/fd/ "symlink" crossing. */
 #define LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS	0x100000 /* No symlink crossing *at all*.
 					    Implies LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS. */
+#define LOOKUP_IN_ROOT		0x200000 /* Treat dirfd as %current->fs->root. */
 
 extern int path_pts(struct path *path);
 
-- 
2.23.0