Re: [PATCH RESEND v11 7/8] proc: use human-readable values for hidepid

[Eric W. Biederman]

Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The hidepid parameter values are becoming more and more and it becomes
> difficult to remember what each new magic number means.

So I relooked at the code.  And I think I was misreading things.
However I think it is a legitimate concern.

Can you please mention in your description of this change that
switching from fsparam_u32 to fs_param_string is safe even when
using the new mount api because fsparam_u32 and fs_param_string
both are sent from userspace with "fsconfig(fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, ...)".

Or words to that effect.  Ideally you will even manually test that case
to confirm.

Thank you,
Eric


> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++---------------
>  fs/proc/inode.c                    | 15 ++++++++-
>  fs/proc/root.c                     | 38 +++++++++++++++++++---
>  3 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> index bd0e0ab85048..af47672cb2cb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
> @@ -2025,28 +2025,28 @@ The following mount options are supported:
>  	gid=		Set the group authorized to learn processes information.
>  	subset=		Show only the specified subset of procfs.
>  
> -hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all /proc/<pid>/ directories
> -(default).
> -
> -hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/ directories but their
> -own.  Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now protected against
> -other users.  This makes it impossible to learn whether any user runs
> -specific program (given the program doesn't reveal itself by its behaviour).
> -As an additional bonus, as /proc/<pid>/cmdline is unaccessible for other users,
> -poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program arguments are
> -now protected against local eavesdroppers.
> -
> -hidepid=2 means hidepid=1 plus all /proc/<pid>/ will be fully invisible to other
> -users.  It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether a process with a specific
> -pid value exists (it can be learned by other means, e.g. by "kill -0 $PID"),
> -but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned by stat()'ing
> -/proc/<pid>/ otherwise.  It greatly complicates an intruder's task of gathering
> -information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with elevated
> -privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether other users
> -run any program at all, etc.
> -
> -hidepid=4 means that procfs should only contain /proc/<pid>/ directories
> -that the caller can ptrace.
> +hidepid=off or hidepid=0 means classic mode - everybody may access all
> +/proc/<pid>/ directories (default).
> +
> +hidepid=noaccess or hidepid=1 means users may not access any /proc/<pid>/
> +directories but their own.  Sensitive files like cmdline, sched*, status are now
> +protected against other users.  This makes it impossible to learn whether any
> +user runs specific program (given the program doesn't reveal itself by its
> +behaviour).  As an additional bonus, as /proc/<pid>/cmdline is unaccessible for
> +other users, poorly written programs passing sensitive information via program
> +arguments are now protected against local eavesdroppers.
> +
> +hidepid=invisible or hidepid=2 means hidepid=noaccess plus all /proc/<pid>/ will
> +be fully invisible to other users.  It doesn't mean that it hides a fact whether
> +a process with a specific pid value exists (it can be learned by other means,
> +e.g. by "kill -0 $PID"), but it hides process' uid and gid, which may be learned
> +by stat()'ing /proc/<pid>/ otherwise.  It greatly complicates an intruder's task
> +of gathering information about running processes, whether some daemon runs with
> +elevated privileges, whether other user runs some sensitive program, whether
> +other users run any program at all, etc.
> +
> +hidepid=ptraceable or hidepid=4 means that procfs should only contain
> +/proc/<pid>/ directories that the caller can ptrace.
>  
>  gid= defines a group authorized to learn processes information otherwise
>  prohibited by hidepid=.  If you use some daemon like identd which needs to learn
> @@ -2093,8 +2093,8 @@ creates a new procfs instance. Mount options affect own procfs instance.
>  It means that it became possible to have several procfs instances
>  displaying tasks with different filtering options in one pid namespace.
>  
> -# mount -o hidepid=2 -t proc proc /proc
> -# mount -o hidepid=1 -t proc proc /tmp/proc
> +# mount -o hidepid=invisible -t proc proc /proc
> +# mount -o hidepid=noaccess -t proc proc /tmp/proc
>  # grep ^proc /proc/mounts
> -proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=2 0 0
> -proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=1 0 0
> +proc /proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=invisible 0 0
> +proc /tmp/proc proc rw,relatime,hidepid=noaccess 0 0
> diff --git a/fs/proc/inode.c b/fs/proc/inode.c
> index e6577ce6027b..d38a9e592352 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/inode.c
> @@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
>  #include <linux/seq_file.h>
>  #include <linux/slab.h>
>  #include <linux/mount.h>
> +#include <linux/bug.h>
>  
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
>  
> @@ -165,6 +166,18 @@ void proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache(struct hlist_head *inodes, spinlock_t *lock
>  		deactivate_super(old_sb);
>  }
>  
> +static inline const char *hidepid2str(int v)
> +{
> +	switch (v) {
> +		case HIDEPID_OFF: return "off";
> +		case HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS: return "noaccess";
> +		case HIDEPID_INVISIBLE: return "invisible";
> +		case HIDEPID_NOT_PTRACEABLE: return "ptraceable";
> +	}
> +	WARN_ONCE(1, "bad hide_pid value: %d\n", v);
> +	return "unknown";
> +}
> +
>  static int proc_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root)
>  {
>  	struct proc_fs_info *fs_info = proc_sb_info(root->d_sb);
> @@ -172,7 +185,7 @@ static int proc_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root)
>  	if (!gid_eq(fs_info->pid_gid, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID))
>  		seq_printf(seq, ",gid=%u", from_kgid_munged(&init_user_ns, fs_info->pid_gid));
>  	if (fs_info->hide_pid != HIDEPID_OFF)
> -		seq_printf(seq, ",hidepid=%u", fs_info->hide_pid);
> +		seq_printf(seq, ",hidepid=%s", hidepid2str(fs_info->hide_pid));
>  	if (fs_info->pidonly != PROC_PIDONLY_OFF)
>  		seq_printf(seq, ",subset=pid");
>  
> diff --git a/fs/proc/root.c b/fs/proc/root.c
> index dbcd96f07c7a..c6caae9e4308 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/root.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/root.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ enum proc_param {
>  
>  static const struct fs_parameter_spec proc_fs_parameters[] = {
>  	fsparam_u32("gid",	Opt_gid),
> -	fsparam_u32("hidepid",	Opt_hidepid),
> +	fsparam_string("hidepid",	Opt_hidepid),
>  	fsparam_string("subset",	Opt_subset),
>  	{}
>  };
> @@ -58,6 +58,37 @@ static inline int valid_hidepid(unsigned int value)
>  		value == HIDEPID_NOT_PTRACEABLE);
>  }
>  
> +static int proc_parse_hidepid_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
> +{
> +	struct proc_fs_context *ctx = fc->fs_private;
> +	struct fs_parameter_spec hidepid_u32_spec = fsparam_u32("hidepid", Opt_hidepid);
> +	struct fs_parse_result result;
> +	int base = (unsigned long)hidepid_u32_spec.data;
> +
> +	if (param->type != fs_value_is_string)
> +		return invalf(fc, "proc: unexpected type of hidepid value\n");
> +
> +	if (!kstrtouint(param->string, base, &result.uint_32)) {
> +		if (!valid_hidepid(result.uint_32))
> +			return invalf(fc, "proc: unknown value of hidepid - %s\n", param->string);
> +		ctx->hidepid = result.uint_32;
> +		return 0;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!strcmp(param->string, "off"))
> +		ctx->hidepid = HIDEPID_OFF;
> +	else if (!strcmp(param->string, "noaccess"))
> +		ctx->hidepid = HIDEPID_NO_ACCESS;
> +	else if (!strcmp(param->string, "invisible"))
> +		ctx->hidepid = HIDEPID_INVISIBLE;
> +	else if (!strcmp(param->string, "ptraceable"))
> +		ctx->hidepid = HIDEPID_NOT_PTRACEABLE;
> +	else
> +		return invalf(fc, "proc: unknown value of hidepid - %s\n", param->string);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int proc_parse_subset_param(struct fs_context *fc, char *value)
>  {
>  	struct proc_fs_context *ctx = fc->fs_private;
> @@ -97,9 +128,8 @@ static int proc_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
>  		break;
>  
>  	case Opt_hidepid:
> -		if (!valid_hidepid(result.uint_32))
> -			return invalf(fc, "proc: unknown value of hidepid.\n");
> -		ctx->hidepid = result.uint_32;
> +		if (proc_parse_hidepid_param(fc, param))
> +			return -EINVAL;
>  		break;
>  
>  	case Opt_subset: