Re: [PATCH] capabilities: require CAP_SETFCAP to map uid 0 (v3.2)

[Eric W. Biederman]

Guiseppe can you take a look at this?

This is a second attempt at tightening up the semantics of writing to
file capabilities from a user namespace.

The first attempt was reverted with 3b0c2d3eaa83 ("Revert 95ebabde382c
("capabilities: Don't allow writing ambiguous v3 file capabilities")"),
which corrected the issue reported in:
https://github.com/containers/buildah/issues/3071

There is a report the podman testsuite passes.  While different this
looks in many ways much more strict than the code that was reverted.  So
while I can imagine this change doesn't cause problems as is, I will be
surprised.

Eric



"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> A process running as uid 0 but without cap_setfcap currently can simply
> unshare a new user namespace with uid 0 mapped to 0.  While this task
> will not have new capabilities against the parent namespace, there is
> a loophole due to the way namespaced file capabilities work.  File
> capabilities valid in userns 1 are distinguised from file capabilities
> valid in userns 2 by the kuid which underlies uid 0.  Therefore
> the restricted root process can unshare a new self-mapping namespace,
> add a namespaced file capability onto a file, then use that file
> capability in the parent namespace.
>
> To prevent that, do not allow mapping uid 0 if the process which
> opened the uid_map file does not have CAP_SETFCAP, which is the capability
> for setting file capabilities.
>
> A further wrinkle:  a task can unshare its user namespace, then
> open its uid_map file itself, and map (only) its own uid.  In this
> case we do not have the credential from before unshare,  which was
> potentially more restricted.  So, when creating a user namespace, we
> record whether the creator had CAP_SETFCAP.  Then we can use that
> during map_write().
>
> With this patch:
>
> 1. unprivileged user can still unshare -Ur
>
> ubuntu@caps:~$ unshare -Ur
> root@caps:~# logout
>
> 2. root user can still unshare -Ur
>
> ubuntu@caps:~$ sudo bash
> root@caps:/home/ubuntu# unshare -Ur
> root@caps:/home/ubuntu# logout
>
> 3. root user without CAP_SETFCAP cannot unshare -Ur:
>
> root@caps:/home/ubuntu# /sbin/capsh --drop=cap_setfcap --
> root@caps:/home/ubuntu# /sbin/setcap cap_setfcap=p /sbin/setcap
> unable to set CAP_SETFCAP effective capability: Operation not permitted
> root@caps:/home/ubuntu# unshare -Ur
> unshare: write failed /proc/self/uid_map: Operation not permitted
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Changelog:
>    * fix logic in the case of writing to another task's uid_map
>    * rename 'ns' to 'map_ns', and make a file_ns local variable
>    * use /* comments */
>    * update the CAP_SETFCAP comment in capability.h
>    * rename parent_unpriv to parent_can_setfcap (and reverse the
>      logic)
>    * remove printks
>    * clarify (i hope) the code comments
>    * update capability.h comment
>    * renamed parent_can_setfcap to parent_could_setfcap
>    * made the check its own disallowed_0_mapping() fn
>    * moved the check into new_idmap_permitted
>    * rename disallowed_0_mapping to verify_root_mapping
>    * change verify_root_mapping to Christian's suggested flow
> ---
>  include/linux/user_namespace.h  |  3 ++
>  include/uapi/linux/capability.h |  3 +-
>  kernel/user_namespace.c         | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  3 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> index 64cf8ebdc4ec..f6c5f784be5a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> +++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
> @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ struct user_namespace {
>  	kgid_t			group;
>  	struct ns_common	ns;
>  	unsigned long		flags;
> +	/* parent_could_setfcap: true if the creator if this ns had CAP_SETFCAP
> +	 * in its effective capability set at the child ns creation time. */
> +	bool			parent_could_setfcap;
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
>  	/* List of joinable keyrings in this namespace.  Modification access of
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> index c6ca33034147..2ddb4226cd23 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
> @@ -335,7 +335,8 @@ struct vfs_ns_cap_data {
>  
>  #define CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL    30
>  
> -/* Set or remove capabilities on files */
> +/* Set or remove capabilities on files.
> +   Map uid=0 into a child user namespace. */
>  
>  #define CAP_SETFCAP	     31
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> index af612945a4d0..2ead291177b0 100644
> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> @@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
>  	if (!ns)
>  		goto fail_dec;
>  
> +	ns->parent_could_setfcap = cap_raised(new->cap_effective, CAP_SETFCAP);
>  	ret = ns_alloc_inum(&ns->ns);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto fail_free;
> @@ -841,6 +842,61 @@ static int sort_idmaps(struct uid_gid_map *map)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +/**
> + * verify_root_map() - check the uid 0 mapping
> + * @file: idmapping file
> + * @map_ns: user namespace of the target process
> + * @new_map: requested idmap
> + *
> + * If a process requested a mapping for uid 0 onto uid 0, verify that the
> + * process writing the map had the CAP_SETFCAP capability as the target process
> + * will be able to write fscaps that are valid in ancestor user namespaces.
> + *
> + * Return: true if the mapping is allowed, false if not.
> + */
> +static bool verify_root_map(const struct file *file,
> +			    struct user_namespace *map_ns,
> +			    struct uid_gid_map *new_map)
> +{
> +	int idx;
> +	const struct user_namespace *file_ns = file->f_cred->user_ns;
> +	struct uid_gid_extent *extent0 = NULL;
> +
> +	for (idx = 0; idx < new_map->nr_extents; idx++) {
> +		u32 lower_first;
> +
> +		if (new_map->nr_extents <= UID_GID_MAP_MAX_BASE_EXTENTS)
> +			extent0 = &new_map->extent[idx];
> +		else
> +			extent0 = &new_map->forward[idx];
> +		if (extent0->lower_first == 0)
> +			break;
> +
> +		extent0 = NULL;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (!extent0)
> +		return true;
> +
> +	if (map_ns == file_ns) {
> +		/* The user unshared first and is writing to
> +		 * /proc/self/uid_map.  User already has full
> +		 * capabilites in the new namespace, so verify
> +		 * that the parent has CAP_SETFCAP. */
> +		if (!file_ns->parent_could_setfcap)
> +			return false;
> +	} else {
> +		/* Process p1 is writing to uid_map of p2, who
> +		 * is in a child user namespace to p1's.  So
> +		 * we verify that p1 has CAP_SETFCAP to its
> +		 * own namespace */
> +		if (!file_ns_capable(file, map_ns->parent, CAP_SETFCAP))
> +			return false;
> +	}
> +
> +	return true;
> +}
> +
>  static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>  			 size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
>  			 int cap_setid,
> @@ -848,7 +904,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>  			 struct uid_gid_map *parent_map)
>  {
>  	struct seq_file *seq = file->private_data;
> -	struct user_namespace *ns = seq->private;
> +	struct user_namespace *map_ns = seq->private;
>  	struct uid_gid_map new_map;
>  	unsigned idx;
>  	struct uid_gid_extent extent;
> @@ -895,7 +951,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>  	/*
>  	 * Adjusting namespace settings requires capabilities on the target.
>  	 */
> -	if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !file_ns_capable(file, ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +	if (cap_valid(cap_setid) && !file_ns_capable(file, map_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	/* Parse the user data */
> @@ -965,7 +1021,7 @@ static ssize_t map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>  
>  	ret = -EPERM;
>  	/* Validate the user is allowed to use user id's mapped to. */
> -	if (!new_idmap_permitted(file, ns, cap_setid, &new_map))
> +	if (!new_idmap_permitted(file, map_ns, cap_setid, &new_map))
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	ret = -EPERM;
> @@ -1086,6 +1142,10 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
>  				struct uid_gid_map *new_map)
>  {
>  	const struct cred *cred = file->f_cred;
> +
> +	if (cap_setid == CAP_SETUID && !verify_root_map(file, ns, new_map))
> +		return false;
> +
>  	/* Don't allow mappings that would allow anything that wouldn't
>  	 * be allowed without the establishment of unprivileged mappings.
>  	 */