Re: [RFC 20/20] ima: Setup securityfs_ns for IMA namespace

From: Stefan Berger
Date: Wed Dec 01 2021 - 15:25:50 EST



On 12/1/21 14:21, James Bottomley wrote:
On Wed, 2021-12-01 at 13:11 -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 12/1/21 12:56, James Bottomley wrote:
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I tried this with runc and a user namespace active mapping uid 1000
on the host to uid 0 in the container. There I run into the problem
that all of the files and directories without the above work-around
are mapped to 'nobody', just like all the files in sysfs in this case
are also mapped to nobody. This code resolved the issue.
So I applied your patches with the permission shift commented out and
instrumented inode_alloc() to see where it might be failing and I
actually find it all works as expected for me:

ejb@testdeb:~> unshare -r --user --mount --ima
root@testdeb:~# mount -t securityfs_ns none /sys/kernel/security
root@testdeb:~# ls -l /sys/kernel/security/ima/
total 0
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 19:11 ascii_runtime_measurements
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 19:11 binary_runtime_measurements
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 19:11 policy
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 19:11 runtime_measurements_count
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 Dec 1 19:11 violations

I think your problem is something to do with how runc is installing the
uid/gid mappings. If it's installing them after the security_ns inodes
are created then they get the -1 value (because no mappings exist in
s_user_ns). I can even demonstrate this by forcing unshare to enter
the IMA namespace before writing the mapping values and I'll see
"nobody nogroup" above like you do.

I am surprised you get this mapping even after commenting the permission adjustments... it doesn't work for me when I comment them out:

[stefanb@ima-ns-dev rootfs]$ unshare -r --user --mount
[root@ima-ns-dev rootfs]# mount -t securityfs_ns none /sys/kernel/security/
[root@ima-ns-dev rootfs]# cd /sys/kernel/security/ima/
[root@ima-ns-dev ima]# ls -l
total 0
-r--r-----. 1 nobody nobody 0 Dec  1 15:20 ascii_runtime_measurements
-r--r-----. 1 nobody nobody 0 Dec  1 15:20 binary_runtime_measurements
-rw-------. 1 nobody nobody 0 Dec  1 15:20 policy
-r--r-----. 1 nobody nobody 0 Dec  1 15:20 runtime_measurements_count
-r--r-----. 1 nobody nobody 0 Dec  1 15:20 violations
[root@ima-ns-dev ima]# cat /proc/self/uid_map
         0       1000          1
[root@ima-ns-dev ima]# cat /proc/self/gid_map
         0       1000          1

The initialization of securityfs and setup of files and directories happens at the same time as the IMA namespace is created. At this time there are no user mappings available, so that's why I need to make the adjustments 'late'.

   Stefan