Re: [PATCH v5 13/16] ima: Move some IMA policy and filesystem related variables into ima_namespace

[Stefan Berger]

On 12/11/21 04:50, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 08:57:11AM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
> > there anything that would prevent us from setns()'ing to that target user
> > namespace so that we would now see that of a user namespace that we are not
> > allowed to see?
> If you're really worried about someone being able to access a securityfs
> instance whose userns doesn't match the userns the securityfs instance
> was mounted in there are multiple ways to fix it. The one that I tend to
> prefer is:
>
>  From e0ff6a8dcc573763568e685dd70d1547efd68df9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:47:37 +0100
> Subject: !!!! HERE BE DRAGONS - COMPLETELY UNTESTED !!!!
>
> securityfs: only allow access to securityfs from within same namespace
>
> Limit opening of securityfs files to callers located in the same namespace.
>
> ---
>   security/inode.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
> index eaccba7017d9..9eaf757c08cb 100644
> --- a/security/inode.c
> +++ b/security/inode.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,35 @@ static struct file_system_type fs_type = {
>   	.fs_flags =	FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
>   };
>   
> +static int securityfs_permission(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
> +				 struct inode *inode, int mask)
> +{
> +	int err;
> +
> +	err = generic_permission(&init_user_ns, inode, mask);
> +	if (!err) {
> +		if (inode->i_sb->s_user_ns != current_user_ns())
> +			err = -EACCES;
> +	}
> +
> +	return err;
> +}
> +
> +const struct inode_operations securityfs_dir_inode_operations = {
> +	.permission	= securityfs_permission,
> +	.lookup		= simple_lookup,
> +};
> +
> +const struct file_operations securityfs_dir_operations = {
> +	.permission	= securityfs_permission,


This interface function on file operations doesn't exist.

I'll use the inode_operations and also hook it to the root dentry of the 
super_block. Then there's no need to have this check on symlinks and 
files...



> +	.open		= dcache_dir_open,
> +	.release	= dcache_dir_close,
> +	.llseek		= dcache_dir_lseek,
> +	.read		= generic_read_dir,
> +	.iterate_shared	= dcache_readdir,
> +	.fsync		= noop_fsync,
> +};
> +
>   /**
>    * securityfs_create_dentry - create a dentry in the securityfs filesystem
>    *
> @@ -167,8 +196,8 @@ static struct dentry *securityfs_create_dentry(const char *name, umode_t mode,
>   	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode);
>   	inode->i_private = data;
>   	if (S_ISDIR(mode)) {
> -		inode->i_op = &simple_dir_inode_operations;
> -		inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
> +		inode->i_op = &securityfs_dir_inode_operations;
> +		inode->i_fop = &securityfs_dir_operations;
>   		inc_nlink(inode);
>   		inc_nlink(dir);
>   	} else if (S_ISLNK(mode)) {