[PATCH net-next v2 2/2] ipvs: allow some sysctls in non-init user namespaces

[Alexander Mikhalitsyn]

Let's make all IPVS sysctls writtable even when
network namespace is owned by non-initial user namespace.

Let's make a few sysctls to be read-only for non-privileged users:
- sync_qlen_max
- sync_sock_size
- run_estimation
- est_cpulist
- est_nice

I'm trying to be conservative with this to prevent
introducing any security issues in there. Maybe,
we can allow more sysctls to be writable, but let's
do this on-demand and when we see real use-case.

This patch is motivated by user request in the LXC
project [1]. Having this can help with running some
Kubernetes [2] or Docker Swarm [3] workloads inside the system
containers.

[1] https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4278
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/b722d017a34b300a2284b890448e5a605f21d01e/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go#L103
[3] https://github.com/moby/libnetwork/blob/3797618f9a38372e8107d8c06f6ae199e1133ae8/osl/namespace_linux.go#L682

Cc: Stéphane Graber <stgraber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 21 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index daa62b8b2dd1..f84f091626ef 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -4272,6 +4272,7 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	struct ctl_table *tbl;
 	int idx, ret;
 	size_t ctl_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(vs_vars);
+	bool unpriv = net->user_ns != &init_user_ns;
 
 	atomic_set(&ipvs->dropentry, 0);
 	spin_lock_init(&ipvs->dropentry_lock);
@@ -4286,12 +4287,6 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 		tbl = kmemdup(vs_vars, sizeof(vs_vars), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (tbl == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		/* Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users */
-		if (net->user_ns != &init_user_ns) {
-			tbl[0].procname = NULL;
-			ctl_table_size = 0;
-		}
 	} else
 		tbl = vs_vars;
 	/* Initialize sysctl defaults */
@@ -4317,10 +4312,17 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports = 1;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_persist_mode;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max = nr_free_buffer_pages() / 32;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size = 0;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size;
+
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_cache_bypass;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_expire_nodest_conn;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sloppy_tcp;
@@ -4343,15 +4345,22 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_conn_reuse_mode;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_schedule_icmp;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_ignore_tunneled;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation = 1;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation;
 
 	ipvs->est_cpulist_valid = 0;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_cpulist;
 
 	ipvs->sysctl_est_nice = IPVS_EST_NICE;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_nice;
 
-- 
2.34.1