The dumpable flag captured at execve() is consulted by
__ptrace_may_access() and several /proc owner / visibility checks.
It lives on mm_struct today, which exit_mm() clears from the task
long before the task itself is reaped.
exec_state is anchored to the execve() that established the current
privilege domain. CLONE_VM siblings refcount-share the parent's
exec_state via copy_exec_state(); non-CLONE_VM clones allocate a
fresh exec_state inheriting the parent's dumpable mode and user_ns
reference via task_exec_state_copy(). execve() allocates a fresh
instance (via alloc_task_exec_state() in begin_new_exec()) and
installs it under task_lock + exec_update_lock with
task_exec_state_replace(). init_task uses a static instance.
The dumpable mode now lives on task->exec_state->dumpable.
task->mm->flags no longer carries dumpability; MMF_DUMPABLE_MASK is
removed, but MMF_DUMPABLE_BITS is reserved so MMF_DUMP_FILTER_* bit
positions remain stable for the /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter ABI. The
task->user_dumpable cache bit and its assignment in exit_mm() are
removed; readers go through get_dumpable(task) directly.
coredump_params gains a snapshot field cprm.dumpable, populated from
get_dumpable(current) at vfs_coredump() entry, replacing the previous
__get_dumpable(cprm->mm_flags) consumers in fs/coredump.c and
fs/pidfs.c.
The user namespace recorded at execve() is consulted by
__ptrace_may_access() and by /proc/PID/* owner derivation. Move the
captured user_ns onto task_exec_state, which stays attached to the task
past exit_mm() and across exit_files().
bprm grows a user_ns field staged in bprm_mm_init() with the caller's
user_ns, narrowed by would_dump() to the closest privileged ancestor,
and consumed by exec_mmap() via alloc_task_exec_state(bprm->user_ns).
free_bprm() releases the staging reference.
mm_struct loses ->user_ns entirely. Initializers in init-mm, efi_mm,
and the implicit one in mm_init()/dup_mm()/mm_alloc() are removed;
__mmdrop() drops the matching put_user_ns(). The kthread_use_mm()
WARN_ON_ONCE(!mm->user_ns) is no longer meaningful and goes too.
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260520-work-task_exec_state-v3-4-69f895bc1385@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The function set_security_override_from_ctx() has no in-tree callers
since 6.14. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: subject tweak, merge fuzz]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements
adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and
eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems.
Features:
- Kernel Credential Guards
Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that
allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying
them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated
prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials
only to drop them again later.
The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the
temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in
callers.
- Generic Credential Guards
Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and
revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made
override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free.
- Prepare Credential Guards
Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of
preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current
credentials with them:
- prepare_creds()
- modify new creds
- override_creds()
- revert_creds()
- put_cred()
Cleanups:
- Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed
- Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials
- Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago
- coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner
credential handling
- coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
- coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
- coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
- sev-dev: use guard for path"
* tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
trace: use override credential guard
trace: use prepare credential guard
coredump: use override credential guard
coredump: use prepare credential guard
coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump()
coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
sev-dev: use override credential guards
sev-dev: use prepare credential guard
sev-dev: use guard for path
cred: add prepare credential guard
net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query()
cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()
act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()
smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read()
erofs: use credential guards
...
The namespace tree is, among other things, currently used to support
file handles for namespaces. When a namespace is created it is placed on
the namespace trees and when it is destroyed it is removed from the
namespace trees.
While a namespace is on the namespace trees with a valid reference count
it is possible to reopen it through a namespace file handle. This is all
fine but has some issues that should be addressed.
On current kernels a namespace is visible to userspace in the
following cases:
(1) The namespace is in use by a task.
(2) The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
descriptor or bind-mount).
Note that (2) only cares about direct persistence of the namespace
itself not indirectly via e.g., file->f_cred file references or
similar.
(3) The namespace is a hierarchical namespace type and is the parent of
a single or multiple child namespaces.
Case (3) is interesting because it is possible that a parent namespace
might not fulfill any of (1) or (2), i.e., is invisible to userspace but
it may still be resurrected through the NS_GET_PARENT ioctl().
Currently namespace file handles allow much broader access to namespaces
than what is currently possible via (1)-(3). The reason is that
namespaces may remain pinned for completely internal reasons yet are
inaccessible to userspace.
For example, a user namespace my remain pinned by get_cred() calls to
stash the opener's credentials into file->f_cred. As it stands file
handles allow to resurrect such a users namespace even though this
should not be possible via (1)-(3). This is a fundamental uapi change
that we shouldn't do if we don't have to.
Consider the following insane case: Various architectures support the
CONFIG_MMU_LAZY_TLB_REFCOUNT option which uses lazy TLB destruction.
When this option is set a userspace task's struct mm_struct may be used
for kernel threads such as the idle task and will only be destroyed once
the cpu's runqueue switches back to another task. But because of ptrace()
permission checks struct mm_struct stashes the user namespace of the
task that struct mm_struct originally belonged to. The kernel thread
will take a reference on the struct mm_struct and thus pin it.
So on an idle system user namespaces can be persisted for arbitrary
amounts of time which also means that they can be resurrected using
namespace file handles. That makes no sense whatsoever. The problem is
of course excarabted on large systems with a huge number of cpus.
To handle this nicely we introduce an active reference count which
tracks (1)-(3). This is easy to do as all of these things are already
managed centrally. Only (1)-(3) will count towards the active reference
count and only namespaces which are active may be opened via namespace
file handles.
The problem is that namespaces may be resurrected. Which means that they
can become temporarily inactive and will be reactived some time later.
Currently the only example of this is the SIOGCSKNS socket ioctl. The
SIOCGSKNS ioctl allows to open a network namespace file descriptor based
on a socket file descriptor.
If a socket is tied to a network namespace that subsequently becomes
inactive but that socket is persisted by another process in another
network namespace (e.g., via SCM_RIGHTS of pidfd_getfd()) then the
SIOCGSKNS ioctl will resurrect this network namespace.
So calls to open_related_ns() and open_namespace() will end up
resurrecting the corresponding namespace tree.
Note that the active reference count does not regulate the lifetime of
the namespace itself. This is still done by the normal reference count.
The active reference count can only be elevated if the regular reference
count is elevated.
The active reference count also doesn't regulate the presence of a
namespace on the namespace trees. It only regulates its visiblity to
namespace file handles (and in later patches to listns()).
A namespace remains on the namespace trees from creation until its
actual destruction. This will allow the kernel to always reach any
namespace trivially and it will also enable subsystems like bpf to walk
the namespace lists on the system for tracing or general introspection
purposes.
Note that different namespaces have different visibility lifetimes on
current kernels. While most namespace are immediately released when the
last task using them exits, the user- and pid namespace are persisted
and thus both remain accessible via /proc/<pid>/ns/<ns_type>.
The user namespace lifetime is aliged with struct cred and is only
released through exit_creds(). However, it becomes inaccessible to
userspace once the last task using it is reaped, i.e., when
release_task() is called and all proc entries are flushed. Similarly,
the pid namespace is also visible until the last task using it has been
reaped and the associated pid numbers are freed.
The active reference counts of the user- and pid namespace are
decremented once the task is reaped.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-11-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd3 ("fork: add
clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was
increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags.
However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not
changed from the previous type of unsigned long.
While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits
(CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still
undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise.
Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to
sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific
copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that
no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures.
Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster <schuster.simon@siemens-energy.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add a light version of override/revert_creds(), this should only be
used when the credentials in question will outlive the critical
section and the critical section doesn't change the ->usage of the
credentials.
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Commit 0a31bd5f2b ("KMEM_CACHE(): simplify slab cache creation")
introduces a new macro. Use the new KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of
direct kmem_cache_create() to simplify the creation of SLAB caches.
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
[PM: alignment fixes in both code and description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
This code is rarely (never?) enabled by distros, and it hasn't caught
anything in decades. Let's kill off this legacy debug code.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There are multiple ways to grab references to credentials, and the only
protection we have against overflowing it is the memory required to do
so.
With memory sizes only moving in one direction, let's bump the reference
count to 64-bit and move it outside the realm of feasibly overflowing.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:
- Add new credential functions, get_cred_many() and put_cred_many() to
save some atomic_t operations for a few operations.
While not strictly LSM related, this patchset had been rotting on the
mailing lists for some time and since the LSMs do care a lot about
credentials I thought it reasonable to give this patch a home.
- Five patches to constify different LSM hook parameters.
- Fix a spelling mistake.
* tag 'lsm-pr-20231030' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
lsm: fix a spelling mistake
cred: add get_cred_many and put_cred_many
lsm: constify 'sb' parameter in security_sb_kern_mount()
lsm: constify 'bprm' parameter in security_bprm_committed_creds()
lsm: constify 'bprm' parameter in security_bprm_committing_creds()
lsm: constify 'file' parameter in security_bprm_creds_from_file()
lsm: constify 'sb' parameter in security_quotactl()
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters
with the following properties:
- counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
- a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
- once counter reaches zero, its further
increments aren't allowed
- counter schema uses basic atomic operations
(set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)
Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and
underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead
to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.
The variable group_info.usage is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.
**Important note for maintainers:
Some functions from refcount_t API defined in refcount.h have different
memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. Please check
Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information.
Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides
enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some
rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have
some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage.
For the group_info.usage it might make a difference in following places:
- put_group_info(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only
provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering on success vs. fully
ordered atomic counterpart
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818041456.gonna.009-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Some of the frequent consumers of get_cred and put_cred operate on 2
references on the same creds back-to-back.
Switch them to doing the work in one go instead.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
[PM: removed changelog from commit description]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> wrote:
> Tasks are associated to multiple users at once. Historically and as per
> setrlimit(2) RLIMIT_NPROC is enforce based on real user ID.
>
> The commit 21d1c5e386 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts")
> made the accounting structure "indexed" by euid and hence potentially
> account tasks differently.
>
> The effective user ID may be different e.g. for setuid programs but
> those are exec'd into already existing task (i.e. below limit), so
> different accounting is moot.
>
> Some special setresuid(2) users may notice the difference, justifying
> this fix.
I looked at cred->ucount and it is only used for rlimit operations
that were previously stored in cred->user. Making the fact
cred->ucount can refer to a different user from cred->user a bug,
affecting all uses of cred->ulimit not just RLIMIT_NPROC.
Fix set_cred_ucounts to always use the real uid not the effective uid.
Further simplify set_cred_ucounts by noticing that set_cred_ucounts
somehow retained a draft version of the check to see if alloc_ucounts
was needed that checks the new->user and new->user_ns against the
current_real_cred(). Remove that draft version of the check.
All that matters for setting the cred->ucounts are the user_ns and uid
fields in the cred.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220207121800.5079-4-mkoutny@suse.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220216155832.680775-3-ebiederm@xmission.com
Reported-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Fixes: 21d1c5e386 ("Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Any cred that is destined for use by commit_creds must have a non-NULL
cred->ucounts field. Only curing credential construction is a NULL
cred->ucounts valid. Only abort_creds, put_cred, and put_cred_rcu
needs to deal with a cred with a NULL ucount. As set_cred_ucounts is
non of those case don't confuse people by handling something that can
not happen.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/871r4irzds.fsf_-_@disp2133
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Setting cred->ucounts in cred_alloc_blank does not make sense. The
uid and user_ns are deliberately not set in cred_alloc_blank but
instead the setting is delayed until key_change_session_keyring.
So move dealing with ucounts into key_change_session_keyring as well.
Unfortunately that movement of get_ucounts adds a new failure mode to
key_change_session_keyring. I do not see anything stopping the parent
process from calling setuid and changing the relevant part of it's
cred while keyctl_session_to_parent is running making it fundamentally
necessary to call get_ucounts in key_change_session_keyring. Which
means that the new failure mode cannot be avoided.
A failure of key_change_session_keyring results in a single threaded
parent keeping it's existing credentials. Which results in the parent
process not being able to access the session keyring and whichever
keys are in the new keyring.
Further get_ucounts is only expected to fail if the number of bits in
the refernece count for the structure is too few.
Since the code has no other way to report the failure of get_ucounts
and because such failures are not expected to be common add a WARN_ONCE
to report this problem to userspace.
Between the WARN_ONCE and the parent process not having access to
the keys in the new session keyring I expect any failure of get_ucounts
will be noticed and reported and we can find another way to handle this
condition. (Possibly by just making ucounts->count an atomic_long_t).
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 905ae01c4a ("Add a reference to ucounts for each cred")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7k0ias0uf.fsf_-_@disp2133
Tested-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Pull user namespace rlimit handling update from Eric Biederman:
"This is the work mainly by Alexey Gladkov to limit rlimits to the
rlimits of the user that created a user namespace, and to allow users
to have stricter limits on the resources created within a user
namespace."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
cred: add missing return error code when set_cred_ucounts() failed
ucounts: Silence warning in dec_rlimit_ucounts
ucounts: Set ucount_max to the largest positive value the type can hold
kselftests: Add test to check for rlimit changes in different user namespaces
Reimplement RLIMIT_MEMLOCK on top of ucounts
Reimplement RLIMIT_SIGPENDING on top of ucounts
Reimplement RLIMIT_MSGQUEUE on top of ucounts
Reimplement RLIMIT_NPROC on top of ucounts
Use atomic_t for ucounts reference counting
Add a reference to ucounts for each cred
Increase size of ucounts to atomic_long_t
Christian Brauner (Amutable)
Casey SchauflerandPaul Moore
Linus Torvalds
Simon SchusterandChristian Brauner
Vinicius Costa GomesandAmir Goldstein
Kunwu ChanandPaul Moore
Jens AxboeandLinus Torvalds
Elena ReshetovaandKees Cook
Mateusz GuzikandPaul Moore
tiozhangandAndrew Morton
Peter Zijlstra
Eric W. Biederman
Alexey GladkovandEric W. Biederman
Yang YingliangandEric W. Biederman