On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 2:41 AM Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 6/2/23 02:29, Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 4:29 AM Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 6/1/23 00:32, Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> >>> On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 5:52 AM Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> On 5/24/23 23:33, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> >>>>> From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Inode operations that create a new filesystem object such as ->mknod,
> >>>>> ->create, ->mkdir() and others don't take a {g,u}id argument explicitly.
> >>>>> Instead the caller's fs{g,u}id is used for the {g,u}id of the new
> >>>>> filesystem object.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cephfs mds creation request argument structures mirror this filesystem
> >>>>> behavior. They don't encode a {g,u}id explicitly. Instead the caller's
> >>>>> fs{g,u}id that is always sent as part of any mds request is used by the
> >>>>> servers to set the {g,u}id of the new filesystem object.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In order to ensure that the correct {g,u}id is used map the caller's
> >>>>> fs{g,u}id for creation requests. This doesn't require complex changes.
> >>>>> It suffices to pass in the relevant idmapping recorded in the request
> >>>>> message. If this request message was triggered from an inode operation
> >>>>> that creates filesystem objects it will have passed down the relevant
> >>>>> idmaping. If this is a request message that was triggered from an inode
> >>>>> operation that doens't need to take idmappings into account the initial
> >>>>> idmapping is passed down which is an identity mapping and thus is
> >>>>> guaranteed to leave the caller's fs{g,u}id unchanged.,u}id is sent.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The last few weeks before Christmas 2021 I have spent time not just
> >>>>> reading and poking the cephfs kernel code but also took a look at the
> >>>>> ceph mds server userspace to ensure I didn't miss some subtlety.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This made me aware of one complication to solve. All requests send the
> >>>>> caller's fs{g,u}id over the wire. The caller's fs{g,u}id matters for the
> >>>>> server in exactly two cases:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 1. to set the ownership for creation requests
> >>>>> 2. to determine whether this client is allowed access on this server
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Case 1. we already covered and explained. Case 2. is only relevant for
> >>>>> servers where an explicit uid access restriction has been set. That is
> >>>>> to say the mds server restricts access to requests coming from a
> >>>>> specific uid. Servers without uid restrictions will grant access to
> >>>>> requests from any uid by setting MDS_AUTH_UID_ANY.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Case 2. introduces the complication because the caller's fs{g,u}id is
> >>>>> not just used to record ownership but also serves as the {g,u}id used
> >>>>> when checking access to the server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Consider a user mounting a cephfs client and creating an idmapped mount
> >>>>> from it that maps files owned by uid 1000 to be owned uid 0:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> mount -t cephfs -o [...] /unmapped
> >>>>> mount-idmapped --map-mount 1000:0:1 /idmapped
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That is to say if the mounted cephfs filesystem contains a file "file1"
> >>>>> which is owned by uid 1000:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - looking at it via /unmapped/file1 will report it as owned by uid 1000
> >>>>> (One can think of this as the on-disk value.)
> >>>>> - looking at it via /idmapped/file1 will report it as owned by uid 0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now, consider creating new files via the idmapped mount at /idmapped.
> >>>>> When a caller with fs{g,u}id 1000 creates a file "file2" by going
> >>>>> through the idmapped mount mounted at /idmapped it will create a file
> >>>>> that is owned by uid 1000 on-disk, i.e.:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - looking at it via /unmapped/file2 will report it as owned by uid 1000
> >>>>> - looking at it via /idmapped/file2 will report it as owned by uid 0
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Now consider an mds server that has a uid access restriction set and
> >>>>> only grants access to requests from uid 0.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> If the client sends a creation request for a file e.g. /idmapped/file2
> >>>>> it will send the caller's fs{g,u}id idmapped according to the idmapped
> >>>>> mount. So if the caller has fs{g,u}id 1000 it will be mapped to {g,u}id
> >>>>> 0 in the idmapped mount and will be sent over the wire allowing the
> >>>>> caller access to the mds server.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> However, if the caller is not issuing a creation request the caller's
> >>>>> fs{g,u}id will be send without the mount's idmapping applied. So if the
> >>>>> caller that just successfully created a new file on the restricted mds
> >>>>> server sends a request as fs{g,u}id 1000 access will be refused. This
> >>>>> however is inconsistent.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> From my perspective the root of the problem lies in the fact that
> >>>>> creation requests implicitly infer the ownership from the {g,u}id that
> >>>>> gets sent along with every mds request.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have thought of multiple ways of addressing this problem but the one I
> >>>>> prefer is to give all mds requests that create a filesystem object a
> >>>>> proper, separate {g,u}id field entry in the argument struct. This is,
> >>>>> for example how ->setattr mds requests work.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This way the caller's fs{g,u}id can be used consistenly for server
> >>>>> access checks and is separated from the ownership for new filesystem
> >>>>> objects.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Servers could then be updated to refuse creation requests whenever the
> >>>>> {g,u}id used for access checking doesn't match the {g,u}id used for
> >>>>> creating the filesystem object just as is done for setattr requests on a
> >>>>> uid restricted server. But I am, of course, open to other suggestions.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> fs/ceph/mds_client.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> >>>>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> >>>>> index 810c3db2e369..e4265843b838 100644
> >>>>> --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> >>>>> +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> >>>>> @@ -2583,6 +2583,8 @@ static struct ceph_msg *create_request_message(struct ceph_mds_session *session,
> >>>>> void *p, *end;
> >>>>> int ret;
> >>>>> bool legacy = !(session->s_con.peer_features & CEPH_FEATURE_FS_BTIME);
> >>>>> + kuid_t caller_fsuid;
> >>>>> + kgid_t caller_fsgid;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ret = set_request_path_attr(req->r_inode, req->r_dentry,
> >>>>> req->r_parent, req->r_path1, req->r_ino1.ino,
> >>>>> @@ -2651,10 +2653,22 @@ static struct ceph_msg *create_request_message(struct ceph_mds_session *session,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> head->mdsmap_epoch = cpu_to_le32(mdsc->mdsmap->m_epoch);
> >>>>> head->op = cpu_to_le32(req->r_op);
> >>>>> - head->caller_uid = cpu_to_le32(from_kuid(&init_user_ns,
> >>>>> - req->r_cred->fsuid));
> >>>>> - head->caller_gid = cpu_to_le32(from_kgid(&init_user_ns,
> >>>>> - req->r_cred->fsgid));
> >>>>> + /*
> >>>>> + * Inode operations that create filesystem objects based on the
> >>>>> + * caller's fs{g,u}id like ->mknod(), ->create(), ->mkdir() etc. don't
> >>>>> + * have separate {g,u}id fields in their respective structs in the
> >>>>> + * ceph_mds_request_args union. Instead the caller_{g,u}id field is
> >>>>> + * used to set ownership of the newly created inode by the mds server.
> >>>>> + * For these inode operations we need to send the mapped fs{g,u}id over
> >>>>> + * the wire. For other cases we simple set req->r_mnt_idmap to the
> >>>>> + * initial idmapping meaning the unmapped fs{g,u}id is sent.
> >>>>> + */
> >>>>> + caller_fsuid = from_vfsuid(req->r_mnt_idmap, &init_user_ns,
> >>>>> + VFSUIDT_INIT(req->r_cred->fsuid));
> >>>>> + caller_fsgid = from_vfsgid(req->r_mnt_idmap, &init_user_ns,
> >>>>> + VFSGIDT_INIT(req->r_cred->fsgid));
> >>>>> + head->caller_uid = cpu_to_le32(from_kuid(&init_user_ns, caller_fsuid));
> >>>>> + head->caller_gid = cpu_to_le32(from_kgid(&init_user_ns, caller_fsgid));
> >>>> Hi Alexander,
> >>> Dear Xiubo,
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for paying attention to this series!
> >>>
> >>>> You didn't answer Jeff and Greg's concerns in the first version
> >>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/ceph-devel/msg53356.html.
> >>> I've tried to respin discussion in the -v1 thread:
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230519134420.2d04e5f70aad15679ab566fc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>
> >>> No one replied, so I decided to send rebased and slightly changed -v2,
> >>> where I've fixed this:
> >>> https://lore.kernel.org/all/041afbfd171915d62ab9a93c7a35d9c9d5c5bf7b.camel@xxxxxxxxxx/
> >>>
> >>>> I am also confused as Greg mentioned. If we just map the ids as 1000:0
> >>>> and created a file and then map the ids 1000:10, then the file couldn't
> >>>> be accessible, right ? Is this normal and as expected ?
> >>> This can be a problem only if filtering based on the UID is turned on
> >>> on the server side (which is a relatively rare case).
> >>>
> >>> idmapped mounts are not about mapping a caller UID/GID, idmapped
> >>> mounts are about mapping inode owner's UID/GID.
> >>> So, for example if you have UID 1000 (on disk) and have an idmapping
> >>> 1000:0 then it will be shown as owned by 0.
> >> My understanding was that on the disk the files' owner UID should be
> >> 1000 always, while in the client side it will show file's owner as the
> >> mapped UID 0 with an idmapping 1000:0.
> > Hi, Xiubo!
> >
> >> This should be the same as what you mentioned above, right ?
> > Right.
> >
> > Let me show a real output from a real command line experiment :-)
> >
> > 1. Mount cephfs
> >
> > mount.ceph admin@XYZ.cephfs=/ /mnt/ceph -o
> > mon_addr=127.0.0.1:6789,secret=very_secret_key
> >
> > 2. Make 1000:1000 a root dentry owner (it will be convenient because
> > we want to use mapping 1000:0:1 for simplicity)
> >
> > chown 1000:1000 /mnt/ceph
> >
> > 3. create an idmapped mount based on a regular /mnt/ceph mount using a
> > mount-idmapped tool that was written by Christian.
> > [ taken from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/brauner/mount-idmapped/master/mount-idmapped.c
> > ]
> >
> > ./mount-idmapped --map-mount b:1000:0:1 /mnt/ceph /mnt/ceph_idmapped
> >
> > "b" stands for "both", so we are creating a mapping of length 1 for
> > both UID and GID.
> > 1000 is a UID/GID "on-disk", 0 is a mapped UID/GID.
> >
> > 4. Just to be precise, let's look at which UID/GID we have now.
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ls -lan /mnt/ceph
> > total 4
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 1000 0 Jun 1 17:51 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jun 1 16:55 ..
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ls -lan /mnt/ceph_idmapped
> > total 4
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 0 0 0 Jun 1 17:51 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jun 1 16:55 ..
> >
> > 5. Now let's create a bunch of files with different owners and through
> > different mounts (idmapped/non-idmapped).
> >
> > 5.1. Create a file from 0:0 through the idmapped mount (it should
> > appear as 1000:1000 on disk)
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo -u#0 -g#0 touch
> > /mnt/ceph_idmapped/created_through_idmapped_mnt_with_uid0
> >
> > 5.2. Create a file from 1000:1000 through the idmapped mount (should
> > fail because 1000:1000 is not a valid UID/GID as it can't be mapped
> > back to the "on-disk" UID/GID set).
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo -u#1000 -g#1000 touch
> > /mnt/ceph_idmapped/created_through_idmapped_mnt_with_uid1000
> > touch: cannot touch
> > '/mnt/ceph_idmapped/created_through_idmapped_mnt_with_uid1000': Value
> > too large for defined data type
> >
> > ... and we've got EOVERFLOW. That's correct!
> >
> > 5.3. Create a file from 0:0 but through the regular mount. (it should
> > appear as overflowuid(=65534) in idmapped mount, because 0:0 on-disk
> > is not mapped to the UID/GID set).
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo -u#0 -g#0 touch
> > /mnt/ceph/created_directly_with_uid0
> >
> > 5.4. Create a file from 1000:1000 but through the regular mount. (it
> > should appear as 0:0 in idmapped mount, because 1000 (on-disk) mapped
> > to 0).
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# sudo -u#1000 -g#1000 touch
> > /mnt/ceph/created_directly_with_uid1000
> >
> > 6. Now let's look on the result:
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ls -lan /mnt/ceph
> > total 4
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 1000 3 Jun 1 17:54 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jun 1 16:55 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 Jun 1 17:54 created_directly_with_uid0
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jun 1 17:54 created_directly_with_uid1000
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 0 Jun 1 17:53 created_through_idmapped_mnt_with_uid0
> >
> > root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# ls -lan /mnt/ceph_idmapped
> > total 4
> > drwxrwxrwx 2 0 0 3 Jun 1 17:54 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 0 0 4096 Jun 1 16:55 ..
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 65534 65534 0 Jun 1 17:54 created_directly_with_uid0
> > -rw-rw-r-- 1 0 0 0 Jun 1 17:54 created_directly_with_uid1000
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 0 Jun 1 17:53
> > created_through_idmapped_mnt_with_uid0
> >
> >>> If you create a file from a user with UID 0 then you will get UID 1000
> >>> on disk. To achieve that, we map a current user fs{g,u}id
> >>> when sending a creation request according to the idmapping mount to
> >>> make things consistent.
> >> As you know the cephfs MDSs will use the creation requests' caller UID
> >> as the owner's UID when creating new inodes.
> > Yes, that's why we have to map a caller UID to end up with the correct
> > value of a file owner.
> >
> Hmm, I think my understanding was incorrect. This patch here is trying
> to get the correct value of UID 1000 from a mapped mount, which the UID 0.
>
>
> >> Which means that if the creation requests switches to use the mapped UID
> >> 0 as the caller UID then the file's owner will be UID 0 instead of UID
> >> 1000 in cephfs MDSs. Does this what this patch want to do ?
> > In my example we have a caller with UID equal 0, then the mapped UID
> > will be 1000. So, the file will be created with UID = 1000.
>
> Okay, thanks for your above example it helped me to understand the idmap
> logic. Before I tried to read the xfstests test cases and VFS code about
> the idmap but didn't totally done yet.
Yeah, it's not trivial (especially when it's combined with a network
filesystem ;-) ).
But Christian had written a good documentation about mount idmappings:
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/idmappings.rst
>
> I will test and review the patches again today or next week.
Huge thanks, Xiubo!
>
> Thanks
>
> - Xiubo
>
> >>
> >>> But when a user opens a file,
> >>> we are sending UID/GID as they are without applying an idmapping.
> >> If my understanding is correct above, then when opening the file with
> >> non-mapped UID 1000 it may fail because the files' owner is UID 0.
> >>
> >> Correct me if my understanding is wrong.
> >>
> >>> Of
> >>> course, generic_permission() kernel helper is aware of
> >>> mount idmapping
> >> Yeah, this was also what I thought it should be.
> >>
> >> There is another client auth feature [1] for cephfs. The MDS will allow
> >> us to set a path restriction for specify UID, more detail please see [2]:
> >>
> >> allow rw path=/dir1 uid=1000 gids=1000
> >>
> >> This may cause the creation requests to fail if you set the caller UID
> >> to the mapped UID.
> > Yes, that can be a problem of course. But it will only affect users
> > who want to use this feature and it doesn't open any security holes.
> > It's just a limitation of this approach. Unfortunately it's barely
> > fixable without massive VFS changes and until we have no real use
> > cases
> > for this combination of idmapped mounts + MDS UID/GID-based path
> > restriction we are not sure that it makes sense to implement this
> > right now.
> >
> >>
> >> [1] https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/cephfs/client-auth/
> >> [2] https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/59388
> > Thanks, I'll take a look closer at that!
> >
> > Thanks for closely looking into this patchset, Xiubo!
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Alex
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> - Xiubo
> >>
> >>> and before open request will go to the server we will
> >>> check that current user is allowed to open this file (and during
> >>> this check UID/GID of a current user and UID/GID of the file owner
> >>> will be properly compared). I.e. this issue is only relevant for the
> >>> case
> >>> when we have additional permission checks on the network file system
> >>> server side.
> >>>
> >>>> IMO the idmapping should be client-side feature and we should make it
> >>>> consistent by using the unmapped fs{g,u}id always here.
> >>> To make the current user fs{g,u}id always idmapped we need to make
> >>> really big changes in the VFS layer. And it's not obvious
> >>> that it justifies the cost. Because this particular feature with
> >>> Cephfs idmapped mounts is already used/tested with LXD/LXC workloads
> >>> and it works perfectly well. And as far as I know, LXD/LXC were the
> >>> first idmapped mount adopters. IMHO, it's better to
> >>> start from this approach and if someone will want to extend this
> >>> functionality for network filesystems and want to map fs{g,u}id which
> >>> are sent over the
> >>> wire we will take a look at that. Because anyway, integration with
> >>> Cephfs is important for the LXD project and we are looking closely at
> >>> this.
> >>>
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>> Alex
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> - Xiubo
> >>>>
> >>>>> head->ino = cpu_to_le64(req->r_deleg_ino);
> >>>>> head->args = req->r_args;
> >>>>>
>
