Aleksa Sarai writes:
>
> Felix reported weird behaviour on 4.16.0-rc6 with regards to mqueue[1],
> which was introduced by 36735a6a2b5e ("mqueue: switch to on-demand
> creation of internal mount").
>
> Basically, the reproducer boils down to being able to mount mqueue if
> you create a new user namespace, even if you don't unshare the IPC
> namespace.
>
> Previously this was not possible, and you would get an -EPERM. The mount
> is the *host* mqueue mount, which is being cached and just returned from
> mqueue_mount(). To be honest, I'm not sure if this is safe or not (or if
> it was intentional -- since I'm not familiar with mqueue).
>
> To me it looks like there is a missing permission check. I've included a
> patch below that I've compile-tested, and should block the above case.
> Can someone please tell me if I'm missing something? Is this actually
> safe?
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/36674
After examination of the code it might be safe by chance but it is
definitely wrong. The missing permission checks are needed in the
general case, and sb->s_user_ns needs to be set to ns->user_ns to give
root in the user namespace the appropriate permissions over the
filesystem.
Fixes: 36735a6a2b5e ("mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount")
Reported-by: Felix Abecassis <fabecassis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Unless there are objections I will push these fixes to Linus in a day
or so.
ipc/mqueue.c | 21 +++++++--------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
index d7f309f74dec..832c1ec21318 100644
--- a/ipc/mqueue.c
+++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
@@ -325,9 +325,8 @@ static struct inode *mqueue_get_inode(struct super_block *sb,
static int mqueue_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
{
struct inode *inode;
- struct ipc_namespace *ns = data;
+ struct ipc_namespace *ns = sb->s_fs_info;
- sb->s_fs_info = ns;
sb->s_iflags |= SB_I_NOEXEC | SB_I_NODEV;
sb->s_blocksize = PAGE_SIZE;
sb->s_blocksize_bits = PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -349,9 +348,9 @@ static struct file_system_type mqueue_fs_type;
* Return value is pinned only by reference in ->mq_mnt; it will
* live until ipcns dies. Caller does not need to drop it.
*/
-static struct vfsmount *mq_internal_mount(void)
+static struct vfsmount *mq_internal_mount(void *nsp)
{
- struct ipc_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
+ struct ipc_namespace *ns = nsp;
struct vfsmount *m = ns->mq_mnt;
if (m)
return m;
@@ -373,15 +372,9 @@ static struct dentry *mqueue_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
int flags, const char *dev_name,
void *data)
{
- struct vfsmount *m;
- if (flags & SB_KERNMOUNT)
- return mount_nodev(fs_type, flags, data, mqueue_fill_super);
- m = mq_internal_mount();
- if (IS_ERR(m))
- return ERR_CAST(m);
- atomic_inc(&m->mnt_sb->s_active);
- down_write(&m->mnt_sb->s_umount);
- return dget(m->mnt_root);
+ struct ipc_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->ipc_ns;
+ return mount_ns(fs_type, flags, data, ns, ns->user_ns,
+ mq_internal_mount, mqueue_fill_super);
}
static void init_once(void *foo)
@@ -771,7 +764,7 @@ static int prepare_open(struct dentry *dentry, int oflag, int ro,
static int do_mq_open(const char __user *u_name, int oflag, umode_t mode,
struct mq_attr *attr)
{
- struct vfsmount *mnt = mq_internal_mount();
+ struct vfsmount *mnt = mq_internal_mount(current->nsproxy->ipc_ns);
struct dentry *root;
struct filename *name;
struct path path;
--
2.14.1
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