On Sun, Jun 09, 2024 at 08:18:48PM GMT, Paul Moore wrote: > On Sun, Jun 9, 2024 at 6:40 AM Jonathan Calmels <jcalmels@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > This patch allows modifying the various capabilities of the struct cred > > in BPF-LSM hooks. More specifically, the userns_create hook called > > prior to creating a new user namespace. > > > > With the introduction of userns capabilities, this effectively provides > > a simple way for LSMs to control the capabilities granted to a user > > namespace and all its descendants. > > > > Update the selftests accordingly by dropping CAP_SYS_ADMIN in > > namespaces and checking the resulting task's bounding set. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jonathan Calmels <jcalmels@xxxxxxxx> > > --- > > include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 2 +- > > include/linux/security.h | 4 +- > > kernel/bpf/bpf_lsm.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++ > > security/apparmor/lsm.c | 2 +- > > security/security.c | 6 +- > > security/selinux/hooks.c | 2 +- > > .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/deny_namespace.c | 12 ++-- > > .../selftests/bpf/progs/test_deny_namespace.c | 7 ++- > > 8 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > I'm not sure we want to go down the path of a LSM modifying the POSIX > capabilities of a task, other than the capabilities/commoncap LSM. It > sets a bad precedent and could further complicate issues around LSM > ordering. Well unless I'm misunderstanding, this does allow modifying the capabilities/commoncap LSM through BTF. The reason for allowing `userns_create` to be modified is that it is functionally very similar to `cred_prepare` in that it operates with new creds (but specific to user namespaces because of reasons detailed in [1]). There were some concerns in previous threads that the userns caps by themselves wouldn't be granular enough, hence the LSM integration. Ubuntu for example, currently has to resort to a hardcoded profile transition to achieve this [2]. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7cd4c5c2101cb092db00f61f69d24380cf7a0ee8 [2] https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/noble/commit/?id=43a6c29532f517179fea8c94949d657d71f4fc13