Re: [PATCH 1/2] ecryptfs: fix uid translation for setxattr on security.capability

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On 2021-01-25 14:25:38, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:31 PM Tyler Hicks <code@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 2021-01-19 17:22:03, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > Prior to commit 7c03e2cda4a5 ("vfs: move cap_convert_nscap() call into
> > > vfs_setxattr()") the translation of nscap->rootid did not take stacked
> > > filesystems (overlayfs and ecryptfs) into account.
> > >
> > > That patch fixed the overlay case, but made the ecryptfs case worse.
> >
> > Thanks for sending a fix!
> >
> > I know that you don't have an eCryptfs setup to test with but I'm at a
> > loss about how to test this from the userns/fscaps side of things. Do
> > you have a sequence of unshare/setcap/getcap commands that I can run on
> > a file inside of an eCryptfs mount to verify that the bug exists after
> > 7c03e2cda4a5 and then again to verify that this patch fixes the bug?
> 
> You need two terminals:
> $ = <USER>
> # = root
> 
> $ unshare -Um
> $ echo $$
> <PID>
> # echo "0 1000 1" > uid_map
> # cp uid_map gid_map
> # echo 1000 2000 1 >> uid_map
> # echo 2000 3000 1 >> uid_map
> # cat uid_map > /proc/<PID>/uid_map
> # cat gid_map > /proc/<PID>/gid_map
> $ mkdir ~/tmp ~/mnt
> $ mount -t tmpfs tmpfs ~/tmp
> $ pwd
> /home/<USER>
> # nsenter -t <PID> -m
> # [setup ecryptfs on /home/<USER>/mnt using /home/<USER>/tmp]
> $ cd ~/mnt
> $ touch test
> $ /sbin/setcap -n 1000 cap_dac_override+eip test
> $ /sbin/getcap -n test
> test = cap_dac_override+eip [rootid=1000]
> 
> Without the patch, I'm thinking that it will do a double translate and
> end up with rootid=2000 in the user namespace, but I might well have
> messed it up...
> 
> Let me know how this goes.

Spot-on instructions. Thank you for taking the time to provide the
steps.

I was able to repro the bug and verify the fix. The change visually
looks good to me and it passed through the eCryptfs regression tests.

I've pushed it to the eCryptfs next branch and I plan to submit it to
Linus on Thursday. Thanks again!

Tyler

> 
> Thanks,
> Miklos
> 



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