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capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support.
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capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support.patch
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Subject: capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support.
From: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the
_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the
raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but
true.
Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is
software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics
of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer
corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than
they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using
sys_capset().
As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation
for all. It
1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its
legacy value.
2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal
implementation of the preferred magic.
3. depreciates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic
number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2,
the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel
to log a "depreciated" warning so the admin can find applications
that may be using v2 inappropriately.
[User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which
protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first
to support v3 capabilities.]
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/proc/array.c | 2
include/linux/capability.h | 29 ++++++---
kernel/capability.c | 110 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
3 files changed, 94 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/proc/array.c~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support fs/proc/array.c
--- a/fs/proc/array.c~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support
+++ a/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ static void render_cap_t(struct seq_file
seq_printf(m, "%s", header);
CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) {
seq_printf(m, "%08x",
- a->cap[(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S-1) - __capi]);
+ a->cap[(_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S-1) - __capi]);
}
seq_printf(m, "\n");
}
diff -puN include/linux/capability.h~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support include/linux/capability.h
--- a/include/linux/capability.h~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support
+++ a/include/linux/capability.h
@@ -31,11 +31,11 @@ struct task_struct;
#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1 0x19980330
#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1 1
-#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 0x20071026
+#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2 0x20071026 /* depreciated - use v3 */
#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2 2
-#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2
-#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2
+#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3 0x20080522
+#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3 2
typedef struct __user_cap_header_struct {
__u32 version;
@@ -77,10 +77,23 @@ struct vfs_cap_data {
} data[VFS_CAP_U32];
};
-#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifndef __KERNEL__
+
+/*
+ * Backwardly compatible definition for source code - trapped in a
+ * 32-bit world. If you find you need this, please consider using
+ * libcap to untrap yourself...
+ */
+#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1
+#define _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1
+
+#else
+
+#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3
+#define _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3
typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
- __u32 cap[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S];
+ __u32 cap[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
} kernel_cap_t;
#define _USER_CAP_HEADER_SIZE (sizeof(struct __user_cap_header_struct))
@@ -351,7 +364,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
*/
#define CAP_FOR_EACH_U32(__capi) \
- for (__capi = 0; __capi < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S; ++__capi)
+ for (__capi = 0; __capi < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S; ++__capi)
# define CAP_FS_MASK_B0 (CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_CHOWN) \
| CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE) \
@@ -361,7 +374,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
# define CAP_FS_MASK_B1 (CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE))
-#if _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2
+#if _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2
# error Fix up hand-coded capability macro initializers
#else /* HAND-CODED capability initializers */
@@ -372,7 +385,7 @@ typedef struct kernel_cap_struct {
# define CAP_NFSD_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0|CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE), \
CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
-#endif /* _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 */
+#endif /* _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S != 2 */
#define CAP_INIT_INH_SET CAP_EMPTY_SET
diff -puN kernel/capability.c~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support kernel/capability.c
--- a/kernel/capability.c~capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support
+++ a/kernel/capability.c
@@ -53,6 +53,68 @@ static void warn_legacy_capability_use(v
}
/*
+ * Version 2 capabilities worked fine, but the linux/capability.h file
+ * that accompanied their introduction encouraged their use without
+ * the necessary user-space source code changes. As such, we have
+ * created a version 3 with equivalent functionality to version 2, but
+ * with a header change to protect legacy source code from using
+ * version 2 when it wanted to use version 1. If your system has code
+ * that trips the following warning, it is using version 2 specific
+ * capabilities and may be doing so insecurely.
+ *
+ * The remedy is to either upgrade your version of libcap (to 2.10+,
+ * if the application is linked against it), or recompile your
+ * application with modern kernel headers and this warning will go
+ * away.
+ */
+
+static void warn_depreciated_v2(void)
+{
+ static int warned = 0;
+ if (!warned) {
+ char name[sizeof(current->comm)];
+
+ printk(KERN_INFO "warning: `%s' uses depreciated v2"
+ " capabilities in a way that may be insecure.\n",
+ get_task_comm(name, current));
+ warned = 1;
+ }
+}
+
+/*
+ * Version check. Return the number of u32s in each capability flag
+ * array, or a negative value on error.
+ */
+static int cap_validate_magic(cap_user_header_t header, unsigned *tocopy)
+{
+ __u32 version;
+
+ if (get_user(version, &header->version))
+ return -EFAULT;
+
+ switch (version) {
+ case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1:
+ warn_legacy_capability_use();
+ *tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1;
+ break;
+ case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2:
+ warn_depreciated_v2();
+ /*
+ * fall through - v3 is otherwise equivalent to v2.
+ */
+ case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3:
+ *tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3;
+ break;
+ default:
+ if (put_user(_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
* For sys_getproccap() and sys_setproccap(), any of the three
* capability set pointers may be NULL -- indicating that that set is
* uninteresting and/or not to be changed.
@@ -71,27 +133,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capget(cap_user_head
{
int ret = 0;
pid_t pid;
- __u32 version;
struct task_struct *target;
unsigned tocopy;
kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP;
- if (get_user(version, &header->version))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- switch (version) {
- case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1:
- warn_legacy_capability_use();
- tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1;
- break;
- case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2:
- tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2;
- break;
- default:
- if (put_user(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version))
- return -EFAULT;
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy);
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return ret;
if (get_user(pid, &header->pid))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -118,7 +166,7 @@ out:
spin_unlock(&task_capability_lock);
if (!ret) {
- struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S];
+ struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
unsigned i;
for (i = 0; i < tocopy; i++) {
@@ -128,7 +176,7 @@ out:
}
/*
- * Note, in the case, tocopy < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S,
+ * Note, in the case, tocopy < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S,
* we silently drop the upper capabilities here. This
* has the effect of making older libcap
* implementations implicitly drop upper capability
@@ -240,30 +288,16 @@ static inline int cap_set_all(kernel_cap
*/
asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data)
{
- struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S];
+ struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
unsigned i, tocopy;
kernel_cap_t inheritable, permitted, effective;
- __u32 version;
struct task_struct *target;
int ret;
pid_t pid;
- if (get_user(version, &header->version))
- return -EFAULT;
-
- switch (version) {
- case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1:
- warn_legacy_capability_use();
- tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1;
- break;
- case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2:
- tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2;
- break;
- default:
- if (put_user(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version))
- return -EFAULT;
- return -EINVAL;
- }
+ ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy);
+ if (ret != 0)
+ return ret;
if (get_user(pid, &header->pid))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -281,7 +315,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_head
permitted.cap[i] = kdata[i].permitted;
inheritable.cap[i] = kdata[i].inheritable;
}
- while (i < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S) {
+ while (i < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S) {
effective.cap[i] = 0;
permitted.cap[i] = 0;
inheritable.cap[i] = 0;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from morgan@xxxxxxxxxx are
capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support.patch
capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support-fix.patch
capabilities-remain-source-compatible-with-32-bit-raw-legacy-capability-support-fix-fix.patch
security-protect-legacy-apps-from-insufficient-privilege.patch
security-protect-legacy-apps-from-insufficient-privilege-cleanup.patch
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