On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 03:28:52PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 2:57 PM Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 05:31:39PM +0200, Christian Göttsche wrote: > > > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > Support file descriptors obtained via O_PATH for extended attribute > > > operations. > > > > > > Extended attributes are for example used by SELinux for the security > > > context of file objects. To avoid time-of-check-time-of-use issues while > > > setting those contexts it is advisable to pin the file in question and > > > operate on a file descriptor instead of the path name. This can be > > > emulated in userspace via /proc/self/fd/NN [1] but requires a procfs, > > > which might not be mounted e.g. inside of chroots, see[2]. > > > > > > [1]: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/7e979b56fd2cee28f647376a7233d2ac2d12ca50 > > > [2]: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux/commit/de285252a1801397306032e070793889c9466845 > > > > > > Original patch by Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fsdevel/patch/20200505095915.11275-6-mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx/ > > > > > > > While this carries a minute risk of someone relying on the property of > > > > xattr syscalls rejecting O_PATH descriptors, it saves the trouble of > > > > introducing another set of syscalls. > > > > > > > > Only file->f_path and file->f_inode are accessed in these functions. > > > > > > > > Current versions return EBADF, hence easy to detect the presense of > > > > this feature and fall back in case it's missing. > > > > > > CC: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > CC: linux-man@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > I'd be somewhat fine with getxattr and listxattr but I'm worried that > > setxattr/removexattr waters down O_PATH semantics even more. I don't > > want O_PATH fds to be useable for operations which are semantically > > equivalent to a write. > > It is not really semantically equivalent to a write if it works on a > O_RDONLY fd already. The fact that it works on a O_RDONLY fd has always been weird. And is probably a bug. If you look at xattr_permission() you can see that it checks for MAY_WRITE for set operations... setxattr() writes to disk for real filesystems. I don't know how much closer to a write this can get. In general, one semantic aberration doesn't justify piling another one on top. (And one thing that speaks for O_RDONLY is at least that it actually opens the file wheres O_PATH doesn't.) > > > > > In sensitive environments such as service management/container runtimes > > we often send O_PATH fds around precisely because it is restricted what > > they can be used for. I'd prefer to not to plug at this string. > > But unless I am mistaken, path_setxattr() and syscall_fsetxattr() > are almost identical w.r.t permission checks and everything else. > > So this change introduces nothing new that a user in said environment > cannot already accomplish with setxattr(). > > Besides, as the commit message said, doing setxattr() on an O_PATH > fd is already possible with setxattr("/proc/self/$fd"), so whatever security > hole you are trying to prevent is already wide open. That is very much a something that we're trying to restrict for this exact reason and is one of the main motivator for upgrade mask in openat2(). If I want to send a O_PATH around I want it to not be upgradable. Aleksa is working on upgrade masks with openat2() (see [1] and part of the original patchset in [2]. O_PATH semantics don't need to become weird. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220526130355.fo6gzbst455fxywy@senku [2]: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20190728010207.9781-8-cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx
