This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tracefs: Set all files to the same group ownership as the mount option
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tracefs-set-all-files-to-the-same-group-ownership-as-the-mount-option.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 48b27b6b5191e2e1f2798cd80877b6e4ef47c351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 17:17:29 -0500
Subject: tracefs: Set all files to the same group ownership as the mount option
From: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 48b27b6b5191e2e1f2798cd80877b6e4ef47c351 upstream.
As people have been asking to allow non-root processes to have access to
the tracefs directory, it was considered best to only allow groups to have
access to the directory, where it is easier to just set the tracefs file
system to a specific group (as other would be too dangerous), and that way
the admins could pick which processes would have access to tracefs.
Unfortunately, this broke tooling on Android that expected the other bit
to be set. For some special cases, for non-root tools to trace the system,
tracefs would be mounted and change the permissions of the top level
directory which gave access to all running tasks permission to the
tracing directory. Even though this would be dangerous to do in a
production environment, for testing environments this can be useful.
Now with the new changes to not allow other (which is still the proper
thing to do), it breaks the testing tooling. Now more code needs to be
loaded on the system to change ownership of the tracing directory.
The real solution is to have tracefs honor the gid=xxx option when
mounting. That is,
(tracing group tracing has value 1003)
mount -t tracefs -o gid=1003 tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing
should have it that all files in the tracing directory should be of the
given group.
Copy the logic from d_walk() from dcache.c and simplify it for the mount
case of tracefs if gid is set. All the files in tracefs will be walked and
their group will be set to the value passed in.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211207171729.2a54e1b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 49d67e445742 ("tracefs: Have tracefs directories not set OTH permission bits by default")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/inode.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 72 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c
@@ -162,6 +162,77 @@ struct tracefs_fs_info {
struct tracefs_mount_opts mount_opts;
};
+static void change_gid(struct dentry *dentry, kgid_t gid)
+{
+ if (!dentry->d_inode)
+ return;
+ dentry->d_inode->i_gid = gid;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Taken from d_walk, but without he need for handling renames.
+ * Nothing can be renamed while walking the list, as tracefs
+ * does not support renames. This is only called when mounting
+ * or remounting the file system, to set all the files to
+ * the given gid.
+ */
+static void set_gid(struct dentry *parent, kgid_t gid)
+{
+ struct dentry *this_parent;
+ struct list_head *next;
+
+ this_parent = parent;
+ spin_lock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+
+ change_gid(this_parent, gid);
+repeat:
+ next = this_parent->d_subdirs.next;
+resume:
+ while (next != &this_parent->d_subdirs) {
+ struct list_head *tmp = next;
+ struct dentry *dentry = list_entry(tmp, struct dentry, d_child);
+ next = tmp->next;
+
+ spin_lock_nested(&dentry->d_lock, DENTRY_D_LOCK_NESTED);
+
+ change_gid(dentry, gid);
+
+ if (!list_empty(&dentry->d_subdirs)) {
+ spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+ spin_release(&dentry->d_lock.dep_map, 1, _RET_IP_);
+ this_parent = dentry;
+ spin_acquire(&this_parent->d_lock.dep_map, 0, 1, _RET_IP_);
+ goto repeat;
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ }
+ /*
+ * All done at this level ... ascend and resume the search.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ascend:
+ if (this_parent != parent) {
+ struct dentry *child = this_parent;
+ this_parent = child->d_parent;
+
+ spin_unlock(&child->d_lock);
+ spin_lock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+
+ /* go into the first sibling still alive */
+ do {
+ next = child->d_child.next;
+ if (next == &this_parent->d_subdirs)
+ goto ascend;
+ child = list_entry(next, struct dentry, d_child);
+ } while (unlikely(child->d_flags & DCACHE_DENTRY_KILLED));
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ goto resume;
+ }
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ spin_unlock(&this_parent->d_lock);
+ return;
+}
+
static int tracefs_parse_options(char *data, struct tracefs_mount_opts *opts)
{
substring_t args[MAX_OPT_ARGS];
@@ -194,6 +265,7 @@ static int tracefs_parse_options(char *d
if (!gid_valid(gid))
return -EINVAL;
opts->gid = gid;
+ set_gid(tracefs_mount->mnt_root, gid);
break;
case Opt_mode:
if (match_octal(&args[0], &option))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tracefs-set-all-files-to-the-same-group-ownership-as-the-mount-option.patch
queue-4.4/tracefs-have-new-files-inherit-the-ownership-of-their-parent.patch
