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…ing the id_map

When we require privilege for setting /proc/<pid>/uid_map or
/proc/<pid>/gid_map no longer allow an unprivileged user to
open the file and pass it to a privileged program to write
to the file.

Instead when privilege is required require both the opener and the
writer to have the necessary capabilities.

I have tested this code and verified that setting /proc/<pid>/uid_map
fails when an unprivileged user opens the file and a privielged user
attempts to set the mapping, that unprivileged users can still map
their own id, and that a privileged users can still setup an arbitrary
mapping.

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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ebiederm authored and amluto committed Apr 15, 2013
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12 changes: 8 additions & 4 deletions kernel/user_namespace.c
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static struct kmem_cache *user_ns_cachep __read_mostly;

static bool new_idmap_permitted(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap_setid,
static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
struct user_namespace *ns, int cap_setid,
struct uid_gid_map *map);

static void set_cred_user_ns(struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *user_ns)
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ret = -EPERM;
/* Validate the user is allowed to use user id's mapped to. */
if (!new_idmap_permitted(ns, cap_setid, &new_map))
if (!new_idmap_permitted(file, ns, cap_setid, &new_map))
goto out;

/* Map the lower ids from the parent user namespace to the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -787,7 +788,8 @@ ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, size_t
&ns->projid_map, &ns->parent->projid_map);
}

static bool new_idmap_permitted(struct user_namespace *ns, int cap_setid,
static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
struct user_namespace *ns, int cap_setid,
struct uid_gid_map *new_map)
{
/* Allow mapping to your own filesystem ids */
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/* Allow the specified ids if we have the appropriate capability
* (CAP_SETUID or CAP_SETGID) over the parent user namespace.
* And the opener of the id file also had the approprpiate capability.
*/
if (ns_capable(ns->parent, cap_setid))
if (ns_capable(ns->parent, cap_setid) &&
file_ns_capable(file, ns->parent, cap_setid))
return true;

return false;
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