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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
> > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> writes:
> >
> >> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> >>>
> >>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> writes:
> >>>
> >>> > diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
> >>> > index 7e3317c..75cc65a 100644
> >>> > --- a/fs/xattr.c
> >>> > +++ b/fs/xattr.c
> >>> > @@ -170,12 +170,29 @@ int __vfs_setxattr_noperm(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
> >>> > const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
> >>> > {
> >>> > struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
> >>> > - int error = -EAGAIN;
> >>> > + int error;
> >>> > + void *wvalue = NULL;
> >>> > + size_t wsize = 0;
> >>> > int issec = !strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX,
> >>> > XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN);
> >>> >
> >>> > - if (issec)
> >>> > + if (issec) {
> >>> > inode->i_flags &= ~S_NOSEC;
> >>> > +
> >>> > + if (!strcmp(name, "security.capability")) {
> >>> > + error = cap_setxattr_convert_nscap(dentry, value, size,
> >>> > + &wvalue, &wsize);
> >>> > + if (error < 0)
> >>> > + return error;
> >>> > + if (wvalue) {
> >>> > + value = wvalue;
> >>> > + size = wsize;
> >>> > + }
> >>> > + }
> >>> > + }
> >>> > +
> >>> > + error = -EAGAIN;
> >>> > +
> >>>
> >>> Why is the conversion in __vfs_setxattr_noperm and not in setattr as
> >>> was done for posix_acl_fix_xattr_from_user?
> >>
> >> I think I was thinking I wanted to catch all the vfs_setxattr operations,
> >> but I don't think that's right. Moving to setxattr seems right. I'll
> >> look around a bit more.
> >
> > Thanks. This is one of these little details that we want a good answer
> > to why there. If you can document that in your patch description when
> > you resend I would appreciate it.
>
> Ok. Grrr.
>
> Looking at this a little more getting it correct where we call the
> conversion operation is critical.
>
> I believe the current placement of cap_setxattr_convert_nscap is
> actively wrong. In particular unless I am misleading something this
> will trigger multiple conversions when setting one of these attributes
> on overlayfs.
>
> The stragey I adopted for for posix acls is:
>
> On a write from userspace convert from current_user_ns() to &init_user_ns.
> On a write to the filesystem convert from &init_user_ns to fs_user_ns.
>
> On a read from the filesystem convert from fs_user_ns to &init_user_ns
> On a read from the kernel to userspace convert from &init_user_ns
> to current_user_ns().
>
> Overall a good strategy but no one we can trivially adopt for the
> capability xattr as the second write to filesystem method does not
> appear to actually exist for anything except for posix acls.
>
> I need to think a little more about how we want to accomplish this for
> the capability xattr. My apoligies for leading you down a path that has
> all of these bumps and then being sufficiently distracted not to help
> you through this maze.
>
> The only easy solution I can see is to just always keep things in
> &init_user_ns inside the kernel. That works until we bring fuse or
> other unprivileged mounts onboard that have storage outside of the
> kernel.
>
> Seth and I will have to rework that for fuse support but that sounds
> better than not letting such an issue prevent us from merging the code.

Ok, in the meantime I've made a few updates in my tree which I think
make the code a lot nicer (and do move the conversion to setxattr()),
but there's a bug in that which I'm still trying to nail down. I'll
send a new version when I get that figured, and we can see how close
to ok that is.

Note that upstream cap_inode_removexattr and cap_inode_setxattr()
upstream still don't respect the fs_user_ns properly either (the
proper code is in the Ubuntu kernel, maybe it's in your -next
tree, I don't know how you and Seth are coordinating that)

-serge

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