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SubjectRe: [PATCH] User namespace: don't allow sysctl in non-init user ns
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On Thu, 2011-09-15 at 14:48 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> sysctl.c has its own custom uid check, which is not user namespace
> aware. As discovered by Richard, that allows root in a container
> privileged access to set all sysctls.
>
> To fix that, just refuse access if current is not in init_user_ns. We
> may at some point want to relax that check so that some sysctls are
> allowed - for instance dmesg_restrict when syslog is containerized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
> Cc: richard@nod.at
> ---
> kernel/sysctl.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> index 11d65b5..f2b42e2 100644
> --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> @@ -1697,6 +1697,8 @@ void register_sysctl_root(struct ctl_table_root *root)
>
> static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
> {
> + if (current_user_ns() != &init_user_ns)
> + return -EACCES;
> if (!current_euid())
> mode >>= 6;
> else if (in_egroup_p(0))

I haven't tested it, but it looks like this denies access to /proc/sys
completely, right ? Wouldn't it be better to make access read-only ?
For example glibc reads from several /proc/sys/... files for sysconf()
and pathconf(). That would fail with this patch I think ?

Something like

--- a/kernel/sysctl.c.orig 2011-06-24 00:24:26.000000000 +0200
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c 2011-09-21 11:40:42.961291629 +0200
@@ -1892,10 +1892,15 @@

static int test_perm(int mode, int op)
{
- if (!current_euid())
- mode >>= 6;
- else if (in_egroup_p(0))
- mode >>= 3;
+ if (current_user_ns() != &init_user_ns) {
+ if (op & MAY_WRITE)
+ return -EACCES;
+ } else {
+ if (!current_euid())
+ mode >>= 6;
+ else if (in_egroup_p(0))
+ mode >>= 3;
+ }
if ((op & ~mode & (MAY_READ|MAY_WRITE|MAY_EXEC)) == 0)
return 0;
return -EACCES;
Mike.




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