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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.20 282/352] fs/proc/base.c: use ns_capable instead of capable for timerslack_ns
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> 4.20-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> know.

No objection. But I think of this as a feature addition rather than a
fix for something. As a feature that we now allow something we
previously did not does this qualify for a backport to stable?

It is probably no more harmful in this instance than adding PCI IDs to a
driver. So I am not worried. I am curious the current guidelines
are.

In most cases a small relaxation of permissions like this requires a lot
of bug fixing as typically code protected by capable(CAP_XXX) has been
written and tested assuming a trusted root user. Those bug fixes are
many times too large for a stable backport.

Eric


> ------------------
>
> [ Upstream commit 8da0b4f692c6d90b09c91f271517db746a22ff67 ]
>
> Access to timerslack_ns is controlled by a process having CAP_SYS_NICE
> in its effective capability set, but the current check looks in the root
> namespace instead of the process' user namespace. Since a process is
> allowed to do other activities controlled by CAP_SYS_NICE inside a
> namespace, it should also be able to adjust timerslack_ns.
>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181030180012.232896-1-bmgordon@google.com
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gordon <bmgordon@google.com>
> Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Oren Laadan <orenl@cellrox.com>
> Cc: Ruchi Kandoi <kandoiruchi@google.com>
> Cc: Rom Lemarchand <romlem@android.com>
> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
> Cc: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@google.com>
> Cc: Elliott Hughes <enh@google.com>
> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
> fs/proc/base.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index ce3465479447..98525af0953e 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -2356,10 +2356,13 @@ static ssize_t timerslack_ns_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> return -ESRCH;
>
> if (p != current) {
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + if (!ns_capable(__task_cred(p)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> count = -EPERM;
> goto out;
> }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
>
> err = security_task_setscheduler(p);
> if (err) {
> @@ -2392,11 +2395,14 @@ static int timerslack_ns_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> return -ESRCH;
>
> if (p != current) {
> -
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
> + rcu_read_lock();
> + if (!ns_capable(__task_cred(p)->user_ns, CAP_SYS_NICE)) {
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> err = -EPERM;
> goto out;
> }
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +
> err = security_task_getscheduler(p);
> if (err)
> goto out;

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