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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 1/4] security, lsm: Introduce security_create_user_ns()
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On 8/2/22 4:47 PM, KP Singh wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 8:02 PM Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com> wrote:
>>
>> Preventing user namespace (privileged or otherwise) creation comes in a
>> few of forms in order of granularity:
>>
>> 1. /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces sysctl
>> 2. OS specific patch(es)
>> 3. CONFIG_USER_NS
>>
>> To block a task based on its attributes, the LSM hook cred_prepare is a
>> good candidate for use because it provides more granular control, and
>> it is called before create_user_ns():
>>
>> cred = prepare_creds()
>> security_prepare_creds()
>> call_int_hook(cred_prepare, ...
>> if (cred)
>> create_user_ns(cred)
>>
>> Since security_prepare_creds() is meant for LSMs to copy and prepare
>> credentials, access control is an unintended use of the hook. Therefore
>> introduce a new function security_create_user_ns() with an accompanying
>> userns_create LSM hook.
>>
>> This hook takes the prepared creds for LSM authors to write policy
>> against. On success, the new namespace is applied to credentials,
>> otherwise an error is returned.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler <fred@cloudflare.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
>
> Reviewed-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
>
> This looks useful, and I would also like folks to consider the
> observability aspects of BPF LSM as
> brought up here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAEiveUdPhEPAk7Y0ZXjPsD=Vb5hn453CHzS9aG-tkyRa8bf_eg@mail.gmail.com/
>
> Frederick, what about adding the observability aspects to the commit
> description as well.

Agreed. I'll include that in v5.

>
> - KP
>
>>
>> ---
>> Changes since v3:
>> - No changes
>> Changes since v2:
>> - Rename create_user_ns hook to userns_create
>> Changes since v1:
>> - Changed commit wording
>> - Moved execution to be after id mapping check
>> - Changed signature to only accept a const struct cred *
>> ---
>> include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 1 +
>> include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 ++++
>> include/linux/security.h | 6 ++++++
>> kernel/user_namespace.c | 5 +++++
>> security/security.c | 5 +++++
>> 5 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
>> index eafa1d2489fd..7ff93cb8ca8d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
>> @@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ LSM_HOOK(int, -ENOSYS, task_prctl, int option, unsigned long arg2,
>> unsigned long arg3, unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
>> LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, task_to_inode, struct task_struct *p,
>> struct inode *inode)
>> +LSM_HOOK(int, 0, userns_create, const struct cred *cred)
>> LSM_HOOK(int, 0, ipc_permission, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, short flag)
>> LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, ipc_getsecid, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp,
>> u32 *secid)
>> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
>> index 91c8146649f5..54fe534d0e01 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
>> @@ -799,6 +799,10 @@
>> * security attributes, e.g. for /proc/pid inodes.
>> * @p contains the task_struct for the task.
>> * @inode contains the inode structure for the inode.
>> + * @userns_create:
>> + * Check permission prior to creating a new user namespace.
>> + * @cred points to prepared creds.
>> + * Return 0 if successful, otherwise < 0 error code.
>> *
>> * Security hooks for Netlink messaging.
>> *
>> diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
>> index 7fc4e9f49f54..a195bf33246a 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/security.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/security.h
>> @@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ int security_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct kernel_siginfo *info,
>> int security_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
>> unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5);
>> void security_task_to_inode(struct task_struct *p, struct inode *inode);
>> +int security_create_user_ns(const struct cred *cred);
>> int security_ipc_permission(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, short flag);
>> void security_ipc_getsecid(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, u32 *secid);
>> int security_msg_msg_alloc(struct msg_msg *msg);
>> @@ -1185,6 +1186,11 @@ static inline int security_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2,
>> static inline void security_task_to_inode(struct task_struct *p, struct inode *inode)
>> { }
>>
>> +static inline int security_create_user_ns(const struct cred *cred)
>> +{
>> + return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> static inline int security_ipc_permission(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp,
>> short flag)
>> {
>> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
>> index 5481ba44a8d6..3f464bbda0e9 100644
>> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
>> #include <linux/highuid.h>
>> #include <linux/cred.h>
>> #include <linux/securebits.h>
>> +#include <linux/security.h>
>> #include <linux/keyctl.h>
>> #include <linux/key-type.h>
>> #include <keys/user-type.h>
>> @@ -113,6 +114,10 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
>> !kgid_has_mapping(parent_ns, group))
>> goto fail_dec;
>>
>> + ret = security_create_user_ns(new);
>> + if (ret < 0)
>> + goto fail_dec;
>> +
>> ret = -ENOMEM;
>> ns = kmem_cache_zalloc(user_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
>> if (!ns)
>> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
>> index 188b8f782220..ec9b4696e86c 100644
>> --- a/security/security.c
>> +++ b/security/security.c
>> @@ -1903,6 +1903,11 @@ void security_task_to_inode(struct task_struct *p, struct inode *inode)
>> call_void_hook(task_to_inode, p, inode);
>> }
>>
>> +int security_create_user_ns(const struct cred *cred)
>> +{
>> + return call_int_hook(userns_create, 0, cred);
>> +}
>> +
>> int security_ipc_permission(struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp, short flag)
>> {
>> return call_int_hook(ipc_permission, 0, ipcp, flag);
>> --
>> 2.30.2
>>

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