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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>commoncap: move assignment of fs_ns to avoid null pointer dereference</title>
<updated>2017-10-19T02:09:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-04T17:50:05+00:00</published>
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The pointer fs_ns is assigned from inode-&gt;i_ib-&gt;s_user_ns before
a null pointer check on inode, hence if inode is actually null we
will get a null pointer dereference on this assignment. Fix this
by only dereferencing inode after the null pointer check on
inode.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1455328 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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The pointer fs_ns is assigned from inode-&gt;i_ib-&gt;s_user_ns before
a null pointer check on inode, hence if inode is actually null we
will get a null pointer dereference on this assignment. Fix this
by only dereferencing inode after the null pointer check on
inode.

Detected by CoverityScan CID#1455328 ("Dereference before null check")

Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2017-09-24T18:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-24T18:40:41+00:00</published>
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Pull misc security layer update from James Morris:
 "This is the remaining 'general' change in the security tree for v4.14,
  following the direct merging of SELinux (+ TOMOYO), AppArmor, and
  seccomp.

  That's everything now for the security tree except IMA, which will
  follow shortly (I've been traveling for the past week with patchy
  internet)"

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  security: fix description of values returned by cap_inode_need_killpriv
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Pull misc security layer update from James Morris:
 "This is the remaining 'general' change in the security tree for v4.14,
  following the direct merging of SELinux (+ TOMOYO), AppArmor, and
  seccomp.

  That's everything now for the security tree except IMA, which will
  follow shortly (I've been traveling for the past week with patchy
  internet)"

* 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  security: fix description of values returned by cap_inode_need_killpriv
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>security: fix description of values returned by cap_inode_need_killpriv</title>
<updated>2017-09-24T04:15:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Berger</name>
<email>stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-27T02:27:05+00:00</published>
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cap_inode_need_killpriv returns 1 if security.capability exists and
has a value and inode_killpriv() is required, 0 otherwise. Fix the
description of the return value to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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cap_inode_need_killpriv returns 1 if security.capability exists and
has a value and inode_killpriv() is required, 0 otherwise. Fix the
description of the return value to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-09-12T01:34:47+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Life has been busy and I have not gotten half as much done this round
  as I would have liked. I delayed it so that a minor conflict
  resolution with the mips tree could spend a little time in linux-next
  before I sent this pull request.

  This includes two long delayed user namespace changes from Kirill
  Tkhai. It also includes a very useful change from Serge Hallyn that
  allows the security capability attribute to be used inside of user
  namespaces. The practical effect of this is people can now untar
  tarballs and install rpms in user namespaces. It had been suggested to
  generalize this and encode some of the namespace information
  information in the xattr name. Upon close inspection that makes the
  things that should be hard easy and the things that should be easy
  more expensive.

  Then there is my bugfix/cleanup for signal injection that removes the
  magic encoding of the siginfo union member from the kernel internal
  si_code. The mips folks reported the case where I had used FPE_FIXME
  me is impossible so I have remove FPE_FIXME from mips, while at the
  same time including a return statement in that case to keep gcc from
  complaining about unitialized variables.

  I almost finished the work to get make copy_siginfo_to_user a trivial
  copy to user. The code is available at:

     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git neuter-copy_siginfo_to_user-v3

  But I did not have time/energy to get the code posted and reviewed
  before the merge window opened.

  I was able to see that the security excuse for just copying fields
  that we know are initialized doesn't work in practice there are buggy
  initializations that don't initialize the proper fields in siginfo. So
  we still sometimes copy unitialized data to userspace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities
  mips/signal: In force_fcr31_sig return in the impossible case
  signal: Remove kernel interal si_code magic
  fcntl: Don't use ambiguous SIG_POLL si_codes
  prctl: Allow local CAP_SYS_ADMIN changing exe_file
  security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()
  userns,pidns: Verify the userns for new pid namespaces
  signal/testing: Don't look for __SI_FAULT in userspace
  signal/mips: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/sparc: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/ia64: Document a conflict with SI_USER with SIGFPE
  signal/alpha: Document a conflict with SI_USER for SIGTRAP
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<entry>
<title>Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities</title>
<updated>2017-09-01T19:57:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serge@hallyn.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T18:11:56+00:00</published>
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Root in a non-initial user ns cannot be trusted to write a traditional
security.capability xattr.  If it were allowed to do so, then any
unprivileged user on the host could map his own uid to root in a private
namespace, write the xattr, and execute the file with privilege on the
host.

However supporting file capabilities in a user namespace is very
desirable.  Not doing so means that any programs designed to run with
limited privilege must continue to support other methods of gaining and
dropping privilege.  For instance a program installer must detect
whether file capabilities can be assigned, and assign them if so but set
setuid-root otherwise.  The program in turn must know how to drop
partial capabilities, and do so only if setuid-root.

This patch introduces v3 of the security.capability xattr.  It builds a
vfs_ns_cap_data struct by appending a uid_t rootid to struct
vfs_cap_data.  This is the absolute uid_t (that is, the uid_t in user
namespace which mounted the filesystem, usually init_user_ns) of the
root id in whose namespaces the file capabilities may take effect.

When a task asks to write a v2 security.capability xattr, if it is
privileged with respect to the userns which mounted the filesystem, then
nothing should change.  Otherwise, the kernel will transparently rewrite
the xattr as a v3 with the appropriate rootid.  This is done during the
execution of setxattr() to catch user-space-initiated capability writes.
Subsequently, any task executing the file which has the noted kuid as
its root uid, or which is in a descendent user_ns of such a user_ns,
will run the file with capabilities.

Similarly when asking to read file capabilities, a v3 capability will
be presented as v2 if it applies to the caller's namespace.

If a task writes a v3 security.capability, then it can provide a uid for
the xattr so long as the uid is valid in its own user namespace, and it
is privileged with CAP_SETFCAP over its namespace.  The kernel will
translate that rootid to an absolute uid, and write that to disk.  After
this, a task in the writer's namespace will not be able to use those
capabilities (unless rootid was 0), but a task in a namespace where the
given uid is root will.

Only a single security.capability xattr may exist at a time for a given
file.  A task may overwrite an existing xattr so long as it is
privileged over the inode.  Note this is a departure from previous
semantics, which required privilege to remove a security.capability
xattr.  This check can be re-added if deemed useful.

This allows a simple setxattr to work, allows tar/untar to work, and
allows us to tar in one namespace and untar in another while preserving
the capability, without risking leaking privilege into a parent
namespace.

Example using tar:

 $ cp /bin/sleep sleepx
 $ mkdir b1 b2
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100000:1 -m b:1:$(id -u):1 -- chown 0:0 b1
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1 -m b:1:$(id -u):1 -- chown 0:0 b2
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100000:1000 -- tar --xattrs-include=security.capability --xattrs -cf b1/sleepx.tar sleepx
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1000 -- tar --xattrs-include=security.capability --xattrs -C b2 -xf b1/sleepx.tar
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1000 -- getcap b2/sleepx
   b2/sleepx = cap_sys_admin+ep
 # /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/getv3xattr b2/sleepx
   v3 xattr, rootid is 100001

A patch to linux-test-project adding a new set of tests for this
functionality is in the nsfscaps branch at github.com/hallyn/ltp

Changelog:
   Nov 02 2016: fix invalid check at refuse_fcap_overwrite()
   Nov 07 2016: convert rootid from and to fs user_ns
   (From ebiederm: mar 28 2017)
     commoncap.c: fix typos - s/v4/v3
     get_vfs_caps_from_disk: clarify the fs_ns root access check
     nsfscaps: change the code split for cap_inode_setxattr()
   Apr 09 2017:
       don't return v3 cap for caps owned by current root.
      return a v2 cap for a true v2 cap in non-init ns
   Apr 18 2017:
      . Change the flow of fscap writing to support s_user_ns writing.
      . Remove refuse_fcap_overwrite().  The value of the previous
        xattr doesn't matter.
   Apr 24 2017:
      . incorporate Eric's incremental diff
      . move cap_convert_nscap to setxattr and simplify its usage
   May 8, 2017:
      . fix leaking dentry refcount in cap_inode_getsecurity

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Root in a non-initial user ns cannot be trusted to write a traditional
security.capability xattr.  If it were allowed to do so, then any
unprivileged user on the host could map his own uid to root in a private
namespace, write the xattr, and execute the file with privilege on the
host.

However supporting file capabilities in a user namespace is very
desirable.  Not doing so means that any programs designed to run with
limited privilege must continue to support other methods of gaining and
dropping privilege.  For instance a program installer must detect
whether file capabilities can be assigned, and assign them if so but set
setuid-root otherwise.  The program in turn must know how to drop
partial capabilities, and do so only if setuid-root.

This patch introduces v3 of the security.capability xattr.  It builds a
vfs_ns_cap_data struct by appending a uid_t rootid to struct
vfs_cap_data.  This is the absolute uid_t (that is, the uid_t in user
namespace which mounted the filesystem, usually init_user_ns) of the
root id in whose namespaces the file capabilities may take effect.

When a task asks to write a v2 security.capability xattr, if it is
privileged with respect to the userns which mounted the filesystem, then
nothing should change.  Otherwise, the kernel will transparently rewrite
the xattr as a v3 with the appropriate rootid.  This is done during the
execution of setxattr() to catch user-space-initiated capability writes.
Subsequently, any task executing the file which has the noted kuid as
its root uid, or which is in a descendent user_ns of such a user_ns,
will run the file with capabilities.

Similarly when asking to read file capabilities, a v3 capability will
be presented as v2 if it applies to the caller's namespace.

If a task writes a v3 security.capability, then it can provide a uid for
the xattr so long as the uid is valid in its own user namespace, and it
is privileged with CAP_SETFCAP over its namespace.  The kernel will
translate that rootid to an absolute uid, and write that to disk.  After
this, a task in the writer's namespace will not be able to use those
capabilities (unless rootid was 0), but a task in a namespace where the
given uid is root will.

Only a single security.capability xattr may exist at a time for a given
file.  A task may overwrite an existing xattr so long as it is
privileged over the inode.  Note this is a departure from previous
semantics, which required privilege to remove a security.capability
xattr.  This check can be re-added if deemed useful.

This allows a simple setxattr to work, allows tar/untar to work, and
allows us to tar in one namespace and untar in another while preserving
the capability, without risking leaking privilege into a parent
namespace.

Example using tar:

 $ cp /bin/sleep sleepx
 $ mkdir b1 b2
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100000:1 -m b:1:$(id -u):1 -- chown 0:0 b1
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1 -m b:1:$(id -u):1 -- chown 0:0 b2
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100000:1000 -- tar --xattrs-include=security.capability --xattrs -cf b1/sleepx.tar sleepx
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1000 -- tar --xattrs-include=security.capability --xattrs -C b2 -xf b1/sleepx.tar
 $ lxc-usernsexec -m b:0:100001:1000 -- getcap b2/sleepx
   b2/sleepx = cap_sys_admin+ep
 # /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/getv3xattr b2/sleepx
   v3 xattr, rootid is 100001

A patch to linux-test-project adding a new set of tests for this
functionality is in the nsfscaps branch at github.com/hallyn/ltp

Changelog:
   Nov 02 2016: fix invalid check at refuse_fcap_overwrite()
   Nov 07 2016: convert rootid from and to fs user_ns
   (From ebiederm: mar 28 2017)
     commoncap.c: fix typos - s/v4/v3
     get_vfs_caps_from_disk: clarify the fs_ns root access check
     nsfscaps: change the code split for cap_inode_setxattr()
   Apr 09 2017:
       don't return v3 cap for caps owned by current root.
      return a v2 cap for a true v2 cap in non-init ns
   Apr 18 2017:
      . Change the flow of fscap writing to support s_user_ns writing.
      . Remove refuse_fcap_overwrite().  The value of the previous
        xattr doesn't matter.
   Apr 24 2017:
      . incorporate Eric's incremental diff
      . move cap_convert_nscap to setxattr and simplify its usage
   May 8, 2017:
      . fix leaking dentry refcount in cap_inode_getsecurity

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commoncap: Move cap_elevated calculation into bprm_set_creds</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T19:03:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T22:25:28+00:00</published>
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Instead of a separate function, open-code the cap_elevated test, which
lets us entirely remove bprm-&gt;cap_effective (to use the local "effective"
variable instead), and more accurately examine euid/egid changes via the
existing local "is_setid".

The following LTP tests were run to validate the changes:

	# ./runltp -f syscalls -s cap
	# ./runltp -f securebits
	# ./runltp -f cap_bounds
	# ./runltp -f filecaps

All kernel selftests for capabilities and exec continue to pass as well.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
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Instead of a separate function, open-code the cap_elevated test, which
lets us entirely remove bprm-&gt;cap_effective (to use the local "effective"
variable instead), and more accurately examine euid/egid changes via the
existing local "is_setid".

The following LTP tests were run to validate the changes:

	# ./runltp -f syscalls -s cap
	# ./runltp -f securebits
	# ./runltp -f cap_bounds
	# ./runltp -f filecaps

All kernel selftests for capabilities and exec continue to pass as well.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>commoncap: Refactor to remove bprm_secureexec hook</title>
<updated>2017-08-01T19:03:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-07-18T22:25:27+00:00</published>
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The commoncap implementation of the bprm_secureexec hook is the only LSM
that depends on the final call to its bprm_set_creds hook (since it may
be called for multiple files, it ignores bprm-&gt;called_set_creds). As a
result, it cannot safely _clear_ bprm-&gt;secureexec since other LSMs may
have set it.  Instead, remove the bprm_secureexec hook by introducing a
new flag to bprm specific to commoncap: cap_elevated. This is similar to
cap_effective, but that is used for a specific subset of elevated
privileges, and exists solely to track state from bprm_set_creds to
bprm_secureexec. As such, it will be removed in the next patch.

Here, set the new bprm-&gt;cap_elevated flag when setuid/setgid has happened
from bprm_fill_uid() or fscapabilities have been prepared. This temporarily
moves the bprm_secureexec hook to a static inline. The helper will be
removed in the next patch; this makes the step easier to review and bisect,
since this does not introduce any changes to inputs nor outputs to the
"elevated privileges" calculation.

The new flag is merged with the bprm-&gt;secureexec flag in setup_new_exec()
since this marks the end of any further prepare_binprm() calls.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
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The commoncap implementation of the bprm_secureexec hook is the only LSM
that depends on the final call to its bprm_set_creds hook (since it may
be called for multiple files, it ignores bprm-&gt;called_set_creds). As a
result, it cannot safely _clear_ bprm-&gt;secureexec since other LSMs may
have set it.  Instead, remove the bprm_secureexec hook by introducing a
new flag to bprm specific to commoncap: cap_elevated. This is similar to
cap_effective, but that is used for a specific subset of elevated
privileges, and exists solely to track state from bprm_set_creds to
bprm_secureexec. As such, it will be removed in the next patch.

Here, set the new bprm-&gt;cap_elevated flag when setuid/setgid has happened
from bprm_fill_uid() or fscapabilities have been prepared. This temporarily
moves the bprm_secureexec hook to a static inline. The helper will be
removed in the next patch; this makes the step easier to review and bisect,
since this does not introduce any changes to inputs nor outputs to the
"elevated privileges" calculation.

The new flag is merged with the bprm-&gt;secureexec flag in setup_new_exec()
since this marks the end of any further prepare_binprm() calls.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
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<title>security: Use user_namespace::level to avoid redundant iterations in cap_capable()</title>
<updated>2017-07-20T12:46:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill Tkhai</name>
<email>ktkhai@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-02T17:11:52+00:00</published>
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When ns-&gt;level is not larger then cred-&gt;user_ns-&gt;level,
then ns can't be cred-&gt;user_ns's descendant, and
there is no a sense to search in parents.

So, break the cycle earlier and skip needless iterations.

v2: Change comment on suggested by Andy Lutomirski.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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When ns-&gt;level is not larger then cred-&gt;user_ns-&gt;level,
then ns can't be cred-&gt;user_ns's descendant, and
there is no a sense to search in parents.

So, break the cycle earlier and skip needless iterations.

v2: Change comment on suggested by Andy Lutomirski.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai &lt;ktkhai@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>security: mark LSM hooks as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2017-03-06T00:00:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-14T13:18:51+00:00</published>
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Mark all of the registration hooks as __ro_after_init (via the
__lsm_ro_after_init macro).

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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Mark all of the registration hooks as __ro_after_init (via the
__lsm_ro_after_init macro).

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2017-02-24T04:33:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-02-24T04:33:51+00:00</published>
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "There is a lot here. A lot of these changes result in subtle user
  visible differences in kernel behavior. I don't expect anything will
  care but I will revert/fix things immediately if any regressions show
  up.

  From Seth Forshee there is a continuation of the work to make the vfs
  ready for unpriviled mounts. We had thought the previous changes
  prevented the creation of files outside of s_user_ns of a filesystem,
  but it turns we missed the O_CREAT path. Ooops.

  Pavel Tikhomirov and Oleg Nesterov worked together to fix a long
  standing bug in the implemenation of PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER where only
  children that are forked after the prctl are considered and not
  children forked before the prctl. The only known user of this prctl
  systemd forks all children after the prctl. So no userspace
  regressions will occur. Holding earlier forked children to the same
  rules as later forked children creates a semantic that is sane enough
  to allow checkpoing of processes that use this feature.

  There is a long delayed change by Nikolay Borisov to limit inotify
  instances inside a user namespace.

  Michael Kerrisk extends the API for files used to maniuplate
  namespaces with two new trivial ioctls to allow discovery of the
  hierachy and properties of namespaces.

  Konstantin Khlebnikov with the help of Al Viro adds code that when a
  network namespace exits purges it's sysctl entries from the dcache. As
  in some circumstances this could use a lot of memory.

  Vivek Goyal fixed a bug with stacked filesystems where the permissions
  on the wrong inode were being checked.

  I continue previous work on ptracing across exec. Allowing a file to
  be setuid across exec while being ptraced if the tracer has enough
  credentials in the user namespace, and if the process has CAP_SETUID
  in it's own namespace. Proc files for setuid or otherwise undumpable
  executables are now owned by the root in the user namespace of their
  mm. Allowing debugging of setuid applications in containers to work
  better.

  A bug I introduced with permission checking and automount is now
  fixed. The big change is to mark the mounts that the kernel initiates
  as a result of an automount. This allows the permission checks in sget
  to be safely suppressed for this kind of mount. As the permission
  check happened when the original filesystem was mounted.

  Finally a special case in the mount namespace is removed preventing
  unbounded chains in the mount hash table, and making the semantics
  simpler which benefits CRIU.

  The vfs fix along with related work in ima and evm I believe makes us
  ready to finish developing and merge fully unprivileged mounts of the
  fuse filesystem. The cleanups of the mount namespace makes discussing
  how to fix the worst case complexity of umount. The stacked filesystem
  fixes pave the way for adding multiple mappings for the filesystem
  uids so that efficient and safer containers can be implemented"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.
  vfs: Use upper filesystem inode in bprm_fill_uid()
  proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
  mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts.
  prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant
  introduce the walk_process_tree() helper
  nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return owner UID of a userns
  fs: Better permission checking for submounts
  exit: fix the setns() &amp;&amp; PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER interaction
  vfs: open() with O_CREAT should not create inodes with unknown ids
  nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return the namespace type
  proc: Better ownership of files for non-dumpable tasks in user namespaces
  exec: Remove LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP
  exec: Test the ptracer's saved cred to see if the tracee can gain caps
  exec: Don't reset euid and egid when the tracee has CAP_SETUID
  inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits
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Pull namespace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "There is a lot here. A lot of these changes result in subtle user
  visible differences in kernel behavior. I don't expect anything will
  care but I will revert/fix things immediately if any regressions show
  up.

  From Seth Forshee there is a continuation of the work to make the vfs
  ready for unpriviled mounts. We had thought the previous changes
  prevented the creation of files outside of s_user_ns of a filesystem,
  but it turns we missed the O_CREAT path. Ooops.

  Pavel Tikhomirov and Oleg Nesterov worked together to fix a long
  standing bug in the implemenation of PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER where only
  children that are forked after the prctl are considered and not
  children forked before the prctl. The only known user of this prctl
  systemd forks all children after the prctl. So no userspace
  regressions will occur. Holding earlier forked children to the same
  rules as later forked children creates a semantic that is sane enough
  to allow checkpoing of processes that use this feature.

  There is a long delayed change by Nikolay Borisov to limit inotify
  instances inside a user namespace.

  Michael Kerrisk extends the API for files used to maniuplate
  namespaces with two new trivial ioctls to allow discovery of the
  hierachy and properties of namespaces.

  Konstantin Khlebnikov with the help of Al Viro adds code that when a
  network namespace exits purges it's sysctl entries from the dcache. As
  in some circumstances this could use a lot of memory.

  Vivek Goyal fixed a bug with stacked filesystems where the permissions
  on the wrong inode were being checked.

  I continue previous work on ptracing across exec. Allowing a file to
  be setuid across exec while being ptraced if the tracer has enough
  credentials in the user namespace, and if the process has CAP_SETUID
  in it's own namespace. Proc files for setuid or otherwise undumpable
  executables are now owned by the root in the user namespace of their
  mm. Allowing debugging of setuid applications in containers to work
  better.

  A bug I introduced with permission checking and automount is now
  fixed. The big change is to mark the mounts that the kernel initiates
  as a result of an automount. This allows the permission checks in sget
  to be safely suppressed for this kind of mount. As the permission
  check happened when the original filesystem was mounted.

  Finally a special case in the mount namespace is removed preventing
  unbounded chains in the mount hash table, and making the semantics
  simpler which benefits CRIU.

  The vfs fix along with related work in ima and evm I believe makes us
  ready to finish developing and merge fully unprivileged mounts of the
  fuse filesystem. The cleanups of the mount namespace makes discussing
  how to fix the worst case complexity of umount. The stacked filesystem
  fixes pave the way for adding multiple mappings for the filesystem
  uids so that efficient and safer containers can be implemented"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.
  vfs: Use upper filesystem inode in bprm_fill_uid()
  proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
  mnt: Tuck mounts under others instead of creating shadow/side mounts.
  prctl: propagate has_child_subreaper flag to every descendant
  introduce the walk_process_tree() helper
  nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return owner UID of a userns
  fs: Better permission checking for submounts
  exit: fix the setns() &amp;&amp; PR_SET_CHILD_SUBREAPER interaction
  vfs: open() with O_CREAT should not create inodes with unknown ids
  nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return the namespace type
  proc: Better ownership of files for non-dumpable tasks in user namespaces
  exec: Remove LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP
  exec: Test the ptracer's saved cred to see if the tracee can gain caps
  exec: Don't reset euid and egid when the tracee has CAP_SETUID
  inotify: Convert to using per-namespace limits
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