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* [PATCH] ptrace: reintroduce usage of subjective credentials in ptrace_has_cap()
@ 2020-01-15 17:17 Christian Brauner
  2020-01-15 17:23 ` [PATCH v2] " Christian Brauner
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Christian Brauner @ 2020-01-15 17:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Christian Brauner, Serge Hallyn, Jann Horn, Oleg Nesterov,
	Eric Paris, stable

Commit 69f594a38967 ("ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat")
introduced the ability to opt out of audit messages for accesses to
various proc files since they are not violations of policy.
While doing so it somehow switched the check from ns_capable() to
has_ns_capability{_noaudit}(). That means it switched from checking the
subjective credentials of the task to using the objective credentials. I
couldn't find the original lkml thread and so I don't know why this switch
was done. But it seems wrong since ptrace_has_cap() is currently only used
in ptrace_may_access(). And it's used to check whether the calling task
(subject) has the CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability in the provided user namespace
to operate on the target task (object). According to the cred.h comments
this would mean the subjective credentials of the calling task need to be
used.
This switches it to use security_capable() because we only call
ptrace_has_cap() in ptrace_may_access() and in there we already have a
stable reference to the calling tasks creds under cred_guard_mutex so
there's no need to go through another series of dereferences and rcu
locking done in ns_capable{_noaudit}().

Cc: Serge Hallyn <shallyn@cisco.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 69f594a38967 ("ptrace: do not audit capability check when outputing /proc/pid/stat")
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
---
 kernel/ptrace.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index cb9ddcc08119..b2fe800cae9a 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -264,12 +264,14 @@ static int ptrace_check_attach(struct task_struct *child, bool ignore_state)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int ptrace_has_cap(struct user_namespace *ns, unsigned int mode)
+static int ptrace_has_cap(const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *ns,
+			  unsigned int mode)
 {
 	if (mode & PTRACE_MODE_NOAUDIT)
-		return has_ns_capability_noaudit(current, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
+		return security_capable(cred, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE, CAP_OPT_NONE);
 	else
-		return has_ns_capability(current, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE);
+		return security_capable(cred, ns, CAP_SYS_PTRACE,
+					CAP_OPT_NOAUDIT);
 }
 
 /* Returns 0 on success, -errno on denial. */
@@ -321,7 +323,7 @@ static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	    gid_eq(caller_gid, tcred->sgid) &&
 	    gid_eq(caller_gid, tcred->gid))
 		goto ok;
-	if (ptrace_has_cap(tcred->user_ns, mode))
+	if (ptrace_has_cap(cred, tcred->user_ns, mode))
 		goto ok;
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return -EPERM;
@@ -340,7 +342,7 @@ static int __ptrace_may_access(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int mode)
 	mm = task->mm;
 	if (mm &&
 	    ((get_dumpable(mm) != SUID_DUMP_USER) &&
-	     !ptrace_has_cap(mm->user_ns, mode)))
+	     !ptrace_has_cap(cred, mm->user_ns, mode)))
 	    return -EPERM;
 
 	return security_ptrace_access_check(task, mode);

base-commit: b3a987b0264d3ddbb24293ebff10eddfc472f653
-- 
2.25.0


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