From: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Gary Lin <GLin@suse.com>, Bruno Meneguele <bmeneg@redhat.com>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/16] exec: Remove do_execve_file
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 06:35:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708063525.GC4332@42.do-not-panic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200702164140.4468-10-ebiederm@xmission.com>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 11:41:34AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that the last callser has been removed remove this code from exec.
>
> For anyone thinking of resurrecing do_execve_file please note that
> the code was buggy in several fundamental ways.
>
> - It did not ensure the file it was passed was read-only and that
> deny_write_access had been called on it. Which subtlely breaks
> invaniants in exec.
>
> - The caller of do_execve_file was expected to hold and put a
> reference to the file, but an extra reference for use by exec was
> not taken so that when exec put it's reference to the file an
> underflow occured on the file reference count.
Maybe its my growing love with testing, but I'm going to have to partly
blame here that we added a new API without any respective testing.
Granted, I recall this this patch set could have used more wider review
and a bit more patience... but just mentioning this so we try to avoid
new api-without-testing with more reason in the future.
But more importantly, *how* could we have caught this? Or how can we
catch this sort of stuff better in the future?
> - The point of the interface was so that a pathname did not need to
> exist. Which breaks pathname based LSMs.
Perhaps so but this fails to do justice of the LSM consideration done
for the patch which added this during patch review [0], and I
particularly recall I called out LSM folks to bring their ray guns out at
this patch. It didn't get much attention.
Let me recap a few points I think your commit log should somehow
consider. You do as you please.
Users of shmem_kernel_file_setup() spawned out of the desire to
*avoid* LSMs since it didn't make sense in their case as their inodes
are never exposed to userspace. Such is the case for ipc/shm.c and
security/keys/big_key.c. Refer to commit c7277090927a5 ("security: shmem:
implement kernel private shmem inodes") and then commit e1832f2923ec9
("ipc: use private shmem or hugetlbfs inodes for shm segments").
And the umh module approach was doing:
a) mapping data already extracted by the kernel somehow from
a file somehow, presumably from /lib/modules/ path somewhere, but
again this is not visible to umc.c, as it just gets called with:
fork_usermode_blob(void *data, size_t len, struct umh_info *info)
b) Creating the respective tmpfs file with shmem_kernel_file_setup()
c) Populating the file created and stuffing it with our data passed
d) Calling do_execve_file() on it.
So, although I was hoping LSM folks would chime in for things I may have
missed during my patch review, my recollection from the patch thread was
that this becuase of a) it in theory could skip out on dealing with LSMs.
[0] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509022526.hertzfpvy7apz6ny@ast-mbp
Luis
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2020-06-06 19:20 ` [RFC][PATCH] net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmantained Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-06 20:19 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-06 22:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-07 1:49 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-07 2:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-07 16:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-08 16:20 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 16:40 ` Greg KH
2020-06-08 18:35 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 1:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 15:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 19:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 2:31 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-08 16:23 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 23:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-09 1:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 5:29 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-09 22:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-09 23:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 0:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 3:08 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 3:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 7:30 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-10 16:24 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-09 20:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-09 23:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-10 21:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-11 23:31 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-12 0:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-13 3:38 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-13 4:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-13 14:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-13 15:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-13 16:14 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-14 14:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-16 1:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-16 16:21 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-23 18:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-23 18:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-23 18:53 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-23 19:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 1:51 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 4:00 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 4:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 6:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 7:05 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-24 15:41 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-24 17:54 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 19:48 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-24 6:05 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 14:18 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 12:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-24 14:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-24 23:14 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 1:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-25 6:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 9:57 ` Greg KH
2020-06-25 11:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 12:07 ` Greg KH
2020-06-25 14:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 19:34 ` David Miller
2020-06-26 1:36 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-06-26 1:51 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 4:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 5:41 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 6:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 6:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 12:51 ` [PATCH 00/14] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:53 ` [PATCH 01/14] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:53 ` [PATCH 02/14] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:54 ` [PATCH 03/14] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:54 ` [PATCH 04/14] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:55 ` [PATCH 05/14] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 16:22 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 16:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 1:26 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-27 4:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 4:36 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-26 12:55 ` [PATCH 06/14] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 15:37 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-26 16:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 07/14] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:56 ` [PATCH 08/14] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:57 ` [PATCH 09/14] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:57 ` [PATCH 10/14] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:58 ` [PATCH 11/14] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:58 ` [PATCH 12/14] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:59 ` [PATCH 13/14] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 12:59 ` [PATCH 14/14] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 13:48 ` [PATCH 00/14] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:55 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:56 ` [PATCH v2 01/15] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 02/15] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:57 ` [PATCH v2 03/15] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 19:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/15] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:00 ` [PATCH v2 05/15] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-07-01 17:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-01 17:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 20:01 ` [PATCH v2 06/15] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:02 ` [PATCH v2 07/15] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 08/15] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:03 ` [PATCH v2 09/15] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/15] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-30 12:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-06-30 14:28 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 20:05 ` [PATCH v2 11/15] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 12/15] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:06 ` [PATCH v2 13/15] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of " Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:07 ` [PATCH v2 14/15] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 20:08 ` [PATCH v2 15/15] umd: Stop using split_argv Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-29 22:12 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 1:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 6:16 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 12:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 13:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 13:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 13:40 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-02 16:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-03 13:19 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-03 22:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 6:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-08 4:46 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:52 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-01 17:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:40 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] " Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 01/16] umh: Capture the pid in umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 02/16] umh: Move setting PF_UMH into umh_pipe_setup Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 03/16] umh: Rename the user mode driver helpers for clarity Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 04/16] umh: Remove call_usermodehelper_setup_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 05/16] umh: Separate the user mode driver and the user mode helper support Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 06/16] umd: For clarity rename umh_info umd_info Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 07/16] umd: Rename umd_info.cmdline umd_info.driver_name Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 08/16] umd: Transform fork_usermode_blob into fork_usermode_driver Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 09/16] umh: Stop calling do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 10/16] exec: Remove do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 6:35 ` Luis Chamberlain [this message]
2020-07-08 12:41 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-08 13:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 13:32 ` Luis Chamberlain
2020-07-12 21:02 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 11/16] bpfilter: Move bpfilter_umh back into init data Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 12/16] umd: Track user space drivers with struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 13/16] exit: Factor thread_group_exited out of pidfd_poll Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-03 20:30 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-03 21:37 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 0:03 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-04 15:50 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-07 17:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-08 0:05 ` Daniel Borkmann
2020-07-08 3:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-04 16:00 ` Christian Brauner
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 14/16] bpfilter: Take advantage of the facilities of struct pid Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 15/16] umd: Remove exit_umh Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 16:41 ` [PATCH v3 16/16] umd: Stop using split_argv Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-02 23:51 ` [PATCH v3 00/16] Make the user mode driver code a better citizen Tetsuo Handa
2020-07-09 22:05 ` [merged][PATCH " Eric W. Biederman
2020-07-14 19:42 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-07-08 5:20 ` [PATCH v2 00/15] " Luis Chamberlain
2020-06-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 00/14] " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-26 16:40 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-26 17:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-26 18:22 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-27 11:38 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-27 12:59 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-27 13:57 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-28 19:44 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-29 2:20 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-29 20:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 6:28 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 12:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-30 16:48 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 21:54 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-30 21:57 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-30 22:58 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 12:56 ` [RFC][PATCH] net/bpfilter: Remove this broken and apparently unmantained Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 13:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-06-25 14:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 14:36 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 15:21 ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-06-25 16:03 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-06-25 16:06 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-06-26 11:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 5:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 11:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-08 16:35 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-08 16:33 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2020-06-06 20:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-07 15:51 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-06-07 1:13 ` Tetsuo Handa
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