[PATCH net-next v6 0/3] Add SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD

* [PATCH net-next v6 0/3] Add SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD
@ 2023-05-22 13:24 Alexander Mikhalitsyn
  2023-05-22 13:24 ` [PATCH net-next v6 1/3] scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD Alexander Mikhalitsyn
                   ` (2 more replies)
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 15+ messages in thread
From: Alexander Mikhalitsyn @ 2023-05-22 13:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: davem
  Cc: linux-kernel, netdev, Alexander Mikhalitsyn, Eric Dumazet,
	Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Leon Romanovsky, David Ahern,
	Arnd Bergmann, Kees Cook, Christian Brauner, Kuniyuki Iwashima,
	Lennart Poettering, Luca Boccassi, Daniel Borkmann,
	Stanislav Fomichev

1. Implement SCM_PIDFD, a new type of CMSG type analogical to SCM_CREDENTIALS,
but it contains pidfd instead of plain pid, which allows programmers not
to care about PID reuse problem.

2. Add SO_PEERPIDFD which allows to get pidfd of peer socket holder pidfd.
This thing is direct analog of SO_PEERCRED which allows to get plain PID.

3. Add SCM_PIDFD / SO_PEERPIDFD kselftest

Idea comes from UAPI kernel group:
https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features/

Big thanks to Christian Brauner and Lennart Poettering for productive
discussions about this and Luca Boccassi for testing and reviewing this.

=== Motivation behind this patchset

Eric Dumazet raised a question:
> It seems that we already can use pidfd_open() (since linux-5.3), and
> pass the resulting fd in af_unix SCM_RIGHTS message ?

Yes, it's possible, but it means that from the receiver side we need
to trust the sent pidfd (in SCM_RIGHTS),
or always use combination of SCM_RIGHTS+SCM_CREDENTIALS, then we can
extract pidfd from SCM_RIGHTS,
then acquire plain pid from pidfd and after compare it with the pid
from SCM_CREDENTIALS.

A few comments from other folks regarding this.

Christian Brauner wrote:

>Let me try and provide some of the missing background.

>There are a range of use-cases where we would like to authenticate a
>client through sockets without being susceptible to PID recycling
>attacks. Currently, we can't do this as the race isn't fully fixable.
>We can only apply mitigations.

>What this patchset will allows us to do is to get a pidfd without the
>client having to send us an fd explicitly via SCM_RIGHTS. As that's
>already possibly as you correctly point out.

>But for protocols like polkit this is quite important. Every message is
>standalone and we would need to force a complete protocol change where
>we would need to require that every client allocate and send a pidfd via
>SCM_RIGHTS. That would also mean patching through all polkit users.

>For something like systemd-journald where we provide logging facilities
>and want to add metadata to the log we would also immensely benefit from
>being able to get a receiver-side controlled pidfd.

>With the message type we envisioned we don't need to change the sender
>at all and can be safe against pid recycling.

>Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/154
>Link: https://uapi-group.org/kernel-features

Lennart Poettering wrote:

>So yes, this is of course possible, but it would mean the pidfd would
>have to be transported as part of the user protocol, explicitly sent
>by the sender. (Moreover, the receiver after receiving the pidfd would
>then still have to somehow be able to prove that the pidfd it just
>received actually refers to the peer's process and not some random
>process. – this part is actually solvable in userspace, but ugly)

>The big thing is simply that we want that the pidfd is associated
>*implicity* with each AF_UNIX connection, not explicitly. A lot of
>userspace already relies on this, both in the authentication area
>(polkit) as well as in the logging area (systemd-journald). Right now
>using the PID field from SO_PEERCREDS/SCM_CREDENTIALS is racy though
>and very hard to get right. Making this available as pidfd too, would
>solve this raciness, without otherwise changing semantics of it all:
>receivers can still enable the creds stuff as they wish, and the data
>is then implicitly appended to the connections/datagrams the sender
>initiates.

>Or to turn this around: things like polkit are typically used to
>authenticate arbitrary dbus methods calls: some service implements a
>dbus method call, and when an unprivileged client then issues that
>call, it will take the client's info, go to polkit and ask it if this
>is ok. If we wanted to send the pidfd as part of the protocol we
>basically would have to extend every single method call to contain the
>client's pidfd along with it as an additional argument, which would be
>a massive undertaking: it would change the prototypes of basically
>*all* methods a service defines… And that's just ugly.

>Note that Alex' patch set doesn't expose anything that wasn't exposed
>before, or attach, propagate what wasn't before. All it does, is make
>the field already available anyway (the struct ucred .pid field)
>available also in a better way (as a pidfd), to solve a variety of
>races, with no effect on the protocol actually spoken within the
>AF_UNIX transport. It's a seamless improvement of the status quo.

===

Git tree:
https://github.com/mihalicyn/linux/tree/scm_pidfd

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>
Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>

Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>

Alexander Mikhalitsyn (3):
  scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD
  net: core: add getsockopt SO_PEERPIDFD
  selftests: net: add SCM_PIDFD / SO_PEERPIDFD test

 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/socket.h          |   3 +
 arch/mips/include/uapi/asm/socket.h           |   3 +
 arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h         |   3 +
 arch/sparc/include/uapi/asm/socket.h          |   3 +
 include/linux/net.h                           |   1 +
 include/linux/socket.h                        |   1 +
 include/net/scm.h                             |  43 +-
 include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h             |   3 +
 net/core/sock.c                               |  48 ++
 net/mptcp/sockopt.c                           |   3 +
 net/unix/af_unix.c                            |  34 +-
 tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/socket.h       |   3 +
 tools/testing/selftests/net/.gitignore        |   1 +
 tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/Makefile  |   3 +-
 .../testing/selftests/net/af_unix/scm_pidfd.c | 430 ++++++++++++++++++
 15 files changed, 574 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/net/af_unix/scm_pidfd.c

-- 
2.34.1

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 15+ messages in thread