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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2011-04-01 17:07:50 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-04-04 10:31:04 +1000
commit17f60a7da150fdd0cfb9756f86a262daa72c835f (patch)
tree1c5ece75d66bed0766de861cde6eb18ee7ea4cf2 /kernel/kmod.c
parentcfc64fd91fabed099a4c3df58559f4b7efe9bcce (diff)
downloadlinux-17f60a7da150fdd0cfb9756f86a262daa72c835f.tar.bz2
capabilites: allow the application of capability limits to usermode helpers
There is no way to limit the capabilities of usermodehelpers. This problem reared its head recently when someone complained that any user with cap_net_admin was able to load arbitrary kernel modules, even though the user didn't have cap_sys_module. The reason is because the actual load is done by a usermode helper and those always have the full cap set. This patch addes new sysctls which allow us to bound the permissions of usermode helpers. /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/bset /proc/sys/kernel/usermodehelper/inheritable You must have CAP_SYS_MODULE and CAP_SETPCAP to change these (changes are &= ONLY). When the kernel launches a usermodehelper it will do so with these as the bset and pI. -v2: make globals static create spinlock to protect globals -v3: require both CAP_SETPCAP and CAP_SYS_MODULE -v4: fix the typo s/CAP_SET_PCAP/CAP_SETPCAP/ because I didn't commit Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> No-objection-from: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kmod.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kmod.c100
1 files changed, 100 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 9cd0591c96a2..06fdea2819b6 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
#include <linux/kmod.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
+#include <linux/cred.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#include <linux/fdtable.h>
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
@@ -43,6 +44,13 @@ extern int max_threads;
static struct workqueue_struct *khelper_wq;
+#define CAP_BSET (void *)1
+#define CAP_PI (void *)2
+
+static kernel_cap_t usermodehelper_bset = CAP_FULL_SET;
+static kernel_cap_t usermodehelper_inheritable = CAP_FULL_SET;
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(umh_sysctl_lock);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
/*
@@ -132,6 +140,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__request_module);
static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
{
struct subprocess_info *sub_info = data;
+ struct cred *new;
int retval;
spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
@@ -153,6 +162,19 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
goto fail;
}
+ retval = -ENOMEM;
+ new = prepare_kernel_cred(current);
+ if (!new)
+ goto fail;
+
+ spin_lock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+ new->cap_bset = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_bset, new->cap_bset);
+ new->cap_inheritable = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_inheritable,
+ new->cap_inheritable);
+ spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+
+ commit_creds(new);
+
retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
(const char *const *)sub_info->argv,
(const char *const *)sub_info->envp);
@@ -418,6 +440,84 @@ unlock:
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_usermodehelper_exec);
+static int proc_cap_handler(struct ctl_table *table, int write,
+ void __user *buffer, size_t *lenp, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+ struct ctl_table t;
+ unsigned long cap_array[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S];
+ kernel_cap_t new_cap;
+ int err, i;
+
+ if (write && (!capable(CAP_SETPCAP) ||
+ !capable(CAP_SYS_MODULE)))
+ return -EPERM;
+
+ /*
+ * convert from the global kernel_cap_t to the ulong array to print to
+ * userspace if this is a read.
+ */
+ spin_lock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+ for (i = 0; i < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S; i++) {
+ if (table->data == CAP_BSET)
+ cap_array[i] = usermodehelper_bset.cap[i];
+ else if (table->data == CAP_PI)
+ cap_array[i] = usermodehelper_inheritable.cap[i];
+ else
+ BUG();
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+
+ t = *table;
+ t.data = &cap_array;
+
+ /*
+ * actually read or write and array of ulongs from userspace. Remember
+ * these are least significant 32 bits first
+ */
+ err = proc_doulongvec_minmax(&t, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
+ if (err < 0)
+ return err;
+
+ /*
+ * convert from the sysctl array of ulongs to the kernel_cap_t
+ * internal representation
+ */
+ for (i = 0; i < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S; i++)
+ new_cap.cap[i] = cap_array[i];
+
+ /*
+ * Drop everything not in the new_cap (but don't add things)
+ */
+ spin_lock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+ if (write) {
+ if (table->data == CAP_BSET)
+ usermodehelper_bset = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_bset, new_cap);
+ if (table->data == CAP_PI)
+ usermodehelper_inheritable = cap_intersect(usermodehelper_inheritable, new_cap);
+ }
+ spin_unlock(&umh_sysctl_lock);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+struct ctl_table usermodehelper_table[] = {
+ {
+ .procname = "bset",
+ .data = CAP_BSET,
+ .maxlen = _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S * sizeof(unsigned long),
+ .mode = 0600,
+ .proc_handler = proc_cap_handler,
+ },
+ {
+ .procname = "inheritable",
+ .data = CAP_PI,
+ .maxlen = _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S * sizeof(unsigned long),
+ .mode = 0600,
+ .proc_handler = proc_cap_handler,
+ },
+ { }
+};
+
void __init usermodehelper_init(void)
{
khelper_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("khelper");