Thread (49 messages) 49 messages, 10 authors, 2014-08-16

Re: [PATCH 4/5] man-pages: cap_rights_limit.2: limit FD rights for Capsicum

From: Andy Lutomirski <hidden>
Date: 2014-06-30 14:54:21
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Drysdale [off-list ref] wrote:
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Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <redacted>
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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 2008-2010 Robert N. M. Watson
+.\" Copyright (c) 2012-2013 The FreeBSD Foundation
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+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
+.\"
+.TH CAP_RIGHTS_LIMIT 2 2014-05-07 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+cap_rights_limit \- limit Capsicum capability rights
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.B #include <sys/capsicum.h>
+.sp
+.BI "int cap_rights_limit(int " fd ", const struct cap_rights *" rights ,
+.BI "                     unsigned int " fcntls ,
+.BI "                     int " nioctls ", unsigned int *" ioctls );
Am I missing the docs for struct cap_rights somewhere?
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+When a file descriptor is created by a function such as
+.BR accept (2),
+.BR accept4 (2),
+.BR creat (2),
+.BR epoll_create (2),
+.BR eventfd (2),
+.BR mq_open (2),
+.BR open (2),
+.BR openat (2),
+.BR pdfork (2),
+.BR pipe (2),
+.BR pipe2 (2),
+.BR signalfd (2),
+.BR socket (2),
+.BR socketpair (2)
+or
+.BR timerfd_create (2),
+it implicitly has all Capsicum capability rights.
+Those rights can be reduced (but never expanded) by using the
+.BR cap_rights_limit ()
+system call.
+Once Capsicum capability rights are reduced, operations on the file descriptor
+.I fd
+will be limited to those permitted by the remainder of the arguments.
+.PP
+The
+.I rights
+argument describes the primary rights for the file descriptor, and
+should be prepared using
+.BR cap_rights_init (3)
+family of functions.  The complete list of primary rights can be found in the
+.BR rights (7)
+manual page.
+.PP
+If a file descriptor is granted the
+.B CAP_FCNTL
+primary capability right, the list of allowed
+.BR fcntl (2)
+commands can be selectively reduced (but never expanded) with the
+.I fcntls
+argument.  The following flags may be specified in the
+.I fcntls
+argument:
+.TP
+.B CAP_FCNTL_GETFL
+Permit
+.B F_GETFL
+command.
+.TP
+.B CAP_FCNTL_SETFL
+Permit
+.B F_SETFL
+command.
+.TP
+.B CAP_FCNTL_GETOWN
+Permit
+.B F_GETOWN
+command.
+.TP
+.B CAP_FCNTL_SETOWN
+Permit
+.B F_SETOWN
+command.
+.PP
+A value of
+.B CAP_FCNTL_ALL
+for the
+.I fcntls
+argument leaves the set of allowed
+.BR fcntl (2)
+commands unchanged.
What about the locking fcntl operations?  (Arguably the old crappy
POSIX lock operations should be flat-out disallowed on capability fds,
but I see nothing wrong with selectively allowing the new open file
description locks.)

--Andy
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