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Re: [CFT][PATCH 2/7] userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished

From: Richard Weinberger <hidden>
Date: 2014-12-08 22:17:42
Also in: linux-man, lkml, stable

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Am 08.12.2014 um 23:07 schrieb Eric W. Biederman:
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setgroups is unique in not needing a valid mapping before it can be called,
in the case of setgroups(0, NULL) which drops all supplemental groups.

The design of the user namespace assumes that CAP_SETGID can not actually
be used until a gid mapping is established.  Therefore add a helper function
to see if the user namespace gid mapping has been established and call
that function in the setgroups permission check.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989, being able to drop groups
without privilege using user namespaces.

Cc: stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
---
 include/linux/user_namespace.h | 9 +++++++++
 kernel/groups.c                | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index e95372654f09..41cc26e5a350 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ struct user_namespace {
 
 extern struct user_namespace init_user_ns;
 
+static inline bool userns_gid_mappings_established(const struct user_namespace *ns)
+{
+	bool established;
+	smp_mb__before_atomic();
+	established = ACCESS_ONCE(ns->gid_map.nr_extents) != 0;
+	smp_mb__after_atomic();
+	return established;
+}
+
Maybe this is a stupid question, but why do we need all this magic
around established =  ... ?
The purpose of this code is to check whether ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0
in a lock-free manner?

Thanks,
//richard
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