Thread (2 messages) 2 messages, 2 authors, 2014-12-08

Re: [CFT][PATCH 7/7] userns: Allow setting gid_maps without privilege when setgroups is disabled

From: Andy Lutomirski <hidden>
Date: 2014-12-08 22:27:10
Also in: linux-man, lkml, stable

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Eric W. Biederman [off-list ref] wrote:
Now that setgroups can be disabled and not reenabled, setting gid_map
without privielge can now be enabled when setgroups is disabled.

This restores most of the functionality that was lost when unprivilege
unprivileged.
setting of gid_map was removed.  Applications that use this
functionality will need to check to see if they use setgroups or
init_groups, and if they don't they can be fixed by simply
disabling of setgroups before they run.
"disabling setgroups before writing to gid_map"?

The code is:

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Cc: stable-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
---
 kernel/user_namespace.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 3d128f91ced3..459c7f647072 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -828,6 +828,11 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
                        kuid_t uid = make_kuid(ns->parent, id);
                        if (uid_eq(uid, cred->euid))
                                return true;
+               } else if (cap_setid == CAP_SETGID) {
+                       kgid_t gid = make_kgid(ns->parent, id);
+                       if (!userns_setgroups_allowed(ns) &&
+                           gid_eq(gid, cred->egid))
+                               return true;
                }
        }

--
1.9.1


-- 
Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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