Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH net-next v6 07/11] landlock: Add ptrace restrictions

From
Djalal Harouni <hidden>
Date
2017-04-10 06:48:41
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Reply to
Mickaël Salaün, 2017-03-28
On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Mickaël Salaün [off-list ref] wrote:
A landlocked process has less privileges than a non-landlocked process
and must then be subject to additional restrictions when manipulating
processes. To be allowed to use ptrace(2) and related syscalls on a
target process, a landlocked process must have a subset of the target
process' rules.

New in v6

Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <redacted>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <redacted>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <redacted>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <redacted>
Cc: David S. Miller <redacted>
Cc: James Morris <redacted>
Cc: Kees Cook <redacted>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <redacted>
---
 security/landlock/Makefile       |   2 +-
 security/landlock/hooks_ptrace.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/landlock/hooks_ptrace.h |  11 ++++
 security/landlock/init.c         |   2 +
 4 files changed, 140 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 security/landlock/hooks_ptrace.c
 create mode 100644 security/landlock/hooks_ptrace.h
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+/**
+ * landlock_ptrace_access_check - determine whether the current process may
+ *                               access another
+ *
+ * @child: the process to be accessed
+ * @mode: the mode of attachment
+ *
+ * If the current task has Landlock rules, then the child must have at least
+ * the same rules.  Else denied.
+ *
+ * Determine whether a process may access another, returning 0 if permission
+ * granted, -errno if denied.
+ */
+static int landlock_ptrace_access_check(struct task_struct *child,
+               unsigned int mode)
+{
+       if (!landlocked(current))
+               return 0;
+
+       if (!landlocked(child))
+               return -EPERM;
+
+       if (landlock_task_has_subset_events(current, child))
+               return 0;
+
+       return -EPERM;
+}
+
Maybe you want to check the mode argument here if it is a
PTRACE_ATTACH which may translate to read/writes ? PTRACE_READ are
normally for reads only. Or also which creds were used if this was a
direct syscall or a filesystem call through procfs.

I'm bringing this, since you may want to make some room for landlock
ptrace events and what others may want to do with it. Also I'm
planning to send another v2 RFC for procfs separate instances [1], the
aim is to give LSMs a security_ptrace_access_check hook path when
dealing with /proc/<pids>/ [2]  . Right now LSMs don't really have a
security path there, and the implementation does not guarantee that.
With this Yama ptrace scope or other LSMs may take advantage of it and
check the 'PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCRED' mode for filesystem accesses.
That's why I think it would be better if the default landlock ptrace
semantics are not that wide.

Thanks!

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/30/670
[2] http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/proc/base.c#L719
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