Re: [PATCH 2/2] security.capability: fix conversions on getxattr

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:34:49PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Miklos Szeredi [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

If a capability is stored on disk in v2 format cap_inode_getsecurity() will
currently return in v2 format unconditionally.

This is wrong: v2 cap should be equivalent to a v3 cap with zero rootid,
and so the same conversions performed on it.

If the rootid cannot be mapped v3 is returned unconverted.  Fix this so
that both v2 and v3 return -EOVERFLOW if the rootid (or the owner of the fs
user namespace in case of v2) cannot be mapped in the current user
namespace.

This looks like a good cleanup.

Sorry, I'm not following.  Why is this a good cleanup?  Why should
the xattr be shown as faked v3 in this case?

A separate question below.

I do wonder how well this works with stacking.  In particular
ovl_xattr_set appears to call vfs_getxattr without overriding the creds.
What the purpose of that is I haven't quite figured out.  It looks like
it is just a probe to see if an xattr is present so maybe it is ok.

Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

quoted

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <redacted>
---
 security/commoncap.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index bacc1111d871..c9d99f8f4c82 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c

@@ -371,10 +371,11 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
 {
 	int size, ret;
 	kuid_t kroot;
+	__le32 nsmagic, magic;
 	uid_t root, mappedroot;
 	char *tmpbuf = NULL;
 	struct vfs_cap_data *cap;
-	struct vfs_ns_cap_data *nscap;
+	struct vfs_ns_cap_data *nscap = NULL;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	struct user_namespace *fs_ns;
 

@@ -396,46 +397,61 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
 	fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
 	cap = (struct vfs_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
 	if (is_v2header((size_t) ret, cap)) {
-		/* If this is sizeof(vfs_cap_data) then we're ok with the
-		 * on-disk value, so return that.  */
-		if (alloc)
-			*buffer = tmpbuf;
-		else
-			kfree(tmpbuf);
-		return ret;
-	} else if (!is_v3header((size_t) ret, cap)) {
-		kfree(tmpbuf);
-		return -EINVAL;
+		root = 0;
+	} else if (is_v3header((size_t) ret, cap)) {
+		nscap = (struct vfs_ns_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
+		root = le32_to_cpu(nscap->rootid);
+	} else {
+		size = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_free;
 	}
 
-	nscap = (struct vfs_ns_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
-	root = le32_to_cpu(nscap->rootid);
 	kroot = make_kuid(fs_ns, root);
 
 	/* If the root kuid maps to a valid uid in current ns, then return
 	 * this as a nscap. */
 	mappedroot = from_kuid(current_user_ns(), kroot);
 	if (mappedroot != (uid_t)-1 && mappedroot != (uid_t)0) {
+		size = sizeof(struct vfs_ns_cap_data);
 		if (alloc) {
-			*buffer = tmpbuf;
+			if (!nscap) {
+				/* v2 -> v3 conversion */
+				nscap = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+				if (!nscap) {
+					size = -ENOMEM;
+					goto out_free;
+				}
+				nsmagic = VFS_CAP_REVISION_3;
+				magic = le32_to_cpu(cap->magic_etc);
+				if (magic & VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE)
+					nsmagic |= VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE;
+				memcpy(&nscap->data, &cap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32);
+				nscap->magic_etc = cpu_to_le32(nsmagic);
+			} else {
+				/* use allocated v3 buffer */
+				tmpbuf = NULL;
+			}
 			nscap->rootid = cpu_to_le32(mappedroot);
-		} else
-			kfree(tmpbuf);
-		return size;
+			*buffer = nscap;
+		}
+		goto out_free;
 	}
 
 	if (!rootid_owns_currentns(kroot)) {
-		kfree(tmpbuf);
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		size = -EOVERFLOW;

Why this change?  Christian (cc:d) noticed that this is a user visible change.
Without this change, if you are in a userns which has different rootid, the
EOVERFLOW tells vfs_getxattr to vall back to __vfs_getxattr() and so you can
see the v3 capability with its rootid.

With this change, you instead just get EOVERFLOW.

quoted

+		goto out_free;
 	}
 
 	/* This comes from a parent namespace.  Return as a v2 capability */
 	size = sizeof(struct vfs_cap_data);
 	if (alloc) {
-		*buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
-		if (*buffer) {
-			struct vfs_cap_data *cap = *buffer;
-			__le32 nsmagic, magic;
+		if (nscap) {
+			/* v3 -> v2 conversion */
+			cap = kzalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+			if (!cap) {
+				size = -ENOMEM;
+				goto out_free;
+			}
 			magic = VFS_CAP_REVISION_2;
 			nsmagic = le32_to_cpu(nscap->magic_etc);
 			if (nsmagic & VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE)

@@ -443,9 +459,12 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
 			memcpy(&cap->data, &nscap->data, sizeof(__le32) * 2 * VFS_CAP_U32);
 			cap->magic_etc = cpu_to_le32(magic);
 		} else {
-			size = -ENOMEM;
+			/* use unconverted v2 */
+			tmpbuf = NULL;
 		}
+		*buffer = cap;
 	}
+out_free:
 	kfree(tmpbuf);
 	return size;
 }