On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 6:02 PM Mickaël Salaün [off-list ref] wrote:
One could argue that chroot(2) is useless without a properly populated
root hierarchy (i.e. without /dev and /proc). However, there are
multiple use cases that don't require the chrooting process to create
file hierarchies with special files nor mount points, e.g.:
* A process sandboxing itself, once all its libraries are loaded, may
not need files other than regular files, or even no file at all.
* Some pre-populated root hierarchies could be used to chroot into,
provided for instance by development environments or tailored
distributions.
* Processes executed in a chroot may not require access to these special
files (e.g. with minimal runtimes, or by emulating some special files
with a LD_PRELOADed library or seccomp).
Unprivileged chroot is especially interesting for userspace developers
wishing to harden their applications. For instance, chroot(2) and Yama
enable to build a capability-based security (i.e. remove filesystem
ambient accesses) by calling chroot/chdir with an empty directory and
accessing data through dedicated file descriptors obtained with
openat2(2) and RESOLVE_BENEATH/RESOLVE_IN_ROOT/RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS.
I don't entirely understand. Are you writing this with the assumption
that a future change will make it possible to set these RESOLVE flags
process-wide, or something like that?
As long as that doesn't exist, I think that to make this safe, you'd
have to do something like the following - let a child process set up a
new mount namespace for you, and then chroot() into that namespace's
root:
struct shared_data {
int root_fd;
};
int helper_fn(void *args) {
struct shared_data *shared = args;
mount("none", "/tmp", "tmpfs", MS_NOSUID|MS_NODEV, "");
mkdir("/tmp/old_root", 0700);
pivot_root("/tmp", "/tmp/old_root");
umount("/tmp/old_root", "");
shared->root_fd = open("/", O_PATH);
}
void setup_chroot() {
struct shared_data shared = {};
prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS, 1, 0, 0, 0);
clone(helper_fn, my_stack,
CLONE_VFORK|CLONE_VM|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_NEWUSER|CLONE_NEWNS|SIGCHLD,
NULL);
fchdir(shared.root_fd);
chroot(".");
}
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diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
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+static inline int current_chroot_allowed(void)
+{
+ /*
+ * Changing the root directory for the calling task (and its future
+ * children) requires that this task has CAP_SYS_CHROOT in its
+ * namespace, or be running with no_new_privs and not sharing its
+ * fs_struct and not escaping its current root (cf. create_user_ns()).
+ * As for seccomp, checking no_new_privs avoids scenarios where
+ * unprivileged tasks can affect the behavior of privileged children.
+ */
+ if (task_no_new_privs(current) && current->fs->users == 1 &&
this read of current->fs->users should be using READ_ONCE()
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+ !current_chrooted())
+ return 0;
+ if (ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SYS_CHROOT))
+ return 0;
+ return -EPERM;
+}
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Overall I think this change is a good idea.