Thread (6 messages) flat view 6 messages, 3 authors, 2012-09-07

Re: [PATCH net-next] scm: Don't use struct ucred in NETLINK_CB and struct scm_cookie.

From: Eric Dumazet <hidden>
Date: 2012-09-07 15:07:32

On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 21:20 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Passing uids and gids on NETLINK_CB from a process in one user
namespace to a process in another user namespace can result in the
wrong uid or gid being presented to userspace.  Avoid that problem by
passing kuids and kgids instead.

- define struct scm_creds for use in scm_cookie and netlink_skb_parms
  that holds uid and gid information in kuid_t and kgid_t.

- Modify scm_set_cred to fill out scm_creds by heand instead of using
  cred_to_ucred to fill out struct ucred.  This conversion ensures
  userspace does not get incorrect uid or gid values to look at.

- Modify scm_recv to convert from struct scm_creds to struct ucred
  before copying credential values to userspace.

- Modify __scm_send to populate struct scm_creds on in the scm_cookie,
  instead of just copying struct ucred from userspace.

- Modify netlink_sendmsg to copy scm_creds instead of struct ucred
  into the NETLINK_CB.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index 7cb7867..6473267 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1398,7 +1398,7 @@ static int netlink_sendmsg(struct kiocb *kiocb, struct socket *sock,
 
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).pid	= nlk->pid;
 	NETLINK_CB(skb).dst_group = dst_group;
-	memcpy(NETLINK_CREDS(skb), &siocb->scm->creds, sizeof(struct ucred));
+	NETLINK_CB(skb).creds	= siocb->scm->creds;
 
 	err = -EFAULT;
 	if (memcpy_fromiovec(skb_put(skb, len), msg->msg_iov, len)) {
Seems fine to me, but I am not sure why you kept NETLINK_CREDS()
defined/used once.
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