linux-kernel - Re: user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v5)

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Date:	Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:37:52 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, richard@....at,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, eparis@...hat.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	dhowells@...hat.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: user namespace: make signal.c respect user namespaces (v5)

Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@...ssion.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:
> 
> > ipc/mqueue.c: for __SI_MESQ, convert the uid being sent to recipient's
> > user namespace. (new, thanks Oleg)
> >
> > __send_signal: convert current's uid to the recipient's user namespace
> > for any siginfo which is not SI_FROMKERNEL (patch from Oleg, thanks
> > again :)
> >
> > do_notify_parent and do_notify_parent_cldstop: map task's uid to parent's
> > user namespace
> >
> > ptrace_signal maps parent's uid into current's user namespace before
> > including in signal to current.  IIUC Oleg has argued that this shouldn't
> > matter as the debugger will play with it, but it seems like not converting
> > the value currently being set is misleading.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > Sep 20: Inspired by Oleg's suggestion, define map_cred_ns() helper to
> > 	simplify callers and help make clear what we are translating
> >         (which uid into which namespace).  Passing the target task would
> > 	make callers even easier to read, but we pass in user_ns because
> > 	current_user_ns() != task_cred_xxx(current, user_ns).
> > Sep 20: As recommended by Oleg, also put task_pid_vnr() under rcu_read_lock
> > 	in ptrace_signal().
> > Sep 23: In send_signal(), detect when (user) signal is coming from an
> > 	ancestor or unrelated user namespace.  Pass that on to __send_signal,
> > 	which sets si_uid to 0 or overflowuid if needed.
> > Oct 12: Base on Oleg's fixup_uid() patch.  On top of that, handle all
> > 	SI_FROMKERNEL cases at callers, because we can't assume sender is
> > 	current in those cases.
> > Nov 10: (mhelsley) rename fixup_uid to more meaningful usern_fixup_signal_uid
> > Nov 10: (akpm) make the !CONFIG_USER_NS case clearer
> >
> 
> > @@ -1088,6 +1117,9 @@ static int __send_signal(int sig, struct siginfo *info, struct task_struct *t,
> >  				q->info.si_pid = 0;
> >  			break;
> >  		}
> > +
> > +		userns_fixup_signal_uid(info, t);
> 
> There is a small bug here.  You want to fixup q->info, not info.
> Otherwise you might try dereferencing one of the special signals and get
> a NULL pointer dereference.

Thanks, Eric.  Oddly I've not seen this happen in quite a bit of
testing with the kernel, but you certainly must be right.  I sent
out a new patch to fix that.

thanks,
-serge
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