linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] Security: Implement disablenetwork semantics. (v4)

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Message-ID: <20100114164702.GA13439@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:47:02 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>
To:	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...ott.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Bernie Innocenti <bernie@...ewiz.org>,
	Mark Seaborn <mrs@...hic-beasts.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Samir Bellabes <sam@...ack.fr>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Kyle Moffett <kyle@...fetthome.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Security: Implement disablenetwork semantics. (v4)

Quoting Michael Stone (michael@...top.org):
> >Quoting Pavel Machek (pavel@....cz):
> >> > Quoting Michael Stone (michael@...top.org):
> >> > > Serge Hallyn wrote:
> >> > > >Michael, I'm sorry, I should go back and search the thread for the
> >> > > >answer, but don't have time right now - do you really need
> >> > > >disablenetwork to be available to unprivileged users?
> >> > > > > > Rainbow can only drop the networking privileges when
> >we know at app launch time
> >> > > (e.g. based on a manifest or from the human operator) that privileges can be
> >> > > dropped. Unfortunately, most of the really interesting uses of disablenetwork
> >> > > happen *after* rainbow has dropped privilege and handed control the app.
> >> > > Therefore, having an API which can be used by at least some low-privilege
> >> > > processes is important to me.
> >> > > > > > >is it ok to require CAP_SETPCAP (same thing required
> >for dropping privs from
> >> > > >bounding set)?
> >> > > > > > Let me try to restate your idea:
> >> > > > > >   We can make disablenetwork safer by permitting its
> >use only where explicitly
> >> > >   permitted by some previously privileged ancestor. The securebits facility
> >> > >   described in
> >> > > > > >     http://lwn.net/Articles/280279/
> >> > > > > >   may be a good framework in which to implement this
> >control.
> >> > > > > > Did I understand correctly? If so, then yes, this
> >approach seems like it would
> >> > > work for me.
> >> > > > That is a little more than I was saying this time though I
> >think I
> >> > suggested it earlier.
> >> > > > But really I don't think anyone would care to separate a
> >system into
> >> > some processes allowed to do unprivileged disablenetwork and other
> >> > processes not allowed to, so a (root-owned mode 644) sysctl seems just
> >> > as useful.
> >> > Global solution like that is always wrong. (And we have better
> >> solution available.)
> >
> >All right, so Michael suggested securebits, I personally feel prctl would
> >be more appropriate.
> 
> I'm happy with either approach so I'll prepare patches based on Serge's
> suggestion first.

Ah - but I worry that if you do that Alan or others will object.  Where do
you plan to store the disablenet_allowed bit?  You can use security_prctl()
to keep the code out of sys_prctl(), but you still have the question of
whether you add a bit to the task struct, use task->security and not stack
with selinux, use a thread flag, or try to enable stacking of task->security.

To me securebits are all about capability hacks, but their name is more
generic than that :), so maybe they are appropriate after all.  Andrew Morgan,
would you object to using securebits to store the fact that a privileged
process has said "from now on an unprivileged process may call disablenetwork"?

-serge
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