linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate cred on failure

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Date:	Tue, 6 Aug 2013 11:14:24 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	security@...nel.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] userns: unshare_userns(&cred) should not populate
 cred on failure

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> unshare_userns(new_cred) does *new_cred = prepare_creds() before
> create_user_ns() which can fail. However, the caller expects that
> it doesn't need to take care of new_cred if unshare_userns() fails.
>
> We could change the single caller, sys_unshare(), but I think it
> would be more clean to avoid the side effects on failure, so with
> this patch unshare_userns() does put_cred() itself and initializes
> *new_cred only if create_user_ns() succeeeds.
>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/user_namespace.c |   13 +++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> index d8c30db..6e50a44 100644
> --- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
> +++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
> @@ -105,16 +105,21 @@ int create_user_ns(struct cred *new)
>  int unshare_userns(unsigned long unshare_flags, struct cred **new_cred)
>  {
>         struct cred *cred;
> +       int err = -ENOMEM;
>
>         if (!(unshare_flags & CLONE_NEWUSER))
>                 return 0;
>
>         cred = prepare_creds();
> -       if (!cred)
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> +       if (cred) {
> +               err = create_user_ns(cred);
> +               if (err)
> +                       put_cred(cred);
> +               else
> +                       *new_cred = cred;
> +       }
>
> -       *new_cred = cred;
> -       return create_user_ns(cred);
> +       return err;
>  }
>
>  void free_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
> --
> 1.5.5.1
>
>

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>


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Andy Lutomirski
AMA Capital Management, LLC
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