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Message-ID: <CALCETrUSjKVWoMM8aVeevAZRHqtiE7zOSUvjdW_yCBTnR07Ahg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:27:36 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Will Drewry <wad@...omium.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] seccomp: add ptrace options for suspend/resume

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>>> On 06/09, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:49 PM, Tycho Andersen
>>>> >
>>>> > @@ -556,6 +556,15 @@ static int ptrace_setoptions(struct task_struct *child, unsigned long data)
>>>> >         if (data & ~(unsigned long)PTRACE_O_MASK)
>>>> >                 return -EINVAL;
>>>> >
>>>> > +       if (unlikely(data & PTRACE_O_SUSPEND_SECCOMP)) {
>>>
>>> Well, we should do this if
>>>
>>>                         (data & O_SUSPEND) && !(flags & O_SUSPEND)
>>>
>>> or at least if
>>>
>>>                         (data ^ flags) & O_SUSPEND
>>>
>>>
>>>> > +               if (!config_enabled(CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) ||
>>>> > +                   !config_enabled(CONFIG_SECCOMP))
>>>> > +                       return -EINVAL;
>>>> > +
>>>> > +               if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>>>> > +                       return -EPERM;
>>>>
>>>> I tend to think that we should also require that current not be using
>>>> seccomp.  Otherwise, in principle, there's a seccomp bypass for
>>>> privileged-but-seccomped programs.
>>>
>>> Andy, I simply can't understand why do we need any security check at all.
>>>
>>> OK, yes, in theory we can have a seccomped CAP_SYS_ADMIN process, seccomp
>>> doesn't filter ptrace, you hack that process and force it to attach to
>>> another CAP_SYS_ADMIN/seccomped process, etc, etc... Looks too paranoid
>>> to me.
>>
>> I've sometimes considered having privileged processes I write fork and
>> seccomp their child.  Of course, if you're allowing ptrace through
>> your seccomp filter, you open a giant can of worms, but I think we
>> should take the more paranoid approach to start and relax it later as
>> needed.  After all, for the intended use of this patch, stuff will
>> break regardless of what we do if the ptracer is itself seccomped.
>>
>> I could be convinced that if the ptracer is outside seccomp then we
>> shouldn't need the CAP_SYS_ADMIN check.  That would at least make this
>> work in a user namespace.
>
> But not if that namespace is running under a manager that has added a
> seccomp filter to do things like drop finit_module, as lxc does.

In that case, criu isn't going to handle seccomp right regardless of
what our security check is, so I think we can safely deal with the
security aspects of that case once we figure out the functionality
part.

IOW, I think I still like the direct "you must not be seccomped in
order to suspend seccomp" rule.

--Andy
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