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Message-ID: <f98ee21e-00f0-c4c8-1a4c-b1086a003633@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Dec 2016 08:17:05 +0100
From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>
To:     Andrei Vagin <avagin@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     mtk.manpages@...il.com,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        "W. Trevor King" <wking@...mily.us>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] nsfs: Add an ioctl() to return creator UID of a
 userns

Hi Andrei,

On 12/21/2016 04:13 AM, Andrei Vagin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 03:38:35PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> # Some open questions about this patch below.
>> #
>> One of the rules regarding capabilities is:
>>
>>     A process that resides in the parent of the user namespace and
>>     whose effective user ID matches the owner of the namespace has
>>     all capabilities in the namespace.
>>
>> Therefore, in order to write code that discovers whether process X has
>> capabilities in namespace Y, we need a way to find out who the creator
>> of a user namespace is. This patch adds an NS_GET_CREATOR_UID ioctl()
>> that returns the (munged) UID of the creator of the user namespace
>> referred to by the specified file descriptor.
>>
>> If the supplied file descriptor does not refer to a user namespace,
>> the operation fails with the error EINVAL.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  fs/nsfs.c                 | 6 ++++++
>>  include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h | 8 +++++---
>>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> Open questions:
>>
>> * Would it be preferabe to separate the logic for NS_GET_CREATOR_UID
>>   into a small helper function?
>> * Is this a correct use of container_of()? I did not immediately
>>   see another way to get to the user_namespace struct, but I
>>   may well have missed something.
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nsfs.c b/fs/nsfs.c
>> index 5d53476..26f6d94 100644
>> --- a/fs/nsfs.c
>> +++ b/fs/nsfs.c
>> @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ int open_related_ns(struct ns_common *ns,
>>  static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
>>  			unsigned long arg)
>>  {
>> +	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
>>  	struct ns_common *ns = get_proc_ns(file_inode(filp));
>>  
>>  	switch (ioctl) {
>> @@ -174,6 +175,11 @@ static long ns_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int ioctl,
>>  		return open_related_ns(ns, ns->ops->get_parent);
>>  	case NS_GET_NSTYPE:
>>  		return ns->ops->type;
>> +	case NS_GET_CREATOR_UID:
>> +		if (ns->ops->type != CLONE_NEWUSER)
>> +			return -EINVAL;
>> +		user_ns = container_of(ns, struct user_namespace, ns);
>> +		return from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), user_ns->owner);
> 
> uid_t is "unsigned int", ioctl() returns long, so it may be hard to
> distinguish user id-s from errors on x32.

Good point. So, we could instead return the UID via a buffer pointed to 
by the ioctl() arg. That would seem better, right?

> off-topic: What is about user_ns->group? I can't find where it is used...

I've no idea. Like you, I can't see any place where it's being used.

Cheers,

Michael


>>  	default:
>>  		return -ENOTTY;
>>  	}
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
>> index 2b48df1..b3c6c78 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/nsfs.h
>> @@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
>>  #define NSIO	0xb7
>>  
>>  /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to an owning user namespace */
>> -#define NS_GET_USERNS	_IO(NSIO, 0x1)
>> +#define NS_GET_USERNS		_IO(NSIO, 0x1)
>>  /* Returns a file descriptor that refers to a parent namespace */
>> -#define NS_GET_PARENT	_IO(NSIO, 0x2)
>> +#define NS_GET_PARENT		_IO(NSIO, 0x2)
>>  /* Returns the type of namespace (CLONE_NEW* value) referred to by
>>     file descriptor */
>> -#define NS_GET_NSTYPE	_IO(NSIO, 0x3)
>> +#define NS_GET_NSTYPE		_IO(NSIO, 0x3)
>> +/* Get creator UID for a user namespace */
>> +#define NS_GET_CREATOR_UID	_IO(NSIO, 0x4)
>>  
>>  #endif /* __LINUX_NSFS_H */
>> -- 
>> 2.5.5
>>
> 


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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