linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/5] exec: Remove recursion from search_binary

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 14:55:27 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
        Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] exec: Remove recursion from search_binary_handler

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 09:33:21AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:30 PM Tetsuo Handa
> > <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> >>
> >> Wouldn't this change cause
> >>
> >>         if (fd_binary > 0)
> >>                 ksys_close(fd_binary);
> >>         bprm->interp_flags = 0;
> >>         bprm->interp_data = 0;
> >>
> >> not to be called when "Search for the interpreter" failed?
> >
> > Good catch. We seem to have some subtle magic wrt the fd_binary file
> > descriptor, which depends on the recursive behavior.
> 
> Yes.  I Tetsuo I really appreciate you noticing this.  This is exactly
> the kind of behavior I am trying to flush out and keep from being
> hidden.
> 
> > I'm not seeing how to fix it cleanly with the "turn it into a loop".
> > Basically, that binfmt_misc use-case isn't really a tail-call.
> 
> I have reservations about installing a new file descriptor before
> we process the close on exec logic and the related security modules
> closing file descriptors that your new credentials no longer give
> you access to logic.

Hm, this does feel odd. In looking at this, it seems like this file
never gets close-on-exec set, and doesn't have its flags changed from
its original open:
                .open_flag = O_LARGEFILE | O_RDONLY | __FMODE_EXEC,
only the UMH path through exec doesn't explicitly open a file by name
from what I can see, so we'll only have these flags.

> I haven't yet figured out how opening a file descriptor during exec
> should fit into all of that.
> 
> What I do see is that interp_data is just a parameter that is smuggled
> into the call of search binary handler.  And the next binary handler
> needs to be binfmt_elf for it to make much sense, as only binfmt_elf
> (and binfmt_elf_fdpic) deals with BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD.
> 
> So I think what needs to happen is to rename bprm->interp_data to
> bprm->execfd, remove BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD and make closing that file
> descriptor free_bprm's responsiblity.

Yeah, I would agree. As far as the close handling, I don't think there
is a difference here: it interp_data was closed on the binfmt_misc.c
error path, and in the new world it would be the exec error path -- both
would be under the original credentials.

> I hope such a change will make it easier to see all of the pieces that
> are intereacting during exec.

Right -- I'm not sure which piece should "consume" bprm->execfd though,
which I think is what you're asking next...

> I am still asking: is the installation of that file descriptor useful if
> it is not exported passed to userspace as an AT_EXECFD note?
> 
> I will dig in and see what I can come up with.

Should binfmt_misc do the install, or can the consuming binfmt do it?
i.e. when binfmt_elf sees bprm->execfd, does it perform the install
instead?

-- 
Kees Cook