linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] seccomp: Add group_leader pid to seccomp

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Message-ID: <20200517144603.GD1996744@cisco>
Date:   Sun, 17 May 2020 08:46:03 -0600
From:   Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seccomp: Add group_leader pid to seccomp_notif

On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 08:23:16AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 09:21:56PM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > > On 2020-05-17, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com> wrote:
> > > > Or... And that's more invasive but ultimately cleaner we v2 the whole
> > > > thing so e.g. SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV2, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND2, and
> > > > embedd the size argument in the structs. Userspace sets the size
> > > > argument, we use get_user() to get the size first and then
> > > > copy_struct_from_user() to handle it cleanly based on that. A similar
> > > > model as with sched (has other unrelated quirks because they messed up
> > > > something too):
> > > > 
> > > > static int sched_copy_attr(struct sched_attr __user *uattr, struct sched_attr *attr)
> > > > {
> > > > 	u32 size;
> > > > 	int ret;
> > > > 
> > > > 	/* Zero the full structure, so that a short copy will be nice: */
> > > > 	memset(attr, 0, sizeof(*attr));
> > > > 
> > > > 	ret = get_user(size, &uattr->size);
> > > > 	if (ret)
> > > > 		return ret;
> > > > 
> > > > 	/* ABI compatibility quirk: */
> > > > 	if (!size)
> > > > 		size = SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0;
> > > > 	if (size < SCHED_ATTR_SIZE_VER0 || size > PAGE_SIZE)
> > > > 		goto err_size;
> > > > 
> > > > 	ret = copy_struct_from_user(attr, sizeof(*attr), uattr, size);
> > > > 	if (ret) {
> > > > 		if (ret == -E2BIG)
> > > > 			goto err_size;
> > > > 		return ret;
> > > > 	}
> > > > 
> > > > We're probably the biggest user of this right now and I'd be ok with
> > > > that change. If it's a v2 than whatever. :)
> > > 
> > > I'm :+1: on a new version and switch to copy_struct_from_user(). I was a
> > > little surprised when I found out that user_notif doesn't do it this
> > > way a while ago (and although in theory it is userspace's fault, ideally
> > > we could have an API that doesn't have built-in footguns).
> > 
> > But I thought the whole point was that we couldn't do that, because
> > there's two things that can vary in length (struct seccomp_notif and
> > struct seccomp_data)?
> 
> I may have missed that discussion you linked.
> But why wouldn't:
> 
> struct seccomp_notif2 {
> 	__u32 notif_size;
> 	__u64 id;
> 	__u32 pid;
> 	__u32 flags;
> 	struct seccomp_data data;
> 	__u32 data_size;
> };

I guess you need to put data_size before data, otherwise old userspace
with a smaller struct seccomp_data will look in the wrong place.

But yes, that'll work if you put two sizes in, which is probably
reasonable since we're talking about two structs.

Tycho