linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] capabilities: Introduce CAP_CHECKPOINT

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Message-ID: <20200609184517.GL134822@grain>
Date:   Tue, 9 Jun 2020 21:45:17 +0300
From:   Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:     Adrian Reber <areber@...hat.com>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Pavel Emelyanov <ovzxemul@...il.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...il.com>,
        Nicolas Viennot <Nicolas.Viennot@...sigma.com>,
        Michał Cłapiński <mclapinski@...gle.com>,
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        Christine Flood <chf@...hat.com>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
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        Sargun Dhillon <sargun@...gun.me>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
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        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] capabilities: Introduce CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

On Wed, Jun 03, 2020 at 06:23:26PM +0200, Adrian Reber wrote:
> This patch introduces CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE, a new capability facilitating
> checkpoint/restore for non-root users.
> 
> Over the last years, The CRIU (Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace) team has been
> asked numerous times if it is possible to checkpoint/restore a process as
> non-root. The answer usually was: 'almost'.
> 
> The main blocker to restore a process as non-root was to control the PID of the
> restored process. This feature available via the clone3 system call, or via
> /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid is unfortunately guarded by CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
...
> 
> diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
> index d86c0afc8a85..ce02f3a4b2d7 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -2189,16 +2189,16 @@ struct map_files_info {
>  };
>  
>  /*
> - * Only allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN to follow the links, due to concerns about how the
> - * symlinks may be used to bypass permissions on ancestor directories in the
> - * path to the file in question.
> + * Only allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to follow the links, due
> + * to concerns about how the symlinks may be used to bypass permissions on
> + * ancestor directories in the path to the file in question.
>   */
>  static const char *
>  proc_map_files_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
>  			struct inode *inode,
>  		        struct delayed_call *done)
>  {
> -	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> +	if (!(capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || capable(CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE)))
>  		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);

First of all -- sorry for late reply. You know, looking into this code more
I think this CAP_SYS_ADMIN is simply wrong: for example I can't even fetch
links for /proc/self/map_files. Still /proc/$pid/maps (which as well points
to the files opened) test for ptrace-read permission. I think we need
ptrace-may-attach test here instead of these capabilities (if I can attach
to a process I can read any data needed, including the content of the
mapped files, if only I'm not missing something obvious).