The primary motivation for the need for this flag is container runtimes which have to interact with malicious root filesystems in the host namespaces. One of the first requirements for a container runtime to be secure against a malicious rootfs is that they correctly scope symlinks (that is, they should be scoped as though they are chroot(2)ed into the container's rootfs) and ".."-style paths[*]. The already-existing LOOKUP_NO_XDEV and LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS help defend against other potential attacks in a malicious rootfs scenario.
Currently most container runtimes try to do this resolution in userspace[1], causing many potential race conditions. In addition, the "obvious" alternative (actually performing a {ch,pivot_}root(2)) requires a fork+exec (for some runtimes) which is *very* costly if necessary for every filesystem operation involving a container.
[*] At the moment, ".." and magic-link jumping are disallowed for the same reason it is disabled for LOOKUP_BENEATH -- currently it is not safe to allow it. Future patches may enable it unconditionally once we have resolved the possible races (for "..") and semantics (for magic-link jumping).
The most significant *at(2) semantic change with LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is that absolute pathnames no longer cause the dirfd to be ignored completely.
The rationale is that LOOKUP_IN_ROOT must necessarily chroot-scope symlinks with absolute paths to dirfd, and so doing it for the base path seems to be the most consistent behaviour (and also avoids foot-gunning users who want to scope paths that are absolute).
[1]: https://github.com/cyphar/filepath-securejoin
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner christian@brauner.io Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai cyphar@cyphar.com --- fs/namei.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- include/linux/namei.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 2e18ce5a313e..0352d275bd13 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -676,7 +676,7 @@ static int unlazy_walk(struct nameidata *nd) goto out1; if (!nd->root.mnt) { /* Restart from path_init() if nd->root was cleared. */ - if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH) + if (nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)) goto out; } else if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_ROOT)) { if (unlikely(!legitimize_path(nd, &nd->root, nd->root_seq))) @@ -809,10 +809,18 @@ static int complete_walk(struct nameidata *nd) return status; }
-static void set_root(struct nameidata *nd) +static int set_root(struct nameidata *nd) { struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
+ /* + * Jumping to the real root as part of LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is a BUG in namei, + * but we still have to ensure it doesn't happen because it will cause a + * breakout from the dirfd. + */ + if (WARN_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)) + return -ENOTRECOVERABLE; + if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { unsigned seq;
@@ -824,6 +832,7 @@ static void set_root(struct nameidata *nd) } else { get_fs_root(fs, &nd->root); } + return 0; }
static void path_put_conditional(struct path *path, struct nameidata *nd) @@ -854,6 +863,11 @@ static int nd_jump_root(struct nameidata *nd) if (nd->path.mnt != NULL && nd->path.mnt != nd->root.mnt) return -EXDEV; } + if (!nd->root.mnt) { + int error = set_root(nd); + if (error) + return error; + } if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { struct dentry *d; nd->path = nd->root; @@ -1100,15 +1114,13 @@ const char *get_link(struct nameidata *nd) if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS)) return ERR_PTR(-ELOOP); /* Not currently safe. */ - if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH)) + if (unlikely(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT))) return ERR_PTR(-EXDEV); } if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(res)) return res; } if (*res == '/') { - if (!nd->root.mnt) - set_root(nd); error = nd_jump_root(nd); if (unlikely(error)) return ERR_PTR(error); @@ -1744,15 +1756,20 @@ static inline int may_lookup(struct nameidata *nd) static inline int handle_dots(struct nameidata *nd, int type) { if (type == LAST_DOTDOT) { + int error = 0; + /* * LOOKUP_BENEATH resolving ".." is not currently safe -- races * can cause our parent to have moved outside of the root and * us to skip over it. */ - if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH)) + if (unlikely(nd->flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT))) return -EXDEV; - if (!nd->root.mnt) - set_root(nd); + if (!nd->root.mnt) { + error = set_root(nd); + if (error) + return error; + } if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU) { return follow_dotdot_rcu(nd); } else @@ -2251,9 +2268,13 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags)
nd->m_seq = read_seqbegin(&mount_lock);
+ /* LOOKUP_IN_ROOT treats absolute paths as being relative-to-dirfd. */ + if (flags & LOOKUP_IN_ROOT) + while (*s == '/') + s++; + /* Figure out the starting path and root (if needed). */ if (*s == '/') { - set_root(nd); error = nd_jump_root(nd); if (unlikely(error)) return ERR_PTR(error); @@ -2298,7 +2319,7 @@ static const char *path_init(struct nameidata *nd, unsigned flags) fdput(f); } /* For scoped-lookups we need to set the root to the dirfd as well. */ - if (flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH) { + if (flags & (LOOKUP_BENEATH | LOOKUP_IN_ROOT)) { nd->root = nd->path; if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU) nd->root_seq = nd->seq; diff --git a/include/linux/namei.h b/include/linux/namei.h index be407415c28a..ec2c6c588ea7 100644 --- a/include/linux/namei.h +++ b/include/linux/namei.h @@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ enum {LAST_NORM, LAST_ROOT, LAST_DOT, LAST_DOTDOT, LAST_BIND}; #define LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS 0x080000 /* No /proc/$pid/fd/ "symlink" crossing. */ #define LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS 0x100000 /* No symlink crossing *at all*. Implies LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS. */ +#define LOOKUP_IN_ROOT 0x200000 /* Treat dirfd as %current->fs->root. */
extern int path_pts(struct path *path);