The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 1756d7994ad85c2479af6ae5a9750b92324685af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:02:28 -1000 Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: Use open-time credentials for process migraton perm checks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
cgroup process migration permission checks are performed at write time as whether a given operation is allowed or not is dependent on the content of the write - the PID. This currently uses current's credentials which is a potential security weakness as it may allow scenarios where a less privileged process tricks a more privileged one into writing into a fd that it created.
This patch makes both cgroup2 and cgroup1 process migration interfaces to use the credentials saved at the time of open (file->f_cred) instead of current's.
Reported-by: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederm@xmission.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linuxfoundation.org Fixes: 187fe84067bd ("cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy") Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný mkoutny@suse.com Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo tj@kernel.org
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c index 81c9e0685948..0e7369103ba6 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c @@ -504,10 +504,11 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup1_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, goto out_unlock;
/* - * Even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we only - * need to check permissions on one of them. + * Even if we're attaching all tasks in the thread group, we only need + * to check permissions on one of them. Check permissions using the + * credentials from file open to protect against inherited fd attacks. */ - cred = current_cred(); + cred = of->file->f_cred; tcred = get_task_cred(task); if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) && diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 919194de39c8..2632e46da1d4 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -4892,6 +4892,7 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, { struct cgroup *src_cgrp, *dst_cgrp; struct task_struct *task; + const struct cred *saved_cred; ssize_t ret; bool locked;
@@ -4909,9 +4910,15 @@ static ssize_t __cgroup_procs_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, src_cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(task, &cgrp_dfl_root); spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock);
- /* process and thread migrations follow same delegation rule */ + /* + * Process and thread migrations follow same delegation rule. Check + * permissions using the credentials from file open to protect against + * inherited fd attacks. + */ + saved_cred = override_creds(of->file->f_cred); ret = cgroup_attach_permissions(src_cgrp, dst_cgrp, of->file->f_path.dentry->d_sb, threadgroup); + revert_creds(saved_cred); if (ret) goto out_finish;