linux/net
David Howells d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret < 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
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9p CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in 9P2000 filesystem 2008-11-14 10:38:44 +11:00
802 net/802/fc.c: Fix compilation warnings 2008-10-15 00:13:53 -07:00
8021q net: Use hton[sl]() instead of __constant_hton[sl]() where applicable 2008-09-20 22:20:49 -07:00
appletalk net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
atm net/atm/lec.c: drop code after return 2008-09-22 19:24:45 -07:00
ax25 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the AX25 protocol 2008-11-14 10:39:06 +11:00
bluetooth Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-17 08:58:52 -07:00
bridge net: Fix disjunct computation of netdev features 2008-10-23 01:11:29 -07:00
can net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
core CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors 2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
dccp dccp: Port redirection support for DCCP 2008-10-19 23:36:47 -07:00
decnet Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-17 08:58:52 -07:00
dsa dsa: fix compile bug on s390 2008-10-13 18:58:48 -07:00
econet netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
ethernet dsa: add support for Trailer tagging format 2008-10-08 17:24:16 -07:00
ieee80211 net/ieee80211: adjust error handling 2008-08-22 16:29:49 -04:00
ipv4 udp: multicast packets need to check namespace 2008-11-01 21:22:23 -07:00
ipv6 CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the IPv6 protocol 2008-11-14 10:39:07 +11:00
ipx netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
irda Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-07-20 17:43:29 -07:00
iucv iucv: Fix mismerge again. 2008-09-30 03:03:35 -07:00
key key: fix setkey(8) policy set breakage 2008-10-31 16:41:26 -07:00
lapb
llc netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
mac80211 mac80211: correct warnings in minstrel rate control algorithm 2008-10-27 17:46:11 -04:00
netfilter netfilter: nf_conntrack_proto_gre: switch to register_pernet_gen_subsys() 2008-10-30 23:55:44 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: Fix compilation warnings in net/netlabel/netlabel_addrlist.c 2008-10-30 10:44:48 -04:00
netlink net: Remove CONFIG_KMOD from net/ (towards removing CONFIG_KMOD entirely) 2008-10-16 15:24:51 -07:00
netrom CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the netrom protocol 2008-11-14 10:39:08 +11:00
packet net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
phonet Phonet: do not reply to indication reset packets 2008-10-26 23:07:25 -07:00
rfkill RFKILL: fix input layer initialisation 2008-10-27 17:46:11 -04:00
rose CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the ROSE protocol 2008-11-14 10:39:08 +11:00
rxrpc CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials 2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
sched Merge branch 'timers/range-hrtimers' into v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2 2008-10-22 09:48:06 +02:00
sctp sctp: Fix to handle SHUTDOWN in SHUTDOWN_RECEIVED state 2008-10-23 01:01:18 -07:00
sunrpc CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors 2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
tipc tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict. 2008-09-02 23:38:32 -07:00
unix CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the UNIX socket protocol 2008-11-14 10:39:10 +11:00
wanrouter wanmain.c doesn't need syncppp.h 2008-07-23 23:00:36 +02:00
wireless wireless: fix regression caused by regulatory config option 2008-10-26 10:38:52 -07:00
x25 netns: Use net_eq() to compare net-namespaces for optimization. 2008-07-19 22:34:43 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: Fix xfrm_policy_gc_lock handling. 2008-11-03 19:11:29 -08:00
compat.c flag parameters: paccept 2008-07-24 10:47:27 -07:00
Kconfig net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support 2008-10-08 17:15:19 -07:00
Makefile net: Distributed Switch Architecture protocol support 2008-10-08 17:15:19 -07:00
nonet.c
socket.c CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the networking subsystem 2008-11-14 10:39:10 +11:00
sysctl_net.c missing bits of net-namespace / sysctl 2008-07-27 09:45:34 -07:00
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