linux/lib
Christian Brauner 692ec06d7c netns: send uevent messages
This patch adds a receive method to NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT netlink sockets
to allow sending uevent messages into the network namespace the socket
belongs to.

Currently non-initial network namespaces are already isolated and don't
receive uevents. There are a number of cases where it is beneficial for a
sufficiently privileged userspace process to send a uevent into a network
namespace.

One such use case would be debugging and fuzzing of a piece of software
which listens and reacts to uevents. By running a copy of that software
inside a network namespace, specific uevents could then be presented to it.
More concretely, this would allow for easy testing of udevd/ueventd.

This will also allow some piece of software to run components inside a
separate network namespace and then effectively filter what that software
can receive. Some examples of software that do directly listen to uevents
and that we have in the past attempted to run inside a network namespace
are rbd (CEPH client) or the X server.

Implementation:
The implementation has been kept as simple as possible from the kernel's
perspective. Specifically, a simple input method uevent_net_rcv() is added
to NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT sockets which completely reuses existing
af_netlink infrastructure and does neither add an additional netlink family
nor requires any user-visible changes.

For example, by using netlink_rcv_skb() we can make use of existing netlink
infrastructure to report back informative error messages to userspace.

Furthermore, this implementation does not introduce any overhead for
existing uevent generating codepaths. The struct netns got a new uevent
socket member that records the uevent socket associated with that network
namespace including its position in the uevent socket list. Since we record
the uevent socket for each network namespace in struct net we don't have to
walk the whole uevent socket list. Instead we can directly retrieve the
relevant uevent socket and send the message. At exit time we can now also
trivially remove the uevent socket from the uevent socket list. This keeps
the codepath very performant without introducing needless overhead and even
makes older codepaths faster.

Uevent sequence numbers are kept global. When a uevent message is sent to
another network namespace the implementation will simply increment the
global uevent sequence number and append it to the received uevent. This
has the advantage that the kernel will never need to parse the received
uevent message to replace any existing uevent sequence numbers. Instead it
is up to the userspace process to remove any existing uevent sequence
numbers in case the uevent message to be sent contains any.

Security:
In order for a caller to send uevent messages to a target network namespace
the caller must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the owning user namespace of the
target network namespace. Additionally, any received uevent message is
verified to not exceed size UEVENT_BUFFER_SIZE. This includes the space
needed to append the uevent sequence number.

Testing:
This patch has been tested and verified to work with the following udev
implementations:
1. CentOS 6 with udevd version 147
2. Debian Sid with systemd-udevd version 237
3. Android 7.1.1 with ueventd

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-03-22 11:16:43 -04:00
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842 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fonts License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lz4 lib/lz4: make arrays static const, reduces object code size 2017-10-03 17:54:25 -07:00
lzo License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
mpi lib/mpi: Fix umul_ppmm() for MIPS64r6 2017-12-22 19:39:09 +11:00
raid6 License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
reed_solomon
xz lib/xz: Add fall-through comments to a switch statement 2017-10-12 15:10:12 +02:00
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.c: fix potential buffer overflow 2017-05-08 17:15:12 -07:00
zstd lib: Add zstd modules 2017-08-15 09:02:08 -07:00
.gitignore
argv_split.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ashldi3.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
ashrdi3.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
asn1_decoder.c ASN.1: check for error from ASN1_OP_END__ACT actions 2017-12-08 15:13:27 +00:00
assoc_array.c lib/assoc_array: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() 2017-12-04 10:52:56 -08:00
atomic64_test.c lib/atomic64_test.c: add a test that atomic64_inc_not_zero() returns an int 2017-07-14 15:05:13 -07:00
atomic64.c
audit.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
bcd.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
bch.c
bitmap.c bitmap: replace bitmap_{from,to}_u32array 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
bitrev.c
bsearch.c lib/bsearch.c: micro-optimize pivot position calculation 2017-07-10 16:32:35 -07:00
btree.c
bucket_locks.c spinlock: Add library function to allocate spinlock buckets array 2017-12-11 09:58:39 -05:00
bug.c bug: define the "cut here" string in a single place 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
build_OID_registry
bust_spinlocks.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
chacha20.c crypto: chacha20 - use rol32() macro from bitops.h 2018-01-12 23:03:01 +11:00
check_signature.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
checksum.c
clz_ctz.c
clz_tab.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cmdline.c lib/cmdline.c: remove meaningless comment 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
cmpdi2.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
compat_audit.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
cordic.c
cpu_rmap.c
cpumask.c lib: optimize cpumask_next_and() 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
crc4.c docs: clean up and add rest of CRC functions to kernel-api.rst 2017-09-26 15:01:20 -06:00
crc7.c
crc8.c docs: clean up and add rest of CRC functions to kernel-api.rst 2017-09-26 15:01:20 -06:00
crc16.c
crc32.c docs: clean up and add rest of CRC functions to kernel-api.rst 2017-09-26 15:01:20 -06:00
crc32defs.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crc32test.c lib: add module support to crc32 tests 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
crc-ccitt.c lib/crc-ccitt: Add CCITT-FALSE CRC16 variant 2018-01-08 10:08:33 +00:00
crc-itu-t.c
crc-t10dif.c
ctype.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug_info.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
debug_locks.c
debugobjects.c debugobjects: Make kmemleak ignore debug objects 2017-08-14 16:51:01 +02:00
dec_and_lock.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
decompress_bunzip2.c
decompress_inflate.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
decompress_unlz4.c lib/decompress_unlz4: change module to work with new LZ4 module version 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
decompress_unlzma.c
decompress_unlzo.c
decompress_unxz.c
decompress.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
devres.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
digsig.c lib/digsig: fix dereference of NULL user_key_payload 2017-10-12 17:16:40 +01:00
div64.c A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. 2017-11-13 08:25:06 -08:00
dma-debug.c dma-debug: fix memory leak in debug_dma_alloc_coherent 2018-02-22 15:02:33 -08:00
dma-direct.c dma-direct: comment the dma_direct_free calling convention 2018-02-12 15:59:07 +00:00
dma-virt.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dump_stack.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
dynamic_debug.c dynamic-debug-howto: fix optional/omitted ending line number to be LARGE instead of 0 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
dynamic_queue_limits.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-11-15 11:56:19 -08:00
earlycpio.c
error-inject.c error-injection: Add injectable error types 2018-01-12 17:33:38 -08:00
errseq.c errseq: Add to documentation tree 2018-01-01 12:40:27 -07:00
extable.c lib/extable.c: use bsearch() library function in search_extable() 2017-07-10 16:32:35 -07:00
fault-inject.c fault-inject: fix wrong should_fail() decision in task context 2017-08-10 15:54:06 -07:00
fdt_empty_tree.c
fdt_ro.c
fdt_rw.c
fdt_strerror.c
fdt_sw.c
fdt_wip.c
fdt.c
find_bit_benchmark.c lib: optimize cpumask_next_and() 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
find_bit.c lib: optimize cpumask_next_and() 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
flex_array.c
flex_proportions.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
gcd.c lib/gcd: add kernel-doc notation 2017-10-07 10:45:14 -06:00
gen_crc32table.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
genalloc.c lib/genalloc.c: make the avail variable an atomic_long_t 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
glob.c lib: add module support to glob tests 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
globtest.c lib: add module support to glob tests 2017-02-24 17:46:57 -08:00
hexdump.c lib/hexdump.c: return -EINVAL in case of error in hex2bin() 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
idr.c idr: Fix handling of IDs above INT_MAX 2018-02-26 14:39:30 -05:00
inflate.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
int_sqrt.c lib/int_sqrt: adjust comments 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
interval_tree_test.c lib/rbtree-test: lower default params 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
interval_tree.c
iomap_copy.c
iomap.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
iommu-common.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
iommu-helper.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
ioremap.c License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some files 2017-11-02 10:04:46 -07:00
iov_iter.c new primitive: iov_iter_for_each_range() 2017-10-11 22:36:54 -04:00
irq_poll.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
irq_regs.c
is_single_threaded.c sched/headers: Prepare to move 'init_task' and 'init_thread_union' from <linux/sched.h> to <linux/sched/task.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:38 +01:00
jedec_ddr_data.c
kasprintf.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig dma mapping changes for Linux 4.16: 2018-01-31 11:32:27 -08:00
Kconfig.debug lib/Kconfig.debug: enable RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
Kconfig.kasan kasan: rework Kconfig settings 2018-02-06 18:32:47 -08:00
Kconfig.kgdb lib: update location of kgdb documentation 2017-05-16 08:44:22 -03:00
Kconfig.ubsan Kconfig: lib/Kconfig.ubsan fix reference to ubsan documentation 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
kfifo.c
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c netns: send uevent messages 2018-03-22 11:16:43 -04:00
kobject.c Driver Core updates for 4.16-rc1 2018-02-01 10:00:28 -08:00
kstrtox.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kstrtox.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lcm.c
libcrc32c.c crypto: Work around deallocated stack frame reference gcc bug on sparc. 2017-06-08 17:36:03 +08:00
list_debug.c bug: switch data corruption check to __must_check 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
list_sort.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
llist.c locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
locking-selftest-hardirq.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-mutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-rsem.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-rtmutex.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-softirq.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest-wsem.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
locking-selftest.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lockref.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
lru_cache.c
lshrdi3.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
Makefile lib/test_find_bit.c: rename to find_bit_benchmark.c 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
memory-notifier-error-inject.c
memweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
muldi3.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
net_utils.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
netdev-notifier-error-inject.c
nlattr.c netlink: Relax attr validation for fixed length types 2017-12-07 14:00:57 -05:00
nmi_backtrace.c lib/nmi_backtrace.c: fix kernel text address leak 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
nodemask.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
notifier-error-inject.c
notifier-error-inject.h License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
of-reconfig-notifier-error-inject.c
oid_registry.c 509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty 2017-12-08 15:13:28 +00:00
once.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-11-04 09:26:51 +09:00
parman.c lib: Introduce priority array area manager 2017-02-03 16:35:42 -05:00
parser.c parser: add u64 number parser 2016-12-06 10:17:03 +02:00
pci_iomap.c PCI: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 when no license was specified 2018-01-26 11:45:16 -06:00
percpu_counter.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
percpu_ida.c sched/headers: Prepare to remove the <linux/gfp.h> include from <linux/sched.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:34 +01:00
percpu_test.c
percpu-refcount.c percpu: READ_ONCE() now implies smp_read_barrier_depends() 2017-12-04 10:52:53 -08:00
plist.c sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to <linux/sched/clock.h> 2017-03-02 08:42:27 +01:00
pm-notifier-error-inject.c
prime_numbers.c lib/prime_numbers: Suppress warn on kmalloc failure 2017-01-23 09:17:12 +01:00
radix-tree.c ida: do zeroing in ida_pre_get() 2018-02-21 15:35:43 -08:00
random32.c treewide: Switch DEFINE_TIMER callbacks to struct timer_list * 2017-11-21 15:57:05 -08:00
ratelimit.c lib/ratelimit.c: use deferred printk() version 2017-10-03 17:54:26 -07:00
rational.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rbtree_test.c lib/rbtree-test: lower default params 2017-11-17 16:10:02 -08:00
rbtree.c lib/rbtree,drm/mm: add rbtree_replace_node_cached() 2017-12-14 16:00:48 -08:00
reciprocal_div.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
refcount.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rhashtable.c rhashtable: Call library function alloc_bucket_locks 2017-12-11 09:58:39 -05:00
sbitmap.c blk-mq: improve heavily contended tag case 2017-12-22 11:09:37 -07:00
scatterlist.c lib/scatterlist: Fix chaining support in sgl_alloc_order() 2018-01-19 12:31:03 -07:00
seq_buf.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
sg_pool.c
sg_split.c
sha1.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
show_mem.c lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask 2017-02-22 16:41:30 -08:00
siphash.c siphash: implement HalfSipHash1-3 for hash tables 2017-01-09 13:58:57 -05:00
smp_processor_id.c lib: do not use print_symbol() 2018-01-05 15:24:00 +01:00
sort.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
stackdepot.c lib/stackdepot.c: use a non-instrumented version of memcmp() 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
stmp_device.c
string_helpers.c mm: treewide: remove GFP_TEMPORARY allocation flag 2017-09-13 18:53:16 -07:00
string.c lib/strscpy: Shut up KASAN false-positives in strscpy() 2018-02-01 12:20:21 -08:00
strncpy_from_user.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
strnlen_user.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
swiotlb.c swiotlb: remove various exports 2018-01-15 09:35:50 +01:00
syscall.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
test_bitmap.c lib/test_bitmap.c: clean up test_zero_fill_copy() test case and rename 2018-02-06 18:32:44 -08:00
test_bpf.c test_bpf: reduce MAX_TESTRUNS 2018-02-28 17:49:18 +01:00
test_debug_virtual.c lib: add test module for CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL 2017-09-08 18:26:49 -07:00
test_firmware.c test_firmware: fix missing unlock on error in config_num_requests_store() 2018-01-22 16:55:38 +01:00
test_hash.c
test_hexdump.c
test_kasan.c kasan: remove redundant initialization of variable 'real_size' 2018-02-06 18:32:43 -08:00
test_kmod.c treewide: Use DEVICE_ATTR_RW 2018-01-09 16:33:31 +01:00
test_list_sort.c lib/test: delete five error messages for failed memory allocations 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
test_module.c
test_parman.c lib: fix spelling mistake: "actualy" -> "actually" 2017-02-26 11:03:38 -05:00
test_printf.c printk: hash addresses printed with %p 2017-11-29 12:09:02 +11:00
test_rhashtable.c rhashtable: Change rhashtable_walk_start to return void 2017-12-11 09:58:38 -05:00
test_siphash.c siphash: implement HalfSipHash1-3 for hash tables 2017-01-09 13:58:57 -05:00
test_sort.c lib/test_sort.c: add module unload support 2018-02-06 18:32:45 -08:00
test_static_key_base.c
test_static_keys.c
test_string.c lib: add module support to string tests 2017-11-17 16:10:01 -08:00
test_sysctl.c test_sysctl: test against int proc_dointvec() array support 2017-07-12 16:26:00 -07:00
test_user_copy.c lib: remove check for AVR32 arch in test_user_copy 2017-05-01 09:36:30 +02:00
test_uuid.c uuid: fix incorrect uuid_equal conversion in test_uuid_test 2017-07-21 09:38:30 +02:00
test-kstrtox.c
test-string_helpers.c
textsearch.c
timerqueue.c timerqueue: Document return values of timerqueue_add/del() 2017-12-29 23:13:10 +01:00
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c textsearch: fix typos in library helpers 2017-10-22 03:14:07 +01:00
ts_kmp.c textsearch: fix typos in library helpers 2017-10-22 03:14:07 +01:00
ubsan.c lib/ubsan: remove returns-nonnull-attribute checks 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
ubsan.h lib/ubsan: remove returns-nonnull-attribute checks 2018-02-06 18:32:46 -08:00
ucmpdi2.c move libgcc.h to include/linux 2017-12-01 13:09:40 -08:00
ucs2_string.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
usercopy.c Fix misannotated out-of-line _copy_to_user() 2017-12-11 09:35:11 -05:00
uuid.c Documentation: add UUID/GUID to kernel-api 2017-12-11 15:03:08 -07:00
vsprintf.c vsprintf: avoid misleading "(null)" for %px 2018-02-08 14:21:41 +01:00
win_minmax.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
xxhash.c lib: Add xxhash module 2017-08-15 09:02:07 -07:00