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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-06-18 23:54:28 +0300
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2015-06-18 23:54:28 +0300
commit187fe84067bd377047cfcb7f2bbc7c9dc12d290c (patch)
treed87df514914a46bd6ffed2bb43ebe8cadafd569d /include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
parentdedf22e9e66ef3fbefd1b8c750d2db11b690ade3 (diff)
downloadlinux-187fe84067bd377047cfcb7f2bbc7c9dc12d290c.tar.xz
cgroup: require write perm on common ancestor when moving processes on the default hierarchy
On traditional hierarchies, if a task has write access to "tasks" or "cgroup.procs" file of a cgroup and its euid agrees with the target, it can move the target to the cgroup; however, consider the following scenario. The owner of each cgroup is in the parentheses. R (root) - 0 (root) - 00 (user1) - 000 (user1) | \ 001 (user1) \ 1 (root) - 10 (user1) The subtrees of 00 and 10 are delegated to user1; however, while both subtrees may belong to the same user, it is clear that the two subtrees are to be isolated - they're under completely separate resource limits imposed by 0 and 1, respectively. Note that 0 and 1 aren't strictly necessary but added to ease illustrating the issue. If user1 is allowed to move processes between the two subtrees, the intention of the hierarchy - keeping a given group of processes under a subtree with certain resource restrictions while delegating management of the subtree - can be circumvented by user1. This happens because migration permission check doesn't consider the hierarchical nature of cgroups. To fix the issue, this patch adds an extra permission requirement when userland tries to migrate a process in the default hierarchy - the issuing task must have write access to the common ancestor of "cgroup.procs" file of the ancestor in addition to the destination's. Conceptually, the issuer must be able to move the target process from the source cgroup to the common ancestor of source and destination cgroups and then to the destination. As long as delegation is done in a proper top-down way, this guarantees that a delegatee can't smuggle processes across disjoint delegation domains. The next patch will add documentation on the delegation model on the default hierarchy. v2: Fixed missing !ret test. Spotted by Li Zefan. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index c5588c438448..93755a629299 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ struct cgroup {
int populated_cnt;
struct kernfs_node *kn; /* cgroup kernfs entry */
+ struct kernfs_node *procs_kn; /* kn for "cgroup.procs" */
struct kernfs_node *populated_kn; /* kn for "cgroup.subtree_populated" */
/*