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authorAlexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>2020-04-19 17:10:52 +0300
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-04-22 18:51:21 +0300
commitfa10fed30f2550313a8284365b3e2398526eb42c (patch)
tree3bbe35cefe0d3baa02269b29ee507a2a958ea0e8 /fs/proc/self.c
parent1e88c420190be8f888015d9b357f16a85c81e865 (diff)
downloadlinux-fa10fed30f2550313a8284365b3e2398526eb42c.tar.xz
proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace
This patch allows to have multiple procfs instances inside the same pid namespace. The aim here is lightweight sandboxes, and to allow that we have to modernize procfs internals. 1) The main aim of this work is to have on embedded systems one supervisor for apps. Right now we have some lightweight sandbox support, however if we create pid namespacess we have to manages all the processes inside too, where our goal is to be able to run a bunch of apps each one inside its own mount namespace without being able to notice each other. We only want to use mount namespaces, and we want procfs to behave more like a real mount point. 2) Linux Security Modules have multiple ptrace paths inside some subsystems, however inside procfs, the implementation does not guarantee that the ptrace() check which triggers the security_ptrace_check() hook will always run. We have the 'hidepid' mount option that can be used to force the ptrace_may_access() check inside has_pid_permissions() to run. The problem is that 'hidepid' is per pid namespace and not attached to the mount point, any remount or modification of 'hidepid' will propagate to all other procfs mounts. This also does not allow to support Yama LSM easily in desktop and user sessions. Yama ptrace scope which restricts ptrace and some other syscalls to be allowed only on inferiors, can be updated to have a per-task context, where the context will be inherited during fork(), clone() and preserved across execve(). If we support multiple private procfs instances, then we may force the ptrace_may_access() on /proc/<pids>/ to always run inside that new procfs instances. This will allow to specifiy on user sessions if we should populate procfs with pids that the user can ptrace or not. By using Yama ptrace scope, some restricted users will only be able to see inferiors inside /proc, they won't even be able to see their other processes. Some software like Chromium, Firefox's crash handler, Wine and others are already using Yama to restrict which processes can be ptracable. With this change this will give the possibility to restrict /proc/<pids>/ but more importantly this will give desktop users a generic and usuable way to specifiy which users should see all processes and which users can not. Side notes: * This covers the lack of seccomp where it is not able to parse arguments, it is easy to install a seccomp filter on direct syscalls that operate on pids, however /proc/<pid>/ is a Linux ABI using filesystem syscalls. With this change LSMs should be able to analyze open/read/write/close... In the new patch set version I removed the 'newinstance' option as suggested by Eric W. Biederman. Selftest has been added to verify new behavior. Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/proc/self.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/proc/self.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/proc/self.c b/fs/proc/self.c
index 57c0a1047250..309301ac0136 100644
--- a/fs/proc/self.c
+++ b/fs/proc/self.c
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ static unsigned self_inum __ro_after_init;
int proc_setup_self(struct super_block *s)
{
struct inode *root_inode = d_inode(s->s_root);
- struct pid_namespace *ns = proc_pid_ns(root_inode);
+ struct proc_fs_info *fs_info = proc_sb_info(s);
struct dentry *self;
int ret = -ENOMEM;
-
+
inode_lock(root_inode);
self = d_alloc_name(s->s_root, "self");
if (self) {
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ int proc_setup_self(struct super_block *s)
if (ret)
pr_err("proc_fill_super: can't allocate /proc/self\n");
else
- ns->proc_self = self;
+ fs_info->proc_self = self;
return ret;
}