[PATCH v6 1/2] security: tty: Add owner user namespace to tty_struct

From: Matt Brown
Date: Fri May 05 2017 - 19:21:31 EST


This patch adds struct user_namespace *owner_user_ns to the tty_struct.
Then it is set to current_user_ns() in the alloc_tty_struct function.

This is done to facilitate capability checks against the original user
namespace that allocated the tty.

E.g. ns_capable(tty->owner_user_ns,CAP_SYS_ADMIN)

This combined with the use of user namespace's will allow hardening
protections to be built to mitigate container escapes that utilize TTY
ioctls such as TIOCSTI.

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1411256

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Brown <matt@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 2 ++
include/linux/tty.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index e6d1a65..c276814 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ static void free_tty_struct(struct tty_struct *tty)
put_device(tty->dev);
kfree(tty->write_buf);
tty->magic = 0xDEADDEAD;
+ put_user_ns(tty->owner_user_ns);
kfree(tty);
}

@@ -3191,6 +3192,7 @@ struct tty_struct *alloc_tty_struct(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx)
tty->index = idx;
tty_line_name(driver, idx, tty->name);
tty->dev = tty_get_device(tty);
+ tty->owner_user_ns = get_user_ns(current_user_ns());

return tty;
}
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 1017e904..d902d42 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <uapi/linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/llist.h>
+#include <linux/user_namespace.h>


/*
@@ -333,6 +334,7 @@ struct tty_struct {
/* If the tty has a pending do_SAK, queue it here - akpm */
struct work_struct SAK_work;
struct tty_port *port;
+ struct user_namespace *owner_user_ns;
};

/* Each of a tty's open files has private_data pointing to tty_file_private */
--
2.10.2