Re: [PATCH v2] xattr: Enable security.capability in user namespaces
From: Stefan Berger
Date: Tue Jul 18 2017 - 12:11:19 EST
On 07/18/2017 10:57 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:21:22AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 07/18/2017 08:30 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 08:05:18AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 07/18/2017 07:48 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 04:50:22PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
On 07/17/2017 02:58 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:05:11AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
[..]
+/*
+ * xattr_list_userns_rewrite - Rewrite list of xattr names for user namespaces
+ * or determine needed size for attribute list
+ * in case size == 0
+ *
+ * In a user namespace we do not present all extended attributes to the
+ * user. We filter out those that are in the list of userns supported xattr.
+ * Besides that we filter out those with @uid=<uid> when there is no mapping
+ * for that uid in the current user namespace.
+ *
+ * @list: list of 0-byte separated xattr names
+ * @size: the size of the list; may be 0 to determine needed list size
+ * @list_maxlen: allocated buffer size of list
+ */
+static ssize_t
+xattr_list_userns_rewrite(char *list, ssize_t size, size_t list_maxlen)
+{
+ char *nlist = NULL;
+ size_t s_off, len, nlen;
+ ssize_t d_off;
+ char *name, *newname;
+
+ if (!list || size < 0 || current_user_ns() == &init_user_ns)
size will never be less than 0 here. Only caller calls this function only
if size is >0. So can we remove this?
Correct.
What about case of "!list". So if user space called listxattr(foo, NULL,
0), we want to return the size of buffer as if all the xattrs will be
returned to user space. But in practice we probably will filter out some
xattrs so actually returned string will be smaller than size reported
previously.
This case of size=0 is a problem in userns. Depending on the mapping of the
userid's the list can expand. A security.foo@uid=100 can become
security.foo@uid=100000, if the mapping is set up so that uid 100 on the
host becomes uid 100000 inside the container. So for now we only have
security.capability and the way I solved this is by allocating a 65k buffer
when calling from a userns. In this buffer where we gather the xattr names
and then walk them to determine the size that's needed for the buffer by
simulating the rewriting. It's not nice but I don't know of any other
solution.
Hi Stefan,
For the case of size==0, why don't we iterate through all the xattr,
filter them, remap them and then return the size to process in user
namespace. That should fix this? I thought that's what
For the size==0 we need a temp. buffer where the raw xattr names are written
to so that the xattr_list_userns_rewrite() can actually rewrite what the
filesystem drivers returned.
I am probably missing something, but for the case of size==0, we don't
have to copy all xattrs. We just need to determine size. So we can walk
through each xattr, remap it and add to the size. I mean there should not
be a need to allocate this 65K buffer. Just enough space needed to be
able to store remapped xattr.
You are already doing it in xattr_parse_uid_from_kuid(). It returns the
buffer containing remapped xattr. So we should be able to just determine
the size and free the buffer. And do it for all the xattrs returned by
filesystem.
What am I missing?
The problem is that each filesystem has a function that collects the xattr
names. These functions only return the needed size if size==0 and don't
write anything into a buffer. If the buffer is empty or there is no buffer,
I have nothing to remap and calculate size for.
How about calling listxattr() twice. In the first call you will get the
size of buffer to allocate. Allocate that buffer and call ->listxattr()
again, this time passing that buffer? That way you will not have to
hardcode the size of buffer.
Good idea. I modified the code to do this now. Thanks.
Stefan