Re: [PATCH] tty: allow TIOCSLCKTRMIOS with CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Dec 08 2023 - 08:12:35 EST


On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:43:40PM +0100, Adrian Reber wrote:
> The capability CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE was introduced to allow non-root
> users to checkpoint and restore processes as non-root with CRIU.
>
> This change extends CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to enable the CRIU option
> '--shell-job' as non-root. CRIU's man-page describes the '--shell-job'
> option like this:
>
> Allow one to dump shell jobs. This implies the restored task will
> inherit session and process group ID from the criu itself. This option
> also allows to migrate a single external tty connection, to migrate
> applications like top.
>
> TIOCSLCKTRMIOS can only be done if the process has CAP_SYS_ADMIN and
> this change extends it to CAP_SYS_ADMIN or CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.
>
> With this change it is possible to checkpoint and restore processes
> which have a tty connection as non-root if CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is
> set.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
> index 4b499301a3db..95d14d7128cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
> @@ -844,7 +844,7 @@ int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> ret = -EFAULT;
> return ret;
> case TIOCSLCKTRMIOS:
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE))

In both cases you should be able to use:

if (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(&init_user_ns))
return -EPERM;

with that fixed,

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

> return -EPERM;
> copy_termios_locked(real_tty, &kterm);
> if (user_termios_to_kernel_termios(&kterm,
> @@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
> ret = -EFAULT;
> return ret;
> case TIOCSLCKTRMIOS:
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE))
> return -EPERM;
> copy_termios_locked(real_tty, &kterm);
> if (user_termios_to_kernel_termios_1(&kterm,
>
> base-commit: 98b1cc82c4affc16f5598d4fa14b1858671b2263
> --
> 2.43.0
>