[PATCH v2] tty: allow TIOCSLCKTRMIOS with CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

From: Adrian Reber
Date: Fri Dec 08 2023 - 09:37:19 EST


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.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- replaced "if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE))"
with "if (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(&init_user_ns))" as suggested
by Christian Brauner
- v1: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-serial/20231206134340.7093-1-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..85de90eebc7b 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 (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(&init_user_ns))
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 (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(&init_user_ns))
return -EPERM;
copy_termios_locked(real_tty, &kterm);
if (user_termios_to_kernel_termios_1(&kterm,

base-commit: 98b1cc82c4affc16f5598d4fa14b1858671b2263
--
2.43.0