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[RFC] selinux: allow context mounts on tmpfs, ramfs, devpts within user namespaces

Message ID 1481130967-24760-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov (mailing list archive)
State Rejected
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Stephen Smalley Dec. 7, 2016, 5:16 p.m. UTC
commit aad82892af261b9903cc11c55be3ecf5f0b0b4f8 ("selinux: Add support for
unprivileged mounts from user namespaces") prohibited any use of context
mount options within non-init user namespaces.  However, this breaks
use of context mount options for tmpfs mounts within user namespaces,
which are being used by Docker/runc.  There is no reason to block such
usage for tmpfs, ramfs or devpts.  Exempt these filesystem types
from this restriction.

Before:
sh$ userns_child_exec  -p -m -U -M '0 1000 1' -G '0 1000 1' bash
sh# mount -t tmpfs -o context=system_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0:c13 none /tmp
mount: tmpfs is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: cannot mount tmpfs read-only

After:
sh$ userns_child_exec  -p -m -U -M '0 1000 1' -G '0 1000 1' bash
sh# mount -t tmpfs -o context=system_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0:c13 none /tmp
sh# ls -Zd /tmp
unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 /tmp

Note that this still isn't quite right, and I do not know why yet -
the category (:c13) was dropped.  This works correctly in the init
namespace, and strace of mount shows that it is passing the context
correctly to the kernel and returning 0.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
---
 security/selinux/hooks.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

Stephen Smalley Dec. 7, 2016, 9:43 p.m. UTC | #1
On 12/07/2016 12:16 PM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> commit aad82892af261b9903cc11c55be3ecf5f0b0b4f8 ("selinux: Add support for
> unprivileged mounts from user namespaces") prohibited any use of context
> mount options within non-init user namespaces.  However, this breaks
> use of context mount options for tmpfs mounts within user namespaces,
> which are being used by Docker/runc.  There is no reason to block such
> usage for tmpfs, ramfs or devpts.  Exempt these filesystem types
> from this restriction.
> 
> Before:
> sh$ userns_child_exec  -p -m -U -M '0 1000 1' -G '0 1000 1' bash
> sh# mount -t tmpfs -o context=system_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0:c13 none /tmp
> mount: tmpfs is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: cannot mount tmpfs read-only
> 
> After:
> sh$ userns_child_exec  -p -m -U -M '0 1000 1' -G '0 1000 1' bash
> sh# mount -t tmpfs -o context=system_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0:c13 none /tmp
> sh# ls -Zd /tmp
> unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 /tmp
> 
> Note that this still isn't quite right, and I do not know why yet -
> the category (:c13) was dropped.  This works correctly in the init
> namespace, and strace of mount shows that it is passing the context
> correctly to the kernel and returning 0.

Never mind, this patch is wrong.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c | 8 ++++++--
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 98a2e92..ef882a3 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -839,8 +839,12 @@ static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
>  	if (sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns) {
>  		if (context_sid || fscontext_sid || rootcontext_sid ||
>  		    defcontext_sid) {
> -			rc = -EACCES;
> -			goto out;
> +			if (strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "tmpfs") &&
> +			    strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "ramfs") &&
> +			    strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "devpts")) {
> +				rc = -EACCES;
> +				goto out;
> +			}
>  		}
>  		if (sbsec->behavior == SECURITY_FS_USE_XATTR) {
>  			sbsec->behavior = SECURITY_FS_USE_MNTPOINT;
>
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diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 98a2e92..ef882a3 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -839,8 +839,12 @@  static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct super_block *sb,
 	if (sb->s_user_ns != &init_user_ns) {
 		if (context_sid || fscontext_sid || rootcontext_sid ||
 		    defcontext_sid) {
-			rc = -EACCES;
-			goto out;
+			if (strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "tmpfs") &&
+			    strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "ramfs") &&
+			    strcmp(sb->s_type->name, "devpts")) {
+				rc = -EACCES;
+				goto out;
+			}
 		}
 		if (sbsec->behavior == SECURITY_FS_USE_XATTR) {
 			sbsec->behavior = SECURITY_FS_USE_MNTPOINT;