[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "net: Fix ns_capable check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Jun 3 10:27:21 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: Fix ns_capable check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From e29d0b39e87b29e468e4dd880a13a40fd64ba9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 21:41:34 -0700
Subject: net: Fix ns_capable check in sock_diag_put_filterinfo

commit 78541c1dc60b65ecfce5a6a096fc260219d6784e upstream.

The caller needs capabilities on the namespace being queried, not on
their own namespace.  This is a security bug, although it likely has
only a minor impact.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel at 6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/sock_diag.h | 2 +-
 net/core/sock_diag.c      | 4 ++--
 net/packet/diag.c         | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sock_diag.h b/include/linux/sock_diag.h
index 54f91d35e5fd..302ab805b0bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/sock_diag.h
+++ b/include/linux/sock_diag.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ int sock_diag_check_cookie(void *sk, __u32 *cookie);
 void sock_diag_save_cookie(void *sk, __u32 *cookie);

 int sock_diag_put_meminfo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int attr);
-int sock_diag_put_filterinfo(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct sock *sk,
+int sock_diag_put_filterinfo(struct sock *sk,
 			     struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype);

 #endif
diff --git a/net/core/sock_diag.c b/net/core/sock_diag.c
index a0e9cf6379de..6a7fae228634 100644
--- a/net/core/sock_diag.c
+++ b/net/core/sock_diag.c
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int sock_diag_put_meminfo(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sock_diag_put_meminfo);

-int sock_diag_put_filterinfo(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct sock *sk,
+int sock_diag_put_filterinfo(struct sock *sk,
 			     struct sk_buff *skb, int attrtype)
 {
 	struct nlattr *attr;
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int sock_diag_put_filterinfo(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct sock *sk,
 	unsigned int len;
 	int err = 0;

-	if (!ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
+	if (!ns_capable(sock_net(sk)->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN)) {
 		nla_reserve(skb, attrtype, 0);
 		return 0;
 	}
diff --git a/net/packet/diag.c b/net/packet/diag.c
index a9584a2f6d69..ec8b6e8a80b1 100644
--- a/net/packet/diag.c
+++ b/net/packet/diag.c
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ static int sk_diag_fill(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb,
 		goto out_nlmsg_trim;

 	if ((req->pdiag_show & PACKET_SHOW_FILTER) &&
-	    sock_diag_put_filterinfo(user_ns, sk, skb, PACKET_DIAG_FILTER))
+	    sock_diag_put_filterinfo(sk, skb, PACKET_DIAG_FILTER))
 		goto out_nlmsg_trim;

 	return nlmsg_end(skb, nlh);
--
1.9.1





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