[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt14.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From a009287323a9e5fe9d10577e4a689eacc6a00604 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 18:01:11 -0600
Subject: userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been
 setablished

commit 273d2c67c3e179adb1e74f403d1e9a06e3f841b5 upstream.

setgroups is unique in not needing a valid mapping before it can be called,
in the case of setgroups(0, NULL) which drops all supplemental groups.

The design of the user namespace assumes that CAP_SETGID can not actually
be used until a gid mapping is established.  Therefore add a helper function
to see if the user namespace gid mapping has been established and call
that function in the setgroups permission check.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989, being able to drop groups
without privilege using user namespaces.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 include/linux/user_namespace.h |  5 +++++
 kernel/groups.c                |  4 +++-
 kernel/user_namespace.c        | 14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/user_namespace.h b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
index 4836ba3..dd4f91b 100644
--- a/include/linux/user_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/user_namespace.h
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ extern struct seq_operations proc_projid_seq_operations;
 extern ssize_t proc_uid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t proc_gid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern ssize_t proc_projid_map_write(struct file *, const char __user *, size_t, loff_t *);
+extern bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns);
 #else

 static inline struct user_namespace *get_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
@@ -87,6 +88,10 @@ static inline void put_user_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
 {
 }

+static inline bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
+{
+	return true;
+}
 #endif

 #endif /* _LINUX_USER_H */
diff --git a/kernel/groups.c b/kernel/groups.c
index 984bb62..67b4ba3 100644
--- a/kernel/groups.c
+++ b/kernel/groups.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/syscalls.h>
+#include <linux/user_namespace.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>

 /* init to 2 - one for init_task, one to ensure it is never freed */
@@ -227,7 +228,8 @@ bool may_setgroups(void)
 {
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();

-	return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID);
+	return ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SETGID) &&
+		userns_may_setgroups(user_ns);
 }

 /*
diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index 30a5362..a12b44f 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -838,6 +838,20 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
 	return false;
 }

+bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
+{
+	bool allowed;
+
+	mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
+	/* It is not safe to use setgroups until a gid mapping in
+	 * the user namespace has been established.
+	 */
+	allowed = ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0;
+	mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);
+
+	return allowed;
+}
+
 static void *userns_get(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
--
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