The include list still reflects code that left this file years ago:
nothing here uses sched/mm.h, pagemap.h, namei.h, syscalls.h or
anything from fs/internal.h anymore, mount.h and the bm_fs_type
forward declaration lost their last user when the pinned bm_mnt
machinery was removed. Drop all of that and instead spell out the
headers the file actually relies on but so far pulled in
transitively: bitops, bits, bug, cleanup, cred, kstrtox, printk,
refcount, string and user_namespace. With that nothing needs the
kernel.h grab bag anymore, so it goes too, and the list is sorted
alphabetically.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-23-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Use umode_t for the mode argument of bm_get_inode(), constify the
fixed status strings in bm_status_read(), give the super_operations
the bm_ prefix everything else in this file uses, replace the stale
scanarg() comment which still described parameters and an err
variable it lost decades ago and fix the delimiter typo plus a
missing space nearby.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-22-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
bm_register_write() has to free the entry it got from create_entry()
on every failure until add_entry() has linked it into the filesystem
and made the inode its owner. Arm the entry with __free(kfree) so the
error branches can simply return and disarm it via
retain_and_null_ptr() once ownership has been handed to the inode.
The interpreter file keeps its manual error cleanup as freeing the
entry would not close it.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-21-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
create_entry() is a two hundred line parser with the M and E field
handling inlined as the two arms of its largest branch. Move them
into parse_magic_fields() and parse_extension_fields() which return
the new parse position or NULL so create_entry() itself reads like
the register string grammar again.
The offset parsing loses a provably dead check on the way: after
*s = '\0' and p = s the subsequent if (*p++) always reads the just
written NUL byte and can never fail, it only obscured that the code
simply advances past the delimiter.
With the field parsing gone every remaining failure unwinds the same
way, so hand the entry to __free(kfree), return errors directly and
pass ownership out via no_free_ptr() on success instead of routing
every exit through goto tails.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-20-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
create_entry() allocates the entry and the register string it parses
into in one chunk and finds the string part again through manual
pointer arithmetic behind a cast. Make the layout explicit with a
flexible array member and struct_size(), and give the magic pad of
trailing delimiters a name while at it.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-19-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Replace the cont flag and the pointer increment repeated in every
case with a for loop that returns from the default case, and shrink
the multi-line 'C implies O' remark to one line.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-18-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Both write handlers open-code the same removal dance - grab the root
inode lock, unlink, unlock - each carrying a verbatim copy of the
same eleven-line locking comment, and bm_entry_write() reuses its
inode variable for the root inode halfway through to pull it off.
Move the dance into bm_remove_entry() and bm_remove_all_entries()
and the locking rules into the kernel-doc of remove_binfmt_handler()
which both helpers wrap.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-17-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
parse_command() maps "0" to 1, "1" to 2 and "-1" to 3 and the write
handlers switch on those bare numbers, leaving every reader to redo
the mapping in their head. Name the commands and drop the per-case
comments that only existed to translate the numbers back.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-16-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
load_misc_binary() seeds retval with the error for checks that
happen further down, reassigns it along the way and funnels every
exit through a ret label whose only job is dropping the entry
reference, so figuring out what an early return actually returns
means replaying the assignment history. Give put_binfmt_handler() a
cleanup class and take the reference with __free() so every failure
can return its error right where the condition is checked. The
comment at the label restated what the put_binfmt_handler()
kernel-doc already explains, it goes with the label. Drop the dead
NULL initialization of interp_file which is assigned on all paths
before use.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-15-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
load_binfmt_misc() is one word swap away from load_misc_binary(),
the binfmt loader it serves. It doesn't load anything, it looks up
the binfmt_misc instance of the caller's user namespace, so name it
after what it returns in the style of current_user_ns() and friends.
Tighten the parent walk into a for loop and fix the stale wording
and typos in the kernel-doc while at it.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-14-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
search_binfmt_handler() open-codes both match types in one loop body
with the maskless magic comparison spelled as a manual xor loop that
is just memcmp() in disguise. Move the extension and magic checks
into helpers so the walk reads as policy - skip disabled entries,
match by entry type - and the maskless case actually uses memcmp().
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-13-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Reading an entry file allocates a whole page and formats the status
into it with a chain of manually advanced sprintf() calls, silently
relying on MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH plus the hex-expanded magic and mask
always staying below PAGE_SIZE. Convert the read side to seq_file
which sizes its buffer as needed and gets rid of the open-coded
pointer arithmetic including the last bin2hex() user in the file.
The output is byte for byte identical.
seq_open() clears FMODE_PWRITE for historical reasons and would
silently turn pwrite() on entry files into -ESPIPE even though
bm_entry_write() accepts writes at any offset. Restore the flag in
bm_entry_open() the same way kernfs does for its seq_file backed
files so pwrite() keeps working.
The only user-visible difference is that seeking is now bound by
seq_lseek() instead of default_llseek(), i.e. SEEK_END stops working
on entry files, which nothing can sensibly use anyway.
The status file keeps its simple_read_from_buffer() as it only ever
returns one of two fixed strings.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-12-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The hex dumps in create_entry() are compiled out unless someone edits
the file to define DEBUG while the pr_debug() calls right next to
them are dynamic-debug aware. Switch the dumps to
print_hex_dump_debug() which follows the same rules as pr_debug() so
the register parsing debug output is uniformly controlled through
dynamic debug, and remove the USE_DEBUG machinery.
Drop the magic[masked] dump instead of converting it: it printed the
bitwise AND of two buffers dumped right above it and required a
temporary allocation on every registration just to recompute what
the reader can derive from the magic and mask dumps directly.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-11-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
VERBOSE_STATUS is a compile-time constant that has been fixed to 1
for as long as git history reaches. Turning it off requires editing
the source and yields entry files that only ever report
"enabled"/"disabled", a format nothing has ever seen in the wild.
Remove the pretend knob and the dead branch it guards.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-10-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The CamelCase Node typedef is a 1997 leftover and hides that this is
a plain struct. Call it what it is: struct binfmt_misc_entry, matching
struct binfmt_misc that it hangs off of and the entry bit and flag
enums. Drop the typedef, switch the size computations in
create_entry() to sizeof(*e) and adjust the comments that still
referred to the old name.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-9-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The MISC_FMT_* behavior flags are macros using unsigned long literals
while the entry bit numbers right above them are now a proper enum.
Move the flags into an enum as well so every flags word constant is
declared in one form and shows up in debuginfo. (1U << N) keeps the
enumerators within unsigned int range which is well-defined for enum
constants and the values are unchanged when promoted to the unsigned
long flags word.
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-8-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Enabled and Magic are bit numbers in the flags word of an entry but
are declared as bare, unprefixed enumerators with implicit values in
a style that predates the git history. Give the enum a name, explicit
bit numbers and namespaced names and use BIT() instead of open-coding
the shifts when building the initial flags word in create_entry().
No functional change.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-7-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
->enabled has always been read and written locklessly: every exec
reads it in load_misc_binary() while bm_status_write() or a concurrent
remount via bm_fill_super() may flip it. That is fine as it is an
independent boolean toggle but the accesses should be marked
accordingly for KCSAN. Annotate them with READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE().
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-6-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Once binfmt_misc is loaded load_misc_binary() runs for every execve()
on the system since binfmt_misc registers at the head of the formats
list. Every exec therefore performs read_lock() and read_unlock() on
the entries_lock of the relevant binfmt_misc instance, i.e., two
atomic read-modify-writes on a shared cacheline. User namespaces
without their own binfmt_misc mount fall back to an ancestor's
instance so on container-heavy systems every exec on the machine
typically ends up hammering the cacheline of init_binfmt_misc. On
PREEMPT_RT the rwlock additionally turns the handler lookup into a
sleeping lock on the exec fast path.
The lock protects very little. Entries are immutable after publication
except for the Enabled bit which is already toggled locklessly via
set_bit()/clear_bit() and entry lifetime is already handled by the
users refcount via get_binfmt_handler()/put_binfmt_handler(). The read
lock's only remaining job is to make "the entry is still linked" and
"take a reference" atomic with respect to the unlink sites.
Switch the lookup to an RCU walk:
* Lookup walks the entry list under rcu_read_lock() and acquires a
reference via refcount_inc_not_zero(). The refcount can only drop to
zero after an entry has been unlinked so a failed increment means
the walk raced with an unlink. Restarting the search is bounded
because an unlinked entry cannot be found again.
* The unlink sites use hlist_del_init_rcu() which keeps the forward
pointer intact for concurrent walkers and preserves hlist_unhashed()
as the protection against double removal.
* The final put frees the entry via kfree_rcu() as a concurrent walker
may still dereference its flags, magic, mask, and inline strings.
They all live in the entry allocation itself and thus stay valid
until a grace period has elapsed. Closing the interpreter file stays
synchronous. It is only used with a reference already held and all
final puts run in process context.
* Writers remain serialized by the inode lock of the root dentry with
one exception. bm_evict_inode() called from generic_shutdown_super()
during umount unlinks entries without holding it. Keep a spinlock
around the unlink sites instead of relying on superblock lifetime
rules to make that exclusion implicit.
Handler removal semantics are unchanged. An exec that acquired a
reference just before its handler was unregistered already completes
with the removed handler today. The read lock never protected against
that, it only made the window smaller.
With this an exec that matches no binfmt_misc entry, the common case,
no longer writes to any shared cacheline at all.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-5-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The upcoming conversion of the handler lookup to RCU walks cannot use
list_del_init(): reinitializing the forward pointer of a removed entry
would make a concurrent lockless walker standing on that entry loop
back onto it indefinitely. The removal paths do rely on
reinitialization though because bm_{entry,status}_write() and
bm_evict_inode() need to detect whether an entry has already been
unlinked.
hlists support exactly this pattern: hlist_del_init_rcu() keeps the
forward pointer of the removed entry intact for concurrent walkers and
only zeroes ->pprev with hlist_unhashed() serving as the linked test.
Convert the entry list to an hlist now while keeping the rwlock so the
subsequent RCU conversion is a pure locking change. hlist_add_head()
inserts at the head just as list_add() did so lookup precedence
between registered handlers is unchanged.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-4-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
bm_get_tree() takes a reference to the user namespace and hands it to
get_tree_keyed() as the sget key. sget_fc() moves that reference into
sb->s_fs_info and clears fc->s_fs_info, so from that point on the
superblock owns it and bm_free() doesn't see it anymore.
The superblock drops it in ->put_super(). But generic_shutdown_super()
only calls ->put_super() from inside the if (sb->s_root) branch, so
nothing releases it when bm_fill_super() fails:
- The kzalloc_obj() failure leaves s_root NULL and the whole branch is
skipped.
- A simple_fill_super() failure in the file loop leaves s_root set, but
s_op still points at simple_super_operations, which has no
->put_super(). bm_fill_super() installs s_ops only once
simple_fill_super() returned success, and installing it earlier
wouldn't help either because simple_fill_super() overwrites s_op.
Either way vfs_get_super() calls deactivate_locked_super() and the
reference is gone for good. binfmt_misc mounts are available in a user
namespace and both the inode and the dentry cache are SLAB_ACCOUNT, so
an unprivileged caller under a tight memory cgroup can fail
simple_fill_super() on demand and leak one user namespace per attempt.
Drop the reference in ->kill_sb() instead, which runs unconditionally,
the same way nfsd and rpc_pipefs release their keyed s_fs_info.
That also stops ->put_super() from clearing s_fs_info while the
superblock is still on @fs_supers. generic_shutdown_super() leaves it
there on purpose so that sget_fc() keeps finding it until kill_sb() has
run, but a NULL s_fs_info makes test_keyed_super() miss it, so a
concurrent mount for the same user namespace skips the grab_super()
wait and creates a second superblock for a namespace that is still
being torn down.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728-work-binfmt_misc-usernsleak-v1-1-dbd8d5e626e7@kernel.org
Fixes: 21ca59b365 ("binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
The registration string starts with a user chosen delimiter that
separates the individual fields. So that the field parsers terminate
even on a truncated string create_entry() pads the buffer with that
same delimiter:
memset(buf + count, del, 8);
Most fields are scanned for the delimiter with strchr()/scanarg() and
happily stop on the padding. The flags field is different: instead of
scanning for the delimiter check_special_flags() consumes the flag
characters 'P', 'O', 'C' and 'F' and stops at the first byte that is
none of them, relying on the trailing delimiter to end the scan.
If the delimiter is itself a flag character the padding no longer acts
as a terminator. The scan swallows all eight padding bytes and keeps
reading past the end of the allocation until it hits a byte that is
not a flag character. For example registering
PaPEPPxPPiP
with 'P' as the delimiter (name "a", type extension, magic "x",
interpreter "i", empty flags) leaves the flag scan running off the end
of the buffer. The registration is rejected in the end because the
parser does not stop exactly at buf + count, but only after the out of
bounds read has already happened. With an unlucky allocation layout the
scan can walk into an unmapped page; under KASAN it is reported as a
slab out of bounds read. binfmt_misc mounts are available to
unprivileged users in a user namespace so the read is reachable without
privileges.
Reject a delimiter that is one of the flag characters up front. Such a
registration was always rejected anyway, only after the out of bounds
read, so no valid registration string changes meaning.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-3-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
For MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE entries load_misc_binary() clones the
registered interpreter file and denies write access to the clone via
plain deny_write_access(). The clone is installed as
bprm->interpreter and later released by the exec machinery through
exe_file_allow_write_access() which skips the i_writecount increment
for files with FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM set.
The deny and allow side can therefore come to different conclusions
when pre-content watches are in play: if a pre-content watch is added
to the interpreter after registration every subsequent exec through
that entry takes a write denial on the clone that is never paired
with a write allowance, driving the interpreter inode's i_writecount
further down with each exec and leaving the interpreter unwritable
even after the entry and all its users are gone.
Take the write denial via exe_file_deny_write_access() so both sides
of the pairing base their decision on the same file mode, and
propagate failure instead of silently ignoring it: an interpreter
that is concurrently open for writing now fails the exec with
ETXTBSY, exactly like an interpreter freshly opened via open_exec()
would.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-2-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Fixes: 0357ef03c9 ("fs: don't block write during exec on pre-content watched files")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Registering an entry with the MISC_FMT_OPEN_FILE flag opens the
interpreter via open_exec() which denies write access to it for as
long as the entry exists. Removing the entry closes the interpreter
file via filp_close() but never restores write access, leaving the
inode's i_writecount permanently negative. Opening the interpreter
for writing keeps failing with ETXTBSY long after the entry is gone
until the inode is evicted from the inode cache.
Commit 90f601b497 ("binfmt_misc: restore write access before
closing files opened by open_exec()") fixed the same imbalance in the
error path of bm_register_write() but the actual removal path has
been leaking the write denial since the introduction of the flag.
Restore write access in put_binfmt_handler() before closing the
interpreter file.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260710-work-binfmt_misc-locking-v3-1-a162f7cb58d6@kernel.org
Fixes: 948b701a60 ("binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for containers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
An entry registered with 'F' opens its interpreter at registration time
and holds that file until the entry is freed. Any entry nobody removes
by hand only gets closed once the binfmt_misc superblock is shut down.
If the interpreter lives on a mount that keeps that superblock alive the
two pin each other:
binfmt_misc sb -> inode -> entry -> interp_file -> vfsmount -> binfmt_misc sb
TL;DR the file is never closed. Once the mount namespace is gone there
is nothing left to unregister through either.
There are two ways to trigger this bug:
- Point the interpreter at the instance itself. Its files are regular
files owned by the mounter and both bm_get_inode() and
simple_fill_super() leave i_op at empty_iops. So notify_change() falls
back to simple_setattr() and chmod +x works. We never set SB_I_NOEXEC
and so open_exec() accepts it.
- Use the instance as an overlayfs lower layer. The overlay superblock
holds a clone_private_mount() of every layer until it is destroyed and
that clone is in no namespace. So umount_tree() never reaches it.
That's a DoS. And it isn't only the superblock that leaks. It pins the
user namespace it was mounted in, so every iteration permanently eats
one of the caller's user namespace charges.
So let's just do the sane thing. SB_I_NOEXEC makes open_exec() fail on
the instance's own files and s_stack_depth makes overlayfs reject the
layer before it ever takes a clone. That also covers the ecryptfs and
fuse passthrough variants. What 'F' promises is unchanged.
The stable tag is narrower than the Fixes tags on purpose. Before
sandboxed mounts this needed global root against the single instance
everyone shares, and the change doesn't apply to those trees anyway.
Note that SB_I_NODEV is implicitly raised for userns mounts but raise it
explicitly here as well.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260728-work-binfmt_misc-selfpin-v1-1-74df5daeca5b@kernel.org
Fixes: 948b701a60 ("binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for containers")
Fixes: 21ca59b365 ("binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.7+
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
load_misc_binary() raises bprm->have_execfd as soon as it sees the 'O'
(or 'C') flag. This happens well before it opens the interpreter. If
that open fails the flag stays set on the bprm. binfmt_misc is at the
head of the format list so an interpreter open failure that returns
-ENOEXEC lets the search fall through to a later format. This means it
runs the matched binary directly having never staged an interpreter. So
bprm->executable is NULL while have_execfd falsely claims a descriptor
is present.
Consequently, begin_new_exec() dereferences the missing executable:
would_dump(bprm, bprm->executable);
and NULL derefs. Had it not, the hand-off later in the same function
would have failed anyway. FD_ADD(0, bprm->executable) rejects a NULL
file with -ENOMEM. Both sites are past the point of no return so the
exec cannot be unwound either way.
This can be reached by unprivileged users as binfmt_misc can be mounted
in user namespaces. So a user can register an 'O' entry whose
interpreter lives on a FUSE mount, have the FUSE server fail the open
with -ENOEXEC and execute a native ELF file that matches the entry.
have_execfd only means anything alongside the executable it describes
which is not set until the interpreter has been opened and staged.
So lets raise it there, next to execfd_creds, which is already set at
that point. An open failure now leaves it clear, so the fallback format
derives credentials from the binary and emits no AT_EXECFD, as it would
for any native exec. The argv rewrite load_misc_binary() performs before
the open is still not undone. This means the binary sees the interpreter
path in argv[0] and its own path in argv[1] but that predates this
change and only became observable once the exec stopped faulting.
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260720-beglichen-kognitiv-organismus-5e1e55326c56@brauner
Fixes: bc2bf338d5 ("exec: Remove recursion from search_binary_handler")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
bm_entry_read() allocates temporary buffer using __get_free_page().
kmalloc() is a better API for such use and it also provides better
scalability and more debugging possibilities.
Replace use of __get_free_page() with kmalloc().
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260523-b4-fs-v1-16-275e36a83f0e@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Remove <linux/hex.h> from <linux/kernel.h> and update all users/callers of
hex.h interfaces to directly #include <linux/hex.h> as part of the process
of putting kernel.h on a diet.
Removing hex.h from kernel.h means that 36K C source files don't have to
pay the price of parsing hex.h for the roughly 120 C source files that
need it.
This change has been build-tested with allmodconfig on most ARCHes. Also,
all users/callers of <linux/hex.h> in the entire source tree have been
updated if needed (if not already #included).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215005206.2362276-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Yury Norov (NVIDIA) <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing those).
Reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually _stored_
anywhere. That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other
things, we have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended
to be an unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether
the reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if
that removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
kill_litter_super() as ->kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).
Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag (DCACHE_PERSISTENT)
marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set claims responsibility
for +1 in refcount.
The end result this series is aiming for:
* get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives that
would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear persistency flag.
* instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the remaining
"leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't been removed
prior to umount), have the regular shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip
DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries, dropping the corresponding
reference if it had been set. After that kill_litter_super() becomes
an equivalent of kill_anon_super().
Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many places
in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.
This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary pieces
have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting to the
meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions to it.
Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
that stuff is here.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro:
"Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to
pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing
those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually
_stored_ anywhere.
That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we
have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an
unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the
reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that
removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is
pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using
kill_litter_super() as ->kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special
cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self).
Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag
(DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set
claims responsibility for +1 in refcount.
The end result this series is aiming for:
- get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives
that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear
persistency flag.
- instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the
remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't
been removed prior to umount), have the regular
shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries,
dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that
kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super().
Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many
places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series.
This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary
pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting
to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions
to it.
Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of
that stuff is here"
* tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits)
d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry
kill securityfs_recursive_remove()
convert securityfs
get rid of kill_litter_super()
convert rust_binderfs
convert nfsctl
convert rpc_pipefs
convert hypfs
hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int
hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int
hypfs: don't pin dentries twice
convert gadgetfs
gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
convert functionfs
functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name()
functionfs: fix the open/removal races
functionfs: need to cancel ->reset_work in ->kill_sb()
functionfs: don't bother with ffs->ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}()
functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown
convert selinuxfs
...
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Merge tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements
adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and
eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems.
Features:
- Kernel Credential Guards
Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that
allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying
them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated
prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials
only to drop them again later.
The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the
temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in
callers.
- Generic Credential Guards
Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and
revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made
override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free.
- Prepare Credential Guards
Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of
preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current
credentials with them:
- prepare_creds()
- modify new creds
- override_creds()
- revert_creds()
- put_cred()
Cleanups:
- Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed
- Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials
- Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago
- coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner
credential handling
- coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
- coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
- coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
- sev-dev: use guard for path"
* tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
trace: use override credential guard
trace: use prepare credential guard
coredump: use override credential guard
coredump: use prepare credential guard
coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump()
coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const
coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const
coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup()
sev-dev: use override credential guards
sev-dev: use prepare credential guard
sev-dev: use guard for path
cred: add prepare credential guard
net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query()
cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()
act: use credential guards in acct_write_process()
smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write()
nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read()
erofs: use credential guards
...
removals are done with locked_recursive_removal(); switch creations to
simple_start_creating()/d_make_persistent()/simple_done_creating() and
take them to a helper (add_entry()), while we are at it - simpler control
flow that way.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
bm_register_write() opens an executable file using open_exec(), which
internally calls do_open_execat() and denies write access on the file to
avoid modification while it is being executed.
However, when an error occurs, bm_register_write() closes the file using
filp_close() directly. This does not restore the write permission, which
may cause subsequent write operations on the same file to fail.
Fix this by calling exe_file_allow_write_access() before filp_close() to
restore the write permission properly.
Fixes: e7850f4d84 ("binfmt_misc: fix possible deadlock in bm_register_write")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251105022923.1813587-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The lookup_one_len family of functions is (now) only used internally by
a filesystem on itself either
- in a context where permission checking is irrelevant such as by a
virtual filesystem populating itself, or xfs accessing its ORPHANAGE
or dquota accessing the quota file; or
- in a context where a permission check (MAY_EXEC on the parent) has just
been performed such as a network filesystem finding in "silly-rename"
file in the same directory. This is also the context after the
_parentat() functions where currently lookup_one_qstr_excl() is used.
So the permission check is pointless.
The name "one_len" is unhelpful in understanding the purpose of these
functions and should be changed. Most of the callers pass the len as
"strlen()" so using a qstr and QSTR() can simplify the code.
This patch renames these functions (include lookup_positive_unlocked()
which is part of the family despite the name) to have a name based on
"lookup_noperm". They are changed to receive a 'struct qstr' instead
of separate name and len. In a few cases the use of QSTR() results in a
new call to strlen().
try_lookup_noperm() takes a pointer to a qstr instead of the whole
qstr. This is consistent with d_hash_and_lookup() (which is nearly
identical) and useful for lookup_noperm_unlocked().
The new lookup_noperm_common() doesn't take a qstr yet. That will be
tidied up in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-5-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
- exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
(Tycho Andersen, Kees Cook)
- binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET)
- exec: move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman)
- exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman)
- binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan Carpenter)
- exec: Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates
- coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm"
- MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer
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Merge tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case (Tycho
Andersen, Kees Cook)
- binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET)
- move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman)
- remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman)
- Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates
- binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan
Carpenter)
- coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm"
- MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer
* tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems
selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm
exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated
exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading
exec: move warning of null argv to be next to the relevant code
fs: binfmt: Fix a typo
MAINTAINERS: exec: Mark Kees as maintainer
MAINTAINERS: exec: Add auxvec.h UAPI
coredump: Do not lock during 'comm' reporting
This reverts commit 2a010c4128.
Rui Ueyama <rui314@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm the creator and the maintainer of the mold linker
> (https://github.com/rui314/mold). Recently, we discovered that mold
> started causing process crashes in certain situations due to a change
> in the Linux kernel. Here are the details:
>
> - In general, overwriting an existing file is much faster than
> creating an empty file and writing to it on Linux, so mold attempts to
> reuse an existing executable file if it exists.
>
> - If a program is running, opening the executable file for writing
> previously failed with ETXTBSY. If that happens, mold falls back to
> creating a new file.
>
> - However, the Linux kernel recently changed the behavior so that
> writing to an executable file is now always permitted
> (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2a010c412853).
>
> That caused mold to write to an executable file even if there's a
> process running that file. Since changes to mmap'ed files are
> immediately visible to other processes, any processes running that
> file would almost certainly crash in a very mysterious way.
> Identifying the cause of these random crashes took us a few days.
>
> Rejecting writes to an executable file that is currently running is a
> well-known behavior, and Linux had operated that way for a very long
> time. So, I don’t believe relying on this behavior was our mistake;
> rather, I see this as a regression in the Linux kernel.
Quoting myself from commit 2a010c4128 ("fs: don't block i_writecount during exec")
> Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not
> completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's
> actually the case and not guess.
It seems we found out that someone is relying on this obscure behavior.
So revert the change.
Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/issues/1361
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4a2bc207-76be-4715-8e12-7fc45a76a125@leemhuis.info
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Back in 2021 we already discussed removing deny_write_access() for
executables. Back then I was hesistant because I thought that this might
cause issues in userspace. But even back then I had started taking some
notes on what could potentially depend on this and I didn't come up with
a lot so I've changed my mind and I would like to try this.
Here are some of the notes that I took:
(1) The deny_write_access() mechanism is causing really pointless issues
such as [1]. If a thread in a thread-group opens a file writable,
then writes some stuff, then closing the file descriptor and then
calling execve() they can fail the execve() with ETXTBUSY because
another thread in the thread-group could have concurrently called
fork(). Multi-threaded libraries such as go suffer from this.
(2) There are userspace attacks that rely on overwriting the binary of a
running process. These attacks are _mitigated_ but _not at all
prevented_ from ocurring by the deny_write_access() mechanism.
I'll go over some details. The clearest example of such attacks was
the attack against runC in CVE-2019-5736 (cf. [3]).
An attack could compromise the runC host binary from inside a
_privileged_ runC container. The malicious binary could then be used
to take over the host.
(It is crucial to note that this attack is _not_ possible with
unprivileged containers. IOW, the setup here is already insecure.)
The attack can be made when attaching to a running container or when
starting a container running a specially crafted image. For example,
when runC attaches to a container the attacker can trick it into
executing itself.
This could be done by replacing the target binary inside the
container with a custom binary pointing back at the runC binary
itself. As an example, if the target binary was /bin/bash, this
could be replaced with an executable script specifying the
interpreter path #!/proc/self/exe.
As such when /bin/bash is executed inside the container, instead the
target of /proc/self/exe will be executed. That magic link will
point to the runc binary on the host. The attacker can then proceed
to write to the target of /proc/self/exe to try and overwrite the
runC binary on the host.
However, this will not succeed because of deny_write_access(). Now,
one might think that this would prevent the attack but it doesn't.
To overcome this, the attacker has multiple ways:
* Open a file descriptor to /proc/self/exe using the O_PATH flag and
then proceed to reopen the binary as O_WRONLY through
/proc/self/fd/<nr> and try to write to it in a busy loop from a
separate process. Ultimately it will succeed when the runC binary
exits. After this the runC binary is compromised and can be used
to attack other containers or the host itself.
* Use a malicious shared library annotating a function in there with
the constructor attribute making the malicious function run as an
initializor. The malicious library will then open /proc/self/exe
for creating a new entry under /proc/self/fd/<nr>. It'll then call
exec to a) force runC to exit and b) hand the file descriptor off
to a program that then reopens /proc/self/fd/<nr> for writing
(which is now possible because runC has exited) and overwriting
that binary.
To sum up: the deny_write_access() mechanism doesn't prevent such
attacks in insecure setups. It just makes them minimally harder.
That's all.
The only way back then to prevent this is to create a temporary copy
of the calling binary itself when it starts or attaches to
containers. So what I did back then for LXC (and Aleksa for runC)
was to create an anonymous, in-memory file using the memfd_create()
system call and to copy itself into the temporary in-memory file,
which is then sealed to prevent further modifications. This sealed,
in-memory file copy is then executed instead of the original on-disk
binary.
Any compromising write operations from a privileged container to the
host binary will then write to the temporary in-memory binary and
not to the host binary on-disk, preserving the integrity of the host
binary. Also as the temporary, in-memory binary is sealed, writes to
this will also fail.
The point is that deny_write_access() is uselss to prevent these
attacks.
(3) Denying write access to an inode because it's currently used in an
exec path could easily be done on an LSM level. It might need an
additional hook but that should be about it.
(4) The MAP_DENYWRITE flag for mmap() has been deprecated a long time
ago so while we do protect the main executable the bigger portion of
the things you'd think need protecting such as the shared libraries
aren't. IOW, we let anyone happily overwrite shared libraries.
(5) We removed all remaining uses of VM_DENYWRITE in [2]. That means:
(5.1) We removed the legacy uselib() protection for preventing
overwriting of shared libraries. Nobody cared in 3 years.
(5.2) We allow write access to the elf interpreter after exec
completed treating it on a par with shared libraries.
Yes, someone in userspace could potentially be relying on this. It's not
completely out of the realm of possibility but let's find out if that's
actually the case and not guess.
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22315 [1]
Link: 49624efa65 ("Merge tag 'denywrite-for-5.15' of git://github.com/davidhildenbrand/linux") [2]
Link: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/breaking-docker-via-runc-explaining-cve-2019-5736 [3]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/866493
Link: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22220
Link: 5bf8c0cf09/src/cmd/go/internal/work/buildid.go (L724)
Link: 5bf8c0cf09/src/cmd/go/internal/work/exec.go (L1493)
Link: 5bf8c0cf09/src/cmd/go/internal/script/cmds.go (L457)
Link: 5bf8c0cf09/src/cmd/go/internal/test/test.go (L1557)
Link: 5bf8c0cf09/src/os/exec/lp_linux_test.go (L61)
Link: https://github.com/buildkite/agent/pull/2736
Link: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/114554
Link: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8068370
Link: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/58964
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240531-vfs-i_writecount-v1-1-a17bea7ee36b@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Fix the 'make W=1' warnings:
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in fs/binfmt_misc.o
WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in fs/binfmt_script.o
Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson <quic_jjohnson@quicinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240527-md-fs-binfmt-v1-1-f9dc1745cb67@quicinc.com
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
- Support non-BSS ELF segments with 0 filesz (Eric W. Biederman, Kees Cook)
- Enable namespaced binfmt_misc (Christian Brauner)
- Remove struct tag 'dynamic' from ELF UAPI (Alejandro Colomar)
- Clean up binfmt_elf_fdpic debug output (Greg Ungerer)
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Merge tag 'execve-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:
- Support non-BSS ELF segments with zero filesz
Eric Biederman and I refactored ELF segment loading to handle the
case where a segment has a smaller filesz than memsz. Traditionally
linkers only did this for .bss and it was always the last segment. As
a result, the kernel only handled this case when it was the last
segment. We've had two recent cases where linkers were trying to use
these kinds of segments for other reasons, and the were in the middle
of the segment list. There was no good reason for the kernel not to
support this, and the refactor actually ends up making things more
readable too.
- Enable namespaced binfmt_misc
Christian Brauner has made it possible to use binfmt_misc with mount
namespaces. This means some traditionally root-only interfaces (for
adding/removing formats) are now more exposed (but believed to be
safe).
- Remove struct tag 'dynamic' from ELF UAPI
Alejandro Colomar noticed that the ELF UAPI has been polluting the
struct namespace with an unused and overly generic tag named
"dynamic" for no discernible reason for many many years. After
double-checking various distro source repositories, it has been
removed.
- Clean up binfmt_elf_fdpic debug output (Greg Ungerer)
* tag 'execve-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts
binfmt_misc: cleanup on filesystem umount
binfmt_elf_fdpic: clean up debug warnings
mm: Remove unused vm_brk()
binfmt_elf: Only report padzero() errors when PROT_WRITE
binfmt_elf: Use elf_load() for library
binfmt_elf: Use elf_load() for interpreter
binfmt_elf: elf_bss no longer used by load_elf_binary()
binfmt_elf: Support segments with 0 filesz and misaligned starts
elf, uapi: Remove struct tag 'dynamic'
Enable unprivileged sandboxes to create their own binfmt_misc mounts.
This is based on Laurent's work in [1] but has been significantly
reworked to fix various issues we identified in earlier versions.
While binfmt_misc can currently only be mounted in the initial user
namespace, binary types registered in this binfmt_misc instance are
available to all sandboxes (Either by having them installed in the
sandbox or by registering the binary type with the F flag causing the
interpreter to be opened right away). So binfmt_misc binary types are
already delegated to sandboxes implicitly.
However, while a sandbox has access to all registered binary types in
binfmt_misc a sandbox cannot currently register its own binary types
in binfmt_misc. This has prevented various use-cases some of which were
already outlined in [1] but we have a range of issues associated with
this (cf. [3]-[5] below which are just a small sample).
Extend binfmt_misc to be mountable in non-initial user namespaces.
Similar to other filesystem such as nfsd, mqueue, and sunrpc we use
keyed superblock management. The key determines whether we need to
create a new superblock or can reuse an already existing one. We use the
user namespace of the mount as key. This means a new binfmt_misc
superblock is created once per user namespace creation. Subsequent
mounts of binfmt_misc in the same user namespace will mount the same
binfmt_misc instance. We explicitly do not create a new binfmt_misc
superblock on every binfmt_misc mount as the semantics for
load_misc_binary() line up with the keying model. This also allows us to
retrieve the relevant binfmt_misc instance based on the caller's user
namespace which can be done in a simple (bounded to 32 levels) loop.
Similar to the current binfmt_misc semantics allowing access to the
binary types in the initial binfmt_misc instance we do allow sandboxes
access to their parent's binfmt_misc mounts if they do not have created
a separate binfmt_misc instance.
Overall, this will unblock the use-cases mentioned below and in general
will also allow to support and harden execution of another
architecture's binaries in tight sandboxes. For instance, using the
unshare binary it possible to start a chroot of another architecture and
configure the binfmt_misc interpreter without being root to run the
binaries in this chroot and without requiring the host to modify its
binary type handlers.
Henning had already posted a few experiments in the cover letter at [1].
But here's an additional example where an unprivileged container
registers qemu-user-static binary handlers for various binary types in
its separate binfmt_misc mount and is then seamlessly able to start
containers with a different architecture without affecting the host:
root [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers f1
1000000 \_ /sbin/init
1000000 \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1000000 \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1000100 \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
1000101 \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
1000000 \_ /usr/sbin/cron -f
1000103 \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1000000 \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1000104 \_ /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1000000 \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1000000 \_ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1000107 \_ dnsmasq --conf-file=/dev/null -u lxc-dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/lxc/dnsmasq.pid --liste
1000000 \_ [lxc monitor] /var/lib/lxc f1-s390x
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/init
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/cron -f
1100103 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-ac
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1100104 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/0 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/1 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/2 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/3 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000 \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216091220.465626-1-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/binfmt-misc-permission-denied
[3]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-binfmt-support-for-qemu-static-interpreters
[4]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/3-1-0-binfmt-support-service-in-unprivileged-guest-requires-write-access-on-hosts-proc-sys-fs-binfmt-misc
[5]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/qemu-user-static-not-working-4-11
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu (origin)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-2-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
/* v2 */
- Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>:
- Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace triggered allocations when a
new binary type handler is registered.
- Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>:
- Switch authorship to me. I refused to do that earlier even though
Laurent said I should do so because I think it's genuinely bad form.
But by now I have changed so many things that it'd be unfair to
blame Laurent for any potential bugs in here.
- Add more comments that explain what's going on.
- Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
doing to make the code easier to understand.
- In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
guarantees to the user.
Currently, registering a new binary type pins the binfmt_misc
filesystem. Specifically, this means that as long as there is at least
one binary type registered the binfmt_misc filesystem survives all
umounts, i.e. the superblock is not destroyed. Meaning that a umount
followed by another mount will end up with the same superblock and the
same binary type handlers. This is a behavior we tend to discourage for
any new filesystems (apart from a few special filesystems such as e.g.
configfs or debugfs). A umount operation without the filesystem being
pinned - by e.g. someone holding a file descriptor to an open file -
should usually result in the destruction of the superblock and all
associated resources. This makes introspection easier and leads to
clearly defined, simple and clean semantics. An administrator can rely
on the fact that a umount will guarantee a clean slate making it
possible to reinitialize a filesystem. Right now all binary types would
need to be explicitly deleted before that can happen.
This allows us to remove the heavy-handed calls to simple_pin_fs() and
simple_release_fs() when creating and deleting binary types. This in
turn allows us to replace the current brittle pinning mechanism abusing
dget() which has caused a range of bugs judging from prior fixes in [2]
and [3]. The additional dget() in load_misc_binary() pins the dentry but
only does so for the sake to prevent ->evict_inode() from freeing the
node when a user removes the binary type and kill_node() is run. Which
would mean ->interpreter and ->interp_file would be freed causing a UAF.
This isn't really nicely documented nor is it very clean because it
relies on simple_pin_fs() pinning the filesystem as long as at least one
binary type exists. Otherwise it would cause load_misc_binary() to hold
on to a dentry belonging to a superblock that has been shutdown.
Replace that implicit pinning with a clean and simple per-node refcount
and get rid of the ugly dget() pinning. A similar mechanism exists for
e.g. binderfs (cf. [4]). All the cleanup work can now be done in
->evict_inode().
In a follow-up patch we will make it possible to use binfmt_misc in
sandboxes. We will use the cleaner semantics where a umount for the
filesystem will cause the superblock and all resources to be
deallocated. In preparation for this apply the same semantics to the
initial binfmt_misc mount. Note, that this is a user-visible change and
as such a uapi change but one that we can reasonably risk. We've
discussed this in earlier versions of this patchset (cf. [1]).
The main user and provider of binfmt_misc is systemd. Systemd provides
binfmt_misc via autofs since it is configurable as a kernel module and
is used by a few exotic packages and users. As such a binfmt_misc mount
is triggered when /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is accessed and is only
provided on demand. Other autofs on demand filesystems include EFI ESP
which systemd umounts if the mountpoint stays idle for a certain amount
of time. This doesn't apply to the binfmt_misc autofs mount which isn't
touched once it is mounted meaning this change can't accidently wipe
binary type handlers without someone having explicitly unmounted
binfmt_misc. After speaking to systemd folks they don't expect this
change to affect them.
In line with our general policy, if we see a regression for systemd or
other users with this change we will switch back to the old behavior for
the initial binfmt_misc mount and have binary types pin the filesystem
again. But while we touch this code let's take the chance and let's
improve on the status quo.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: commit 43a4f26190 ("exec: binfmt_misc: fix race between load_misc_binary() and kill_node()"
[3]: commit 83f918274e ("exec: binfmt_misc: shift filp_close(interp_file) from kill_node() to bm_evict_inode()")
[4]: commit f0fe2c0f05 ("binder: prevent UAF for binderfs devices II")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-1-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>
Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
/* v2 */
- Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>:
- Add more comments that explain what's going on.
- Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
doing to make the code easier to understand.
- In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
guarantees to the user.
In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-23-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
UBSAN reported a shift-out-of-bounds warning:
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xcf lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue+0xa/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:151
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x208 lib/ubsan.c:322
check_special_flags fs/binfmt_misc.c:241 [inline]
create_entry fs/binfmt_misc.c:456 [inline]
bm_register_write+0x9d3/0xa20 fs/binfmt_misc.c:654
vfs_write+0x11e/0x580 fs/read_write.c:582
ksys_write+0xcf/0x120 fs/read_write.c:637
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x4194e1
Since the type of Node's flags is unsigned long, we should define these
macros with same type too.
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221102025123.1117184-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Commit 3ba442d533 ("fs: move binfmt_misc sysctl to its own file") did
not go unnoticed, binfmt-support stopped to work on my Debian system
since v5.17-rc2 (did not check with -rc1).
The existance of the /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is a precondition for
attempting to mount the binfmt_misc fs, which in turn triggers the
autoload of the binfmt_misc module. Without it, no module is loaded and
no binfmt is available at boot.
Building as built-in or manually loading the module and mounting the fs
works fine, it's therefore only a matter of interaction with user-space.
I could try to improve the Debian systemd configuration but I can't say
anything about the other distributions.
This patch restores a working system right after boot.
Fixes: 3ba442d533 ("fs: move binfmt_misc sysctl to its own file")
Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli@linux.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tong Zhang <ztong0001@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
