linux/drivers/block
Ondrej Mosnacek 924335412d nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg()
[ Upstream commit 81ccca3121 ]

sock_{send,recv}msg() internally calls security_socket_{send,recv}msg(),
which does security checks (e.g. SELinux) for socket access against the
current task. However, _sock_xmit() in drivers/block/nbd.c may be called
indirectly from a userspace syscall, where the NBD socket access would
be incorrectly checked against the calling userspace task (which simply
tries to read/write a file that happens to reside on an NBD device).

To fix this, temporarily override creds to kernel ones before calling
the sock_*() functions. This allows the security modules to recognize
this as internal access by the kernel, which will normally be allowed.

A way to trigger the issue is to do the following (on a system with
SELinux set to enforcing):

    ### Create nbd device:
    truncate -s 256M /tmp/testfile
    nbd-server localhost:10809 /tmp/testfile

    ### Connect to the nbd server:
    nbd-client localhost

    ### Create mdraid array
    mdadm --create -l 1 -n 2 /dev/md/testarray /dev/nbd0 missing

After these steps, assuming the SELinux policy doesn't allow the
unexpected access pattern, errors will be visible on the kernel console:

[  142.204243] nbd0: detected capacity change from 0 to 524288
[  165.189967] md: async del_gendisk mode will be removed in future, please upgrade to mdadm-4.5+
[  165.252299] md/raid1:md127: active with 1 out of 2 mirrors
[  165.252725] md127: detected capacity change from 0 to 522240
[  165.255434] block nbd0: Send control failed (result -13)
[  165.255718] block nbd0: Request send failed, requeueing
[  165.256006] block nbd0: Dead connection, failed to find a fallback
[  165.256041] block nbd0: Receive control failed (result -32)
[  165.256423] block nbd0: shutting down sockets
[  165.257196] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.257736] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.258263] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.259376] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.259920] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.260628] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.261661] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
[  165.262108] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.262769] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.263697] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.264412] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.265412] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.265872] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.266378] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 2048 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.267168] Buffer I/O error on dev md127, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.267564]  md127: unable to read partition table
[  165.269581] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.269960] Buffer I/O error on dev nbd0, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.270316] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.270913] Buffer I/O error on dev nbd0, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.271253] I/O error, dev nbd0, sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2
[  165.271809] Buffer I/O error on dev nbd0, logical block 0, async page read
[  165.272074] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
[  165.272360]  nbd0: unable to read partition table
[  165.289004] ldm_validate_partition_table(): Disk read failed.
[  165.289614]  nbd0: unable to read partition table

The corresponding SELinux denial on Fedora/RHEL will look like this
(assuming it's not silenced):
type=AVC msg=audit(1758104872.510:116): avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=1908 comm="mdadm" laddr=::1 lport=32772 faddr=::1 fport=10809 scontext=system_u:system_r:mdadm_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tcontext=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 tclass=tcp_socket permissive=0

The respective backtrace looks like this:
@security[mdadm, -13,
        handshake_exit+221615650
        handshake_exit+221615650
        handshake_exit+221616465
        security_socket_sendmsg+5
        sock_sendmsg+106
        handshake_exit+221616150
        sock_sendmsg+5
        __sock_xmit+162
        nbd_send_cmd+597
        nbd_handle_cmd+377
        nbd_queue_rq+63
        blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+653
        __blk_mq_do_dispatch_sched+184
        __blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+333
        blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+38
        blk_mq_run_hw_queue+239
        blk_mq_dispatch_plug_list+382
        blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+55
        __blk_flush_plug+241
        __submit_bio+353
        submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+364
        submit_bio_wait+84
        __blkdev_direct_IO_simple+232
        blkdev_read_iter+162
        vfs_read+591
        ksys_read+95
        do_syscall_64+92
        entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+120
]: 1

The issue has started to appear since commit 060406c61c ("block: add
plug while submitting IO").

Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348878
Fixes: 060406c61c ("block: add plug while submitting IO")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2025-10-29 14:08:59 +01:00
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aoe aoe: defer rexmit timer downdev work to workqueue 2025-07-10 16:05:07 +02:00
drbd drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts 2025-08-20 18:30:20 +02:00
mtip32xx [tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out 2024-09-27 08:18:43 -07:00
null_blk null_blk: Fix the description of the cache_size module argument 2025-10-15 11:59:59 +02:00
rnbd block/rnbd-srv: Add sanity check and remove redundant assignment 2024-08-28 08:50:35 -06:00
xen-blkback xen/blkback: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-07-10 00:21:18 -06:00
zram zram: fix potential UAF of zram table 2025-01-23 17:22:58 +01:00
amiflop.c Merge branch 'for-6.11/block-limits' into for-6.11/block 2024-06-19 08:14:49 -06:00
ataflop.c Merge branch 'for-6.11/block-limits' into for-6.11/block 2024-06-19 08:14:49 -06:00
brd.c brd: fix discard end sector 2025-06-19 15:31:28 +02:00
floppy.c floppy: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-07-10 00:22:03 -06:00
Kconfig rust: block: add rnull, Rust null_blk implementation 2024-06-14 07:45:04 -06:00
loop.c loop: fix backing file reference leak on validation error 2025-10-19 16:33:51 +02:00
Makefile rust: block: add rnull, Rust null_blk implementation 2024-06-14 07:45:04 -06:00
n64cart.c block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits 2024-06-19 07:58:28 -06:00
nbd.c nbd: override creds to kernel when calling sock_{send,recv}msg() 2025-10-29 14:08:59 +01:00
pktcdvd.c move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h 2024-10-02 17:23:23 -04:00
ps3disk.c ps3disk: Do not use dev->bounce_size before it is set 2025-02-08 09:56:51 +01:00
ps3vram.c block: pass a queue_limits argument to blk_alloc_disk 2024-02-19 16:58:23 -07:00
rbd.c A small patchset to address bogus I/O errors and ultimately an 2024-07-26 10:34:42 -07:00
rbd_types.h libceph, rbd: replace zero-length array with flexible-array 2020-06-01 13:22:53 +02:00
rnull.rs rust: treewide: switch to our kernel Box type 2025-03-13 13:01:44 +01:00
sunvdc.c sunvdc: Balance device refcount in vdc_port_mpgroup_check 2025-08-20 18:30:15 +02:00
swim.c block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits 2024-06-19 07:58:28 -06:00
swim3.c block: move the nonrot flag to queue_limits 2024-06-19 07:58:28 -06:00
swim_asm.S treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
ublk_drv.c ublk: use vmalloc for ublk_device's __queues 2025-08-15 12:13:32 +02:00
virtio_blk.c block: add a queue_limits_commit_update_frozen helper 2025-09-09 18:58:24 +02:00
xen-blkfront.c xen-blkfront: fix sector_size propagation to the block layer 2024-07-02 08:58:12 -06:00
z2ram.c z2ram: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro 2024-06-19 07:54:00 -06:00