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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 13:57:09 -0800
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Subject: Re: [RFC] namei: prevent sgid-hardlinks for unmapped gids
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
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        Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
        "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
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On Nov 19, 2015 12:11 PM, "Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:08 AM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > On Sat 07-11-15 21:02:06, Ted Tso wrote:
> >> On Fri, Nov 06, 2015 at 09:05:57PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> > >>>> They're certainly not used early enough -- we need to remove suid when
> >> > >>>> the page becomes writable via mmap (wp_page_shared), not when
> >> > >>>> writeback happens, or at least not only when writeback happens.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>> Well, I'm shy about the change there. For example, we don't strip in
> >> > >>> on open(RDWR), just on write().
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I take it back. Hooking wp_page_shared looks expensive. :) Maybe we do
> >> > >> need to hook the mmap?
> >> > >
> >> > > But file_update_time already pokes at the same (or nearby) cachelines,
> >> > > I think -- why would it be expensive?  The whole thing could be
> >> > > guarded by if (unlikely(is setuid)), right?
> >> >
> >> > Yeah, true. I added file_remove_privs calls near all the
> >> > file_update_time calls, to no effect. Added to wp_page_shared too,
> >> > nothing. Hmmm.
> >>
> >> Why not put the the should_remove_suid() call in
> >> filemap_page_mkwrite(), or maybe do_page_mkwrite()?
> >
> > page_mkwrite() callbacks are IMHO the right place for this check (and
> > change).  Just next to file_update_time() call. You get proper filesystem
>
> Should file_update_time() just be modified to include
> file_remove_privs()? They seem to regularly go together.
>

No, I think.  The current file_update_time is slow and
POSIX-noncompliant, and I have old patches I need to dig up to fix it.

--Andy
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