Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932995AbcJUBYq (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:24:46 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:33800 "EHLO mail-pf0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932719AbcJUBYn (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2016 21:24:43 -0400 From: John Stultz To: lkml Cc: John Stultz , Tejun Heo , Li Zefan , Jonathan Corbet , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Android Kernel Team , Rom Lemarchand , Colin Cross , Dmitry Shmidt , Todd Kjos , Christian Poetzsch , Amit Pundir , Dmitry Torokhov , Kees Cook , "Serge E . Hallyn" , linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC][PATCH v3] cgroup: Use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:24:39 -0700 Message-Id: <1477013079-23692-1-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2895 Lines: 72 This patch adds logic to allows a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups if they have CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. In Android (where this feature originated), the ActivityManager tracks various application states (TOP_APP, FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND, SYSTEM, etc), and then as applications change states, the SchedPolicy logic will migrate the application tasks between different cgroups used to control the different application states (for example, there is a background cpuset cgroup which can limit background tasks to stay on one low-power cpu, and the bg_non_interactive cpuctrl cgroup can then further limit those background tasks to a small percentage of that one cpu's cpu time). However, for security reasons, Android doesn't want to make the system_server (the process that runs the ActivityManager and SchedPolicy logic), run as root. So in the Android common.git kernel, they have some logic to allow cgroups to loosen their permissions so CAP_SYS_NICE tasks can migrate other tasks between cgroups. I feel the approach taken there overloads CAP_SYS_NICE a bit much, and is maybe more complicated then needed. So this patch, as suggested by Michael Kerrisk, simply adds a check for CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. I've tested this with AOSP master, and this seems to work well as Zygote and system_server already use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. I've also submitted patches against the android-4.4 kernel to change it to use CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, and the Android developers have seemed ok with this change. Thouhts and feedback would be appreciated! Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: Android Kernel Team Cc: Rom Lemarchand Cc: Colin Cross Cc: Dmitry Shmidt Cc: Todd Kjos Cc: Christian Poetzsch Cc: Amit Pundir Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: John Stultz --- v2: Renamed to just CAP_CGROUP_MIGRATE as reccomended by Tejun v3: Switched to just using CAP_SYS_RESOURCE as suggested by Michael --- kernel/cgroup.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 09f84d2..866059a 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -2857,7 +2857,7 @@ static int cgroup_procs_write_permission(struct task_struct *task, if (!uid_eq(cred->euid, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->uid) && !uid_eq(cred->euid, tcred->suid) && - !ns_capable(tcred->user_ns, CAP_CGROUP_MIGRATE)) + !ns_capable(tcred->user_ns, CAP_SYS_RESOURCE)) ret = -EACCES; if (!ret && cgroup_on_dfl(dst_cgrp)) { -- 2.7.4