From ca05a99a54db1db5bca72eccb5866d2a86f8517f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Andrew G. Morgan" Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:05:17 -0700 Subject: capabilities: remain source compatible with 32-bit raw legacy capability support. Source code out there hard-codes a notion of what the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION #define means in terms of the semantics of the raw capability system calls capget() and capset(). Its unfortunate, but true. Since the confusing header file has been in a released kernel, there is software that is erroneously using 64-bit capabilities with the semantics of 32-bit compatibilities. These recently compiled programs may suffer corruption of their memory when sys_getcap() overwrites more memory than they are coded to expect, and the raising of added capabilities when using sys_capset(). As such, this patch does a number of things to clean up the situation for all. It 1. forces the _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION define to always retain its legacy value. 2. adopts a new #define strategy for the kernel's internal implementation of the preferred magic. 3. deprecates v2 capability magic in favor of a new (v3) magic number. The functionality of v3 is entirely equivalent to v2, the only difference being that the v2 magic causes the kernel to log a "deprecated" warning so the admin can find applications that may be using v2 inappropriately. [User space code continues to be encouraged to use the libcap API which protects the application from details like this. libcap-2.10 is the first to support v3 capabilities.] Fixes issue reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447518. Thanks to Bojan Smojver for the report. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/depreciate/deprecate/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: be robust about put_user size] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Cc: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Bojan Smojver Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- kernel/capability.c | 111 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/capability.c b/kernel/capability.c index 39e8193b41e..cfbe4429948 100644 --- a/kernel/capability.c +++ b/kernel/capability.c @@ -52,6 +52,69 @@ static void warn_legacy_capability_use(void) } } +/* + * Version 2 capabilities worked fine, but the linux/capability.h file + * that accompanied their introduction encouraged their use without + * the necessary user-space source code changes. As such, we have + * created a version 3 with equivalent functionality to version 2, but + * with a header change to protect legacy source code from using + * version 2 when it wanted to use version 1. If your system has code + * that trips the following warning, it is using version 2 specific + * capabilities and may be doing so insecurely. + * + * The remedy is to either upgrade your version of libcap (to 2.10+, + * if the application is linked against it), or recompile your + * application with modern kernel headers and this warning will go + * away. + */ + +static void warn_deprecated_v2(void) +{ + static int warned; + + if (!warned) { + char name[sizeof(current->comm)]; + + printk(KERN_INFO "warning: `%s' uses deprecated v2" + " capabilities in a way that may be insecure.\n", + get_task_comm(name, current)); + warned = 1; + } +} + +/* + * Version check. Return the number of u32s in each capability flag + * array, or a negative value on error. + */ +static int cap_validate_magic(cap_user_header_t header, unsigned *tocopy) +{ + __u32 version; + + if (get_user(version, &header->version)) + return -EFAULT; + + switch (version) { + case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1: + warn_legacy_capability_use(); + *tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1; + break; + case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2: + warn_deprecated_v2(); + /* + * fall through - v3 is otherwise equivalent to v2. + */ + case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_3: + *tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_3; + break; + default: + if (put_user((u32)_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version)) + return -EFAULT; + return -EINVAL; + } + + return 0; +} + /* * For sys_getproccap() and sys_setproccap(), any of the three * capability set pointers may be NULL -- indicating that that set is @@ -71,27 +134,13 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capget(cap_user_header_t header, cap_user_data_t dataptr) { int ret = 0; pid_t pid; - __u32 version; struct task_struct *target; unsigned tocopy; kernel_cap_t pE, pI, pP; - if (get_user(version, &header->version)) - return -EFAULT; - - switch (version) { - case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1: - warn_legacy_capability_use(); - tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1; - break; - case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2: - tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2; - break; - default: - if (put_user(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version)) - return -EFAULT; - return -EINVAL; - } + ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy); + if (ret != 0) + return ret; if (get_user(pid, &header->pid)) return -EFAULT; @@ -118,7 +167,7 @@ out: spin_unlock(&task_capability_lock); if (!ret) { - struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S]; + struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S]; unsigned i; for (i = 0; i < tocopy; i++) { @@ -128,7 +177,7 @@ out: } /* - * Note, in the case, tocopy < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S, + * Note, in the case, tocopy < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S, * we silently drop the upper capabilities here. This * has the effect of making older libcap * implementations implicitly drop upper capability @@ -240,30 +289,16 @@ static inline int cap_set_all(kernel_cap_t *effective, */ asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data) { - struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S]; + struct __user_cap_data_struct kdata[_KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S]; unsigned i, tocopy; kernel_cap_t inheritable, permitted, effective; - __u32 version; struct task_struct *target; int ret; pid_t pid; - if (get_user(version, &header->version)) - return -EFAULT; - - switch (version) { - case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_1: - warn_legacy_capability_use(); - tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_1; - break; - case _LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION_2: - tocopy = _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S_2; - break; - default: - if (put_user(_LINUX_CAPABILITY_VERSION, &header->version)) - return -EFAULT; - return -EINVAL; - } + ret = cap_validate_magic(header, &tocopy); + if (ret != 0) + return ret; if (get_user(pid, &header->pid)) return -EFAULT; @@ -281,7 +316,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_capset(cap_user_header_t header, const cap_user_data_t data) permitted.cap[i] = kdata[i].permitted; inheritable.cap[i] = kdata[i].inheritable; } - while (i < _LINUX_CAPABILITY_U32S) { + while (i < _KERNEL_CAPABILITY_U32S) { effective.cap[i] = 0; permitted.cap[i] = 0; inheritable.cap[i] = 0; -- cgit v1.2.3