linux-toradex.git/security/commoncap.c, branch v3.2-rc5

capabilities: initialize has_cap

2011-08-15T23:20:45+00:00

Initialize has_cap in cap_bprm_set_creds()

Reported-by: Andrew G. Morgan 
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

capabilities: do not grant full privs for setuid w/ file caps + no effective caps

2011-08-12T05:06:57+00:00

A task (when !SECURE_NOROOT) which executes a setuid-root binary will
obtain root privileges while executing that binary.  If the binary also
has effective capabilities set, then only those capabilities will be
granted.  The rationale is that the same binary can carry both setuid-root
and the minimal file capability set, so that on a filesystem not
supporting file caps the binary can still be executed with privilege,
while on a filesystem supporting file caps it will run with minimal
privilege.

This special case currently does NOT happen if there are file capabilities
but no effective capabilities.  Since capability-aware programs can very
well start with empty pE but populated pP and move those caps to pE when
needed.  In other words, if the file has file capabilities but NOT
effective capabilities, then we should do the same thing as if there
were file capabilities, and not grant full root privileges.

This patchset does that.

(Changelog by Serge Hallyn).

Signed-off-by: Zhi Li 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

capabilities: do not special case exec of init

2011-04-04T00:31:06+00:00

When the global init task is exec'd we have special case logic to make sure
the pE is not reduced.  There is no reason for this.  If init wants to drop
it's pE is should be allowed to do so.  Remove this special logic.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

userns: allow ptrace from non-init user namespaces

2011-03-24T02:47:05+00:00

ptrace is allowed to tasks in the same user namespace according to the
usual rules (i.e.  the same rules as for two tasks in the init user
namespace).  ptrace is also allowed to a user namespace to which the
current task the has CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability.

Changelog:
	Dec 31: Address feedback by Eric:
		. Correct ptrace uid check
		. Rename may_ptrace_ns to ptrace_capable
		. Also fix the cap_ptrace checks.
	Jan  1: Use const cred struct
	Jan 11: use task_ns_capable() in place of ptrace_capable().
	Feb 23: same_or_ancestore_user_ns() was not an appropriate
		check to constrain cap_issubset.  Rather, cap_issubset()
		only is meaningful when both capsets are in the same
		user_ns.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

userns: security: make capabilities relative to the user namespace

2011-03-24T02:47:02+00:00

- Introduce ns_capable to test for a capability in a non-default
  user namespace.
- Teach cap_capable to handle capabilities in a non-default
  user namespace.

The motivation is to get to the unprivileged creation of new
namespaces.  It looks like this gets us 90% of the way there, with
only potential uid confusion issues left.

I still need to handle getting all caps after creation but otherwise I
think I have a good starter patch that achieves all of your goals.

Changelog:
	11/05/2010: [serge] add apparmor
	12/14/2010: [serge] fix capabilities to created user namespaces
	Without this, if user serge creates a user_ns, he won't have
	capabilities to the user_ns he created.  THis is because we
	were first checking whether his effective caps had the caps
	he needed and returning -EPERM if not, and THEN checking whether
	he was the creator.  Reverse those checks.
	12/16/2010: [serge] security_real_capable needs ns argument in !security case
	01/11/2011: [serge] add task_ns_capable helper
	01/11/2011: [serge] add nsown_capable() helper per Bastian Blank suggestion
	02/16/2011: [serge] fix a logic bug: the root user is always creator of
		    init_user_ns, but should not always have capabilities to
		    it!  Fix the check in cap_capable().
	02/21/2011: Add the required user_ns parameter to security_capable,
		    fixing a compile failure.
	02/23/2011: Convert some macros to functions as per akpm comments.  Some
		    couldn't be converted because we can't easily forward-declare
		    them (they are inline if !SECURITY, extern if SECURITY).  Add
		    a current_user_ns function so we can use it in capability.h
		    without #including cred.h.  Move all forward declarations
		    together to the top of the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section, and use
		    kernel-doc format.
	02/23/2011: Per dhowells, clean up comment in cap_capable().
	02/23/2011: Per akpm, remove unreachable 'return -EPERM' in cap_capable.

(Original written and signed off by Eric;  latest, modified version
acked by him)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export current_user_ns() for ecryptfs]
[serge.hallyn@canonical.com: remove unneeded extra argument in selinux's task_has_capability]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Acked-by: David Howells 
Cc: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2011-03-16T23:29:25+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1480 commits)
  bonding: enable netpoll without checking link status
  xfrm: Refcount destination entry on xfrm_lookup
  net: introduce rx_handler results and logic around that
  bonding: get rid of IFF_SLAVE_INACTIVE netdev->priv_flag
  bonding: wrap slave state work
  net: get rid of multiple bond-related netdevice->priv_flags
  bonding: register slave pointer for rx_handler
  be2net: Bump up the version number
  be2net: Copyright notice change. Update to Emulex instead of ServerEngines
  e1000e: fix kconfig for crc32 dependency
  netfilter ebtables: fix xt_AUDIT to work with ebtables
  xen network backend driver
  bonding: Improve syslog message at device creation time
  bonding: Call netif_carrier_off after register_netdevice
  bonding: Incorrect TX queue offset
  net_sched: fix ip_tos2prio
  xfrm: fix __xfrm_route_forward()
  be2net: Fix UDP packet detected status in RX compl
  Phonet: fix aligned-mode pipe socket buffer header reserve
  netxen: support for GbE port settings
  ...

Fix up conflicts in drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcmsmac/wl_mac80211.c
with the staging updates.

netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms

2011-03-03T21:32:07+00:00

Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
the current process.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy 
Reviewed-by: James Morris 
[chrisw: update to include pohmelfs and uvesafb]
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

time: Correct the settime parameters

2011-02-02T14:28:11+00:00

Both settimeofday() and clock_settime() promise with a 'const'
attribute not to alter the arguments passed in. This patch adds the
missing 'const' attribute into the various kernel functions
implementing these calls.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran 
Acked-by: John Stultz 
LKML-Reference: <20110201134417.545698637@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fix build failure

2010-11-15T23:40:01+00:00

The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build
failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n.  This is because the capabilities code
which used the new option was built even though the variable in question
didn't exist.

The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the
LSM and into the caller.  All (known) LSMs should have been calling the
capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization
better to eliminate the hook altogether.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog

2010-11-12T15:55:32+00:00

The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Eugene Teo 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds