Quoting Eric Paris (epa...@redhat.com):
> This is effectively a revert of 7b9a7ec565505699f503b4fcf61500dceb36e744
> plus fixing it a different way...
>
> We found, when trying to run an application from an application which
> had dropped privs that the kernel does security checks on undefined
> capability bits. This was ESPECIALLY difficult to debug as those
> undefined bits are hidden from /proc/$PID/status.
>
> Consider a root application which drops all capabilities from ALL 4
> capability sets. We assume, since the application is going to set
> eff/perm/inh from an array that it will clear not only the defined caps
> less than CAP_LAST_CAP, but also the higher 28ish bits which are
> undefined future capabilities.
>
> The BSET gets cleared differently. Instead it is cleared one bit at a
> time. The problem here is that in security/commoncap.c::cap_task_prctl()
> we actually check the validity of a capability being read. So any task
> which attempts to 'read all things set in bset' followed by 'unset all
> things set in bset' will not even attempt to unset the undefined bits
> higher than CAP_LAST_CAP.
>
> So the 'parent' will look something like:
> CapInh: 0000000000000000
> CapPrm: 0000000000000000
> CapEff: 0000000000000000
> CapBnd: ffffffc000000000
>
> All of this 'should' be fine. Given that these are undefined bits that
> aren't supposed to have anything to do with permissions. But they do...
>
> So lets now consider a task which cleared the eff/perm/inh completely
> and cleared all of the valid caps in the bset (but not the invalid caps
> it couldn't read out of the kernel). We know that this is exactly what
> the libcap-ng library does and what the go capabilities library does.
> They both leave you in that above situation if you try to clear all of
> you capapabilities from all 4 sets. If that root task calls execve()
> the child task will pick up all caps not blocked by the bset. The bset
> however does not block bits higher than CAP_LAST_CAP. So now the child
> task has bits in eff which are not in the parent. These are
> 'meaningless' undefined bits, but still bits which the parent doesn't
> have.
>
> The problem is now in cred_cap_issubset() (or any operation which does a
> subset test) as the child, while a subset for valid cap bits, is not a
> subset for invalid cap bits! So now we set durring commit creds that
> the child is not dumpable. Given it is 'more priv' than its parent. It
> also means the parent cannot ptrace the child and other stupidity.
>
> The solution here is 2 things.
> 1) stop hiding capability bits in status
> we hide those upper bits which meant I couldn't spot this issue
> 2) stop giving any task undefined capability bits. it's simple, it you
> don't put those invalid bits in CAP_FULL_SET you won't get them in init
> and you won't get them in any other task either.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <epa...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Vagin <ava...@openvz.org>
> Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <mor...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
> Cc: Steve Grubb <sgr...@redhat.com>
> Cc: Dan Walsh <dwa...@redhat.com>
> Cc: sta...@kernel.org
> ---
> fs/proc/array.c | 9 ---------
> include/linux/capability.h | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
> index 64db2bc..d882018 100644
> --- a/fs/proc/array.c
> +++ b/fs/proc/array.c
> @@ -302,10 +302,6 @@ static void render_cap_t(struct seq_file *m, const char
> *header,
> seq_putc(m, '\n');
> }
>
> -/* Remove non-existent capabilities */
> -#define NORM_CAPS(v) (v.cap[CAP_TO_INDEX(CAP_LAST_CAP)] &= \
> - CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_LAST_CAP + 1) - 1)
> -
> static inline void task_cap(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *p)
> {
> const struct cred *cred;
> @@ -319,11 +315,6 @@ static inline void task_cap(struct seq_file *m, struct
> task_struct *p)
> cap_bset = cred->cap_bset;
> rcu_read_unlock();
>
> - NORM_CAPS(cap_inheritable);
> - NORM_CAPS(cap_permitted);
> - NORM_CAPS(cap_effective);
> - NORM_CAPS(cap_bset);
> -
> render_cap_t(m, "CapInh:\t", &cap_inheritable);
> render_cap_t(m, "CapPrm:\t", &cap_permitted);
> render_cap_t(m, "CapEff:\t", &cap_effective);
> diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
> index 84b13ad..1c36782 100644
> --- a/include/linux/capability.h
> +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ extern const kernel_cap_t __cap_init_eff_set;
> #else /* HAND-CODED capability initializers */
>
> # define CAP_EMPTY_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ 0, 0 }})
> -# define CAP_FULL_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ ~0, ~0 }})
> +# define CAP_FULL_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ ~0, CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_LAST_CAP +
> 1) -1 }})
> # define CAP_FS_SET ((kernel_cap_t){{ CAP_FS_MASK_B0 \
> | CAP_TO_MASK(CAP_LINUX_IMMUTABLE), \
> CAP_FS_MASK_B1 } })
> --
> 1.9.3
>
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