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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:19:09 +1100
From: Ryan Mallon <rmallon@...il.com>
To: George Spelvin <linux@...izon.com>, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
joe@...ches.com
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com,
eldad@...refinery.com, jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com, jkosina@...e.cz,
keescook@...omium.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3a] vsprintf: Check real user/group id for %pK
On 11/10/13 15:42, George Spelvin wrote:
> ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>> Sigh. This is all wrong. The only correct thing to test is
>> file->f_cred. Aka the capabilities of the program that opened the
>> file.
>>
>> Which means that the interface to %pK in the case of kptr_restrict is
>> broken as it has no way to be passed the information it needs to make
>> a sensible decision.
>
> I looked at the code, and pretty painful. Certainly it's possible to
> include a reference to the file (I was thinking of just the credentials,
> actually) in the seq_file. But getting that to the vsprintf.c code
> (specifically, the pointer() function) is a PITA.
>
> I'm willing to accept the currently proposed kludge as a "good enough"
> approximation, as long as we're all agreed that using the credentials
> at open() time would be The Right Thing, and hopefully someone will find
> the round tuitts to implement that in future.
>
> But in the meantime, "the perfect is the enemey of the good" is worth
> remembering.
>
> (An alternate implementation I've been thinking about would be to do
> away with %pK, and instead have a "secret_ptr(p, seq->cred)" helper that
> returned p or 0 depending on the credential.)
Yeah, that is probably the best solution. I'll try to put together a
patch series doing this. It will obviously be more involved though, so I
think it is still worth merging the original patch in the interm.
~Ryan
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