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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2020 18:10:06 +0100
From: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>, Alexey Gladkov <legion@...nel.org>,
"Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 4/4] Allow to change the user namespace in which
user rlimits are counted
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 5:52 PM Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@...il.com> wrote:
> Add a new prctl to change the user namespace in which the process
> counter is located. A pointer to the user namespace is in cred struct
> to be inherited by all child processes.
[...]
> + case PR_SET_RLIMIT_USER_NAMESPACE:
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
> + return -EPERM;
> +
> + switch (arg2) {
> + case PR_RLIMIT_BIND_GLOBAL_USERNS:
> + error = set_rlimit_ns(&init_user_ns);
> + break;
> + case PR_RLIMIT_BIND_CURRENT_USERNS:
> + error = set_rlimit_ns(current_user_ns());
> + break;
> + default:
> + error = -EINVAL;
> + }
> + break;
I don't see how this can work. capable() requires that
current_user_ns()==&init_user_ns, so you can't use this API to bind
rlimits to any other user namespace.
Fundamentally, if it requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, this probably can't be
done as an API that a process uses to change its own rlimit scope. In
that case I would implement this as part of clone3() instead of
prctl(). (Then init_user_ns can set it if the caller has
CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. If you want to have support for doing the same thing
with nested namespaces, you'd also need a flag that the first-level
clone3() can set on the namespace to say "further rlimit splitting
should be allowed".)
Or alternatively, we could say that CAP_SYS_RESOURCE doesn't matter,
and instead you're allowed to move the rlimit scope if your current
hard rlimit is INFINITY. That might make more sense? Maybe?
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