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<title>UPSTREAM: capabilities: ambient capabilities</title>
<updated>2016-11-18T12:30:33+00:00</updated>
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<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@kernel.org</email>
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Credit where credit is due: this idea comes from Christoph Lameter with
a lot of valuable input from Serge Hallyn.  This patch is heavily based
on Christoph's patch.

===== The status quo =====

On Linux, there are a number of capabilities defined by the kernel.  To
perform various privileged tasks, processes can wield capabilities that
they hold.

Each task has four capability masks: effective (pE), permitted (pP),
inheritable (pI), and a bounding set (X).  When the kernel checks for a
capability, it checks pE.  The other capability masks serve to modify
what capabilities can be in pE.

Any task can remove capabilities from pE, pP, or pI at any time.  If a
task has a capability in pP, it can add that capability to pE and/or pI.
If a task has CAP_SETPCAP, then it can add any capability to pI, and it
can remove capabilities from X.

Tasks are not the only things that can have capabilities; files can also
have capabilities.  A file can have no capabilty information at all [1].
If a file has capability information, then it has a permitted mask (fP)
and an inheritable mask (fI) as well as a single effective bit (fE) [2].
File capabilities modify the capabilities of tasks that execve(2) them.

A task that successfully calls execve has its capabilities modified for
the file ultimately being excecuted (i.e.  the binary itself if that
binary is ELF or for the interpreter if the binary is a script.) [3] In
the capability evolution rules, for each mask Z, pZ represents the old
value and pZ' represents the new value.  The rules are:

  pP' = (X &amp; fP) | (pI &amp; fI)
  pI' = pI
  pE' = (fE ? pP' : 0)
  X is unchanged

For setuid binaries, fP, fI, and fE are modified by a moderately
complicated set of rules that emulate POSIX behavior.  Similarly, if
euid == 0 or ruid == 0, then fP, fI, and fE are modified differently
(primary, fP and fI usually end up being the full set).  For nonroot
users executing binaries with neither setuid nor file caps, fI and fP
are empty and fE is false.

As an extra complication, if you execute a process as nonroot and fE is
set, then the "secure exec" rules are in effect: AT_SECURE gets set,
LD_PRELOAD doesn't work, etc.

This is rather messy.  We've learned that making any changes is
dangerous, though: if a new kernel version allows an unprivileged
program to change its security state in a way that persists cross
execution of a setuid program or a program with file caps, this
persistent state is surprisingly likely to allow setuid or file-capped
programs to be exploited for privilege escalation.

===== The problem =====

Capability inheritance is basically useless.

If you aren't root and you execute an ordinary binary, fI is zero, so
your capabilities have no effect whatsoever on pP'.  This means that you
can't usefully execute a helper process or a shell command with elevated
capabilities if you aren't root.

On current kernels, you can sort of work around this by setting fI to
the full set for most or all non-setuid executable files.  This causes
pP' = pI for nonroot, and inheritance works.  No one does this because
it's a PITA and it isn't even supported on most filesystems.

If you try this, you'll discover that every nonroot program ends up with
secure exec rules, breaking many things.

This is a problem that has bitten many people who have tried to use
capabilities for anything useful.

===== The proposed change =====

This patch adds a fifth capability mask called the ambient mask (pA).
pA does what most people expect pI to do.

pA obeys the invariant that no bit can ever be set in pA if it is not
set in both pP and pI.  Dropping a bit from pP or pI drops that bit from
pA.  This ensures that existing programs that try to drop capabilities
still do so, with a complication.  Because capability inheritance is so
broken, setting KEEPCAPS, using setresuid to switch to nonroot uids, and
then calling execve effectively drops capabilities.  Therefore,
setresuid from root to nonroot conditionally clears pA unless
SECBIT_NO_SETUID_FIXUP is set.  Processes that don't like this can
re-add bits to pA afterwards.

The capability evolution rules are changed:

  pA' = (file caps or setuid or setgid ? 0 : pA)
  pP' = (X &amp; fP) | (pI &amp; fI) | pA'
  pI' = pI
  pE' = (fE ? pP' : pA')
  X is unchanged

If you are nonroot but you have a capability, you can add it to pA.  If
you do so, your children get that capability in pA, pP, and pE.  For
example, you can set pA = CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE, and your children can
automatically bind low-numbered ports.  Hallelujah!

Unprivileged users can create user namespaces, map themselves to a
nonzero uid, and create both privileged (relative to their namespace)
and unprivileged process trees.  This is currently more or less
impossible.  Hallelujah!

You cannot use pA to try to subvert a setuid, setgid, or file-capped
program: if you execute any such program, pA gets cleared and the
resulting evolution rules are unchanged by this patch.

Users with nonzero pA are unlikely to unintentionally leak that
capability.  If they run programs that try to drop privileges, dropping
privileges will still work.

It's worth noting that the degree of paranoia in this patch could
possibly be reduced without causing serious problems.  Specifically, if
we allowed pA to persist across executing non-pA-aware setuid binaries
and across setresuid, then, naively, the only capabilities that could
leak as a result would be the capabilities in pA, and any attacker
*already* has those capabilities.  This would make me nervous, though --
setuid binaries that tried to privilege-separate might fail to do so,
and putting CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH or CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE into pA could have
unexpected side effects.  (Whether these unexpected side effects would
be exploitable is an open question.) I've therefore taken the more
paranoid route.  We can revisit this later.

An alternative would be to require PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS before setting
ambient capabilities.  I think that this would be annoying and would
make granting otherwise unprivileged users minor ambient capabilities
(CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE or CAP_NET_RAW for example) much less useful than
it is with this patch.

===== Footnotes =====

[1] Files that are missing the "security.capability" xattr or that have
unrecognized values for that xattr end up with has_cap set to false.
The code that does that appears to be complicated for no good reason.

[2] The libcap capability mask parsers and formatters are dangerously
misleading and the documentation is flat-out wrong.  fE is *not* a mask;
it's a single bit.  This has probably confused every single person who
has tried to use file capabilities.

[3] Linux very confusingly processes both the script and the interpreter
if applicable, for reasons that elude me.  The results from thinking
about a script's file capabilities and/or setuid bits are mostly
discarded.

Preliminary userspace code is here, but it needs updating:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/luto/util-linux-playground.git/commit/?h=cap_ambient&amp;id=7f5afbd175d2

Here is a test program that can be used to verify the functionality
(from Christoph):

/*
 * Test program for the ambient capabilities. This program spawns a shell
 * that allows running processes with a defined set of capabilities.
 *
 * (C) 2015 Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
 * Released under: GPL v3 or later.
 *
 *
 * Compile using:
 *
 *	gcc -o ambient_test ambient_test.o -lcap-ng
 *
 * This program must have the following capabilities to run properly:
 * Permissions for CAP_NET_RAW, CAP_NET_ADMIN, CAP_SYS_NICE
 *
 * A command to equip the binary with the right caps is:
 *
 *	setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin,cap_sys_nice+p ambient_test
 *
 *
 * To get a shell with additional caps that can be inherited by other processes:
 *
 *	./ambient_test /bin/bash
 *
 *
 * Verifying that it works:
 *
 * From the bash spawed by ambient_test run
 *
 *	cat /proc/$$/status
 *
 * and have a look at the capabilities.
 */

/*
 * Definitions from the kernel header files. These are going to be removed
 * when the /usr/include files have these defined.
 */

static void set_ambient_cap(int cap)
{
	int rc;

	capng_get_caps_process();
	rc = capng_update(CAPNG_ADD, CAPNG_INHERITABLE, cap);
	if (rc) {
		printf("Cannot add inheritable cap\n");
		exit(2);
	}
	capng_apply(CAPNG_SELECT_CAPS);

	/* Note the two 0s at the end. Kernel checks for these */
	if (prctl(PR_CAP_AMBIENT, PR_CAP_AMBIENT_RAISE, cap, 0, 0)) {
		perror("Cannot set cap");
		exit(1);
	}
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	int rc;

	set_ambient_cap(CAP_NET_RAW);
	set_ambient_cap(CAP_NET_ADMIN);
	set_ambient_cap(CAP_SYS_NICE);

	printf("Ambient_test forking shell\n");
	if (execv(argv[1], argv + 1))
		perror("Cannot exec");

	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt; # Original author
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Aaron Jones &lt;aaronmdjones@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ted Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Andrew G. Morgan &lt;morgan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Austin S Hemmelgarn &lt;ahferroin7@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Markku Savela &lt;msa@moth.iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;james.l.morris@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
(cherry picked from commit 58319057b7847667f0c9585b9de0e8932b0fdb08)

Bug: 31038224
Change-Id: I88bc5caa782dc6be23dc7e839ff8e11b9a903f8c
Signed-off-by: Jorge Lucangeli Obes &lt;jorgelo@google.com&gt;
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<title>UPSTREAM: perf: Fix race in swevent hash</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T11:20:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-15T12:49:05+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 12ca6ad2e3a896256f086497a7c7406a547ee373)

There's a race on CPU unplug where we free the swevent hash array
while it can still have events on. This will result in a
use-after-free which is BAD.

Simply do not free the hash array on unplug. This leaves the thing
around and no use-after-free takes place.

When the last swevent dies, we do a for_each_possible_cpu() iteration
anyway to clean these up, at which time we'll free it, so no leakage
will occur.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Change-Id: I14c0679a2934dccdbb052805e6430fe54b5978f0
Bug: 30952077
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroup: prefer %pK to %p</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T11:20:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nick Desaulniers</name>
<email>ndesaulniers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-13T18:11:03+00:00</published>
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Prevents leaking kernel pointers when using kptr_restrict.

Bug: 30149174
Change-Id: I76d4132a0f47f4b0a9f042b8269e0f24edd111ed
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix race in swevent hash</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T11:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-08T21:34:03+00:00</published>
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There's a race on CPU unplug where we free the swevent hash array
while it can still have events on. This will result in a
use-after-free which is BAD.

Simply do not free the hash array on unplug. This leaves the thing
around and no use-after-free takes place.

When the last swevent dies, we do a for_each_possible_cpu() iteration
anyway to clean these up, at which time we'll free it, so no leakage
will occur.

Change-Id: I751faf3215bbdaa6b6358f3a752bdd24126cfa0b
Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Stephane Eranian &lt;eranian@google.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vince Weaver &lt;vincent.weaver@maine.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>BACKPORT: audit: fix a double fetch in audit_log_single_execve_arg()</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T11:13:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-09-13T19:41:08+00:00</published>
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(cherry picked from commit 43761473c254b45883a64441dd0bc85a42f3645c)

There is a double fetch problem in audit_log_single_execve_arg()
where we first check the execve(2) argumnets for any "bad" characters
which would require hex encoding and then re-fetch the arguments for
logging in the audit record[1].  Of course this leaves a window of
opportunity for an unsavory application to munge with the data.

This patch reworks things by only fetching the argument data once[2]
into a buffer where it is scanned and logged into the audit
records(s).  In addition to fixing the double fetch, this patch
improves on the original code in a few other ways: better handling
of large arguments which require encoding, stricter record length
checking, and some performance improvements (completely unverified,
but we got rid of some strlen() calls, that's got to be a good
thing).

As part of the development of this patch, I've also created a basic
regression test for the audit-testsuite, the test can be tracked on
GitHub at the following link:

 * https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-testsuite/issues/25

[1] If you pay careful attention, there is actually a triple fetch
problem due to a strnlen_user() call at the top of the function.

[2] This is a tiny white lie, we do make a call to strnlen_user()
prior to fetching the argument data.  I don't like it, but due to the
way the audit record is structured we really have no choice unless we
copy the entire argument at once (which would require a rather
wasteful allocation).  The good news is that with this patch the
kernel no longer relies on this strnlen_user() value for anything
beyond recording it in the log, we also update it with a trustworthy
value whenever possible.

Reported-by: Pengfei Wang &lt;wpengfeinudt@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Change-Id: I10e979e94605e3cf8d461e3e521f8f9837228aa5
Bug: 30956807
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<title>msm: null pointer dereferencing</title>
<updated>2016-11-17T11:11:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Wish Wu</name>
<email>wishwu007@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-16T01:03:14+00:00</published>
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Prevent unintended kernel NULL pointer dereferencing.

Orignal code:
  hlist_del_rcu(&amp;event-&gt;hlist_entry);

Fix: Adding pointer check:
  if(!hlist_unhashed(&amp;p_event-&gt;hlist_entry))
    hlist_del_rcu(&amp;p_event-&gt;hlist_entry);

Bug: 25364034
Change-Id: Ieda6d8f4bb567827fa6c7709e9e729905c6c3882
Signed-off-by: Yuan Lin &lt;yualin@google.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>futex-prevent-requeue-pi-on-same-futex.patch futex: Forbid uaddr == u…</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T13:16:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-08T09:07:56+00:00</published>
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…addr2 in futex_requeue(..., requeue_pi=1)

If uaddr == uaddr2, then we have broken the rule of only requeueing from
a non-pi futex to a pi futex with this call.  If we attempt this, then
dangling pointers may be left for rt_waiter resulting in an exploitable
condition.

This change brings futex_requeue() in line with futex_wait_requeue_pi()
which performs the same check as per commit 6f7b0a2a5c0f ("futex: Forbid
uaddr == uaddr2 in futex_wait_requeue_pi()")

[ tglx: Compare the resulting keys as well, as uaddrs might be
  	different depending on the mapping ]

Fixes CVE-2014-3153.

Change-Id: I3d40911aca262eaefc3852327fa12bec416cd27d
Reported-by: Pinkie Pie
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry &lt;wad@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: franciscofranco &lt;franciscofranco.1990@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: engstk &lt;eng.stk@sapo.pt&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: remove migration notification from RT class</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T13:15:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Muckle</name>
<email>smuckle@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-23T22:24:57+00:00</published>
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Commit 88a7e37d265 (sched: provide per cpu-cgroup option to
notify on migrations) added a notifier call when a task is moved
to a different CPU. Unfortunately the two call sites in the RT
sched class where this occurs happens with a runqueue lock held.
This can result in a deadlock if the notifier call attempts to do
something like wake up a task.

Fortunately the benefit of 88a7e37d265 comes mainly from notifying
on migration of non-RT tasks, so we can simply ignore the movements
of RT tasks.

CRs-Fixed: 491370
Change-Id: I8849d826bf1eeaf85a6f6ad872acb475247c5926
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: W4TCH0UT &lt;ateekujjawal@gmail.com&gt;

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched/rt.c
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: provide per cpu-cgroup option to notify on migrations</title>
<updated>2016-09-28T13:15:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Steve Muckle</name>
<email>smuckle@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-11T23:33:42+00:00</published>
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On systems where CPUs may run asynchronously, task migrations
between CPUs running at grossly different speeds can cause
problems.

This change provides a mechanism to notify a subsystem
in the kernel if a task in a particular cgroup migrates to a
different CPU. Other subsystems (such as cpufreq) may then
register for this notifier to take appropriate action when
such a task is migrated.

The cgroup attribute to set for this behavior is
"notify_on_migrate" .

Change-Id: Ie1868249e53ef901b89c837fdc33b0ad0c0a4590
Signed-off-by: Steve Muckle &lt;smuckle@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: W4TCH0UT &lt;ateekujjawal@gmail.com&gt;

Conflicts:
	kernel/sched/core.c
	kernel/sched/rt.c
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<title>sched: Reduce overestimating rq-&gt;avg_idle</title>
<updated>2016-09-18T17:40:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Low</name>
<email>jason.low2@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-08-31T06:47:10+00:00</published>
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Date	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 13:05:34 -0700

When updating avg_idle, if the delta exceeds some max value, then avg_idle
gets set to the max, regardless of what the previous avg was. This can cause
avg_idle to often be overestimated.

This patch modifies the way we update avg_idle by always updating it with the
function call to update_avg() first. Then, if avg_idle exceeds the max, we set
it to the max.

Signed-off-by: Jason Low &lt;jason.low2@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;

Signed-off-by: Paul Reioux &lt;reioux@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: engstk &lt;eng.stk@sapo.pt&gt;
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