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<title>linux.git/kernel/user_namespace.c, branch v6.12.80</title>
<subtitle>Clone of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git</subtitle>
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<title>user_namespace: use kmemdup_array() instead of kmemdup() for multiple allocation</title>
<updated>2024-09-09T23:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jinjie Ruan</name>
<email>ruanjinjie@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-28T07:23:40+00:00</published>
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Let the kmemdup_array() take care about multiplication and possible
overflows.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240828072340.1249310-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Li zeming &lt;zeming@nfschina.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Let the kmemdup_array() take care about multiplication and possible
overflows.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240828072340.1249310-1-ruanjinjie@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan &lt;ruanjinjie@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Li zeming &lt;zeming@nfschina.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>user_namespace: remove unnecessary NULL values from kbuf</title>
<updated>2024-02-22T23:38:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Li zeming</name>
<email>zeming@nfschina.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-15T06:25:19+00:00</published>
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kbuf is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240115062519.31298-1-zeming@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Li zeming &lt;zeming@nfschina.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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kbuf is assigned first, so it does not need to initialize the assignment.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240115062519.31298-1-zeming@nfschina.com
Signed-off-by: Li zeming &lt;zeming@nfschina.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mnt_idmapping: decouple from namespaces</title>
<updated>2023-11-28T13:08:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-22T12:44:39+00:00</published>
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There's no reason we need to couple mnt idmapping to namespaces in the
way we currently do. Copy the idmapping when an idmapped mount is
created and don't take any reference on the namespace at all.

We also can't easily refcount struct uid_gid_map because it needs to
stay the size of a cacheline otherwise we risk performance regressions
(Ignoring for a second that right now struct uid_gid_map isn't actually
 64 byte but 72 but that's a fix for another patch series.).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-vfs-mnt_idmap-v1-3-dae4abdde5bd@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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There's no reason we need to couple mnt idmapping to namespaces in the
way we currently do. Copy the idmapping when an idmapped mount is
created and don't take any reference on the namespace at all.

We also can't easily refcount struct uid_gid_map because it needs to
stay the size of a cacheline otherwise we risk performance regressions
(Ignoring for a second that right now struct uid_gid_map isn't actually
 64 byte but 72 but that's a fix for another patch series.).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-vfs-mnt_idmap-v1-3-dae4abdde5bd@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userns: eliminate many kernel-doc warnings</title>
<updated>2023-11-18T14:00:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-30T16:32:15+00:00</published>
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Drop the kernel-doc "/**" notation from 8 structs or functions to
prevent 22 kernel-doc warnings  (samples below).

user_namespace.c:239: warning: Function parameter or member 'map_up' not described in 'idmap_key'
user_namespace.c:246: warning: Function parameter or member 'k' not described in 'cmp_map_id'
user_namespace.c:277: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_range_down_max'
user_namespace.c:295: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_range_down_base'
user_namespace.c:344: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_up_base'
user_namespace.c:364: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_up_max'
user_namespace.c:776: warning: Function parameter or member 'map' not described in 'insert_extent'
user_namespace.c:844: warning: Function parameter or member 'map' not described in 'sort_idmaps'

Fixes: 6397fac4915a ("userns: bump idmap limits to 340")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830163215.13193-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Drop the kernel-doc "/**" notation from 8 structs or functions to
prevent 22 kernel-doc warnings  (samples below).

user_namespace.c:239: warning: Function parameter or member 'map_up' not described in 'idmap_key'
user_namespace.c:246: warning: Function parameter or member 'k' not described in 'cmp_map_id'
user_namespace.c:277: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_range_down_max'
user_namespace.c:295: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_range_down_base'
user_namespace.c:344: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_up_base'
user_namespace.c:364: warning: Function parameter or member 'extents' not described in 'map_id_up_max'
user_namespace.c:776: warning: Function parameter or member 'map' not described in 'insert_extent'
user_namespace.c:844: warning: Function parameter or member 'map' not described in 'sort_idmaps'

Fixes: 6397fac4915a ("userns: bump idmap limits to 340")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230830163215.13193-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T06:53:31+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig-&gt;stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init</title>
<updated>2023-10-18T21:43:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-11T16:55:00+00:00</published>
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts</title>
<updated>2023-10-11T15:46:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-10-28T10:31:14+00:00</published>
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Enable unprivileged sandboxes to create their own binfmt_misc mounts.
This is based on Laurent's work in [1] but has been significantly
reworked to fix various issues we identified in earlier versions.

While binfmt_misc can currently only be mounted in the initial user
namespace, binary types registered in this binfmt_misc instance are
available to all sandboxes (Either by having them installed in the
sandbox or by registering the binary type with the F flag causing the
interpreter to be opened right away). So binfmt_misc binary types are
already delegated to sandboxes implicitly.

However, while a sandbox has access to all registered binary types in
binfmt_misc a sandbox cannot currently register its own binary types
in binfmt_misc. This has prevented various use-cases some of which were
already outlined in [1] but we have a range of issues associated with
this (cf. [3]-[5] below which are just a small sample).

Extend binfmt_misc to be mountable in non-initial user namespaces.
Similar to other filesystem such as nfsd, mqueue, and sunrpc we use
keyed superblock management. The key determines whether we need to
create a new superblock or can reuse an already existing one. We use the
user namespace of the mount as key. This means a new binfmt_misc
superblock is created once per user namespace creation. Subsequent
mounts of binfmt_misc in the same user namespace will mount the same
binfmt_misc instance. We explicitly do not create a new binfmt_misc
superblock on every binfmt_misc mount as the semantics for
load_misc_binary() line up with the keying model. This also allows us to
retrieve the relevant binfmt_misc instance based on the caller's user
namespace which can be done in a simple (bounded to 32 levels) loop.

Similar to the current binfmt_misc semantics allowing access to the
binary types in the initial binfmt_misc instance we do allow sandboxes
access to their parent's binfmt_misc mounts if they do not have created
a separate binfmt_misc instance.

Overall, this will unblock the use-cases mentioned below and in general
will also allow to support and harden execution of another
architecture's binaries in tight sandboxes. For instance, using the
unshare binary it possible to start a chroot of another architecture and
configure the binfmt_misc interpreter without being root to run the
binaries in this chroot and without requiring the host to modify its
binary type handlers.

Henning had already posted a few experiments in the cover letter at [1].
But here's an additional example where an unprivileged container
registers qemu-user-static binary handlers for various binary types in
its separate binfmt_misc mount and is then seamlessly able to start
containers with a different architecture without affecting the host:

root    [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers f1
1000000  \_ /sbin/init
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1000100      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
1000101      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
1000000      \_ /usr/sbin/cron -f
1000103      \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1000000      \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1000104      \_ /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1000000      \_ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1000107      \_ dnsmasq --conf-file=/dev/null -u lxc-dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/lxc/dnsmasq.pid --liste
1000000      \_ [lxc monitor] /var/lib/lxc f1-s390x
1100000          \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/init
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/cron -f
1100103              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-ac
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1100104              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/0 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/1 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/2 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/3 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216091220.465626-1-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/binfmt-misc-permission-denied
[3]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-binfmt-support-for-qemu-static-interpreters
[4]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/3-1-0-binfmt-support-service-in-unprivileged-guest-requires-write-access-on-hosts-proc-sys-fs-binfmt-misc
[5]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/qemu-user-static-not-working-4-11

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu (origin)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-2-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Henning Schild &lt;henning.schild@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
---
/* v2 */
- Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;:
  - Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace triggered allocations when a
    new binary type handler is registered.
- Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;:
  - Switch authorship to me. I refused to do that earlier even though
    Laurent said I should do so because I think it's genuinely bad form.
    But by now I have changed so many things that it'd be unfair to
    blame Laurent for any potential bugs in here.
  - Add more comments that explain what's going on.
  - Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
    doing to make the code easier to understand.
  - In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
    either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
    handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
    file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
    That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
    that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
    bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
    already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
    safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
    the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
    happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
    the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
    write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
    the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
    guarantees to the user.
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Enable unprivileged sandboxes to create their own binfmt_misc mounts.
This is based on Laurent's work in [1] but has been significantly
reworked to fix various issues we identified in earlier versions.

While binfmt_misc can currently only be mounted in the initial user
namespace, binary types registered in this binfmt_misc instance are
available to all sandboxes (Either by having them installed in the
sandbox or by registering the binary type with the F flag causing the
interpreter to be opened right away). So binfmt_misc binary types are
already delegated to sandboxes implicitly.

However, while a sandbox has access to all registered binary types in
binfmt_misc a sandbox cannot currently register its own binary types
in binfmt_misc. This has prevented various use-cases some of which were
already outlined in [1] but we have a range of issues associated with
this (cf. [3]-[5] below which are just a small sample).

Extend binfmt_misc to be mountable in non-initial user namespaces.
Similar to other filesystem such as nfsd, mqueue, and sunrpc we use
keyed superblock management. The key determines whether we need to
create a new superblock or can reuse an already existing one. We use the
user namespace of the mount as key. This means a new binfmt_misc
superblock is created once per user namespace creation. Subsequent
mounts of binfmt_misc in the same user namespace will mount the same
binfmt_misc instance. We explicitly do not create a new binfmt_misc
superblock on every binfmt_misc mount as the semantics for
load_misc_binary() line up with the keying model. This also allows us to
retrieve the relevant binfmt_misc instance based on the caller's user
namespace which can be done in a simple (bounded to 32 levels) loop.

Similar to the current binfmt_misc semantics allowing access to the
binary types in the initial binfmt_misc instance we do allow sandboxes
access to their parent's binfmt_misc mounts if they do not have created
a separate binfmt_misc instance.

Overall, this will unblock the use-cases mentioned below and in general
will also allow to support and harden execution of another
architecture's binaries in tight sandboxes. For instance, using the
unshare binary it possible to start a chroot of another architecture and
configure the binfmt_misc interpreter without being root to run the
binaries in this chroot and without requiring the host to modify its
binary type handlers.

Henning had already posted a few experiments in the cover letter at [1].
But here's an additional example where an unprivileged container
registers qemu-user-static binary handlers for various binary types in
its separate binfmt_misc mount and is then seamlessly able to start
containers with a different architecture without affecting the host:

root    [lxc monitor] /var/snap/lxd/common/lxd/containers f1
1000000  \_ /sbin/init
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
1000100      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd
1000101      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
1000000      \_ /usr/sbin/cron -f
1000103      \_ /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-activation --syslog-only
1000000      \_ /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1000104      \_ /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1000000      \_ /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1000000      \_ /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1000107      \_ dnsmasq --conf-file=/dev/null -u lxc-dnsmasq --strict-order --bind-interfaces --pid-file=/run/lxc/dnsmasq.pid --liste
1000000      \_ [lxc monitor] /var/lib/lxc f1-s390x
1100000          \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/init
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-journald
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/cron -f
1100103              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork --nopidfile --systemd-ac
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/networkd-dispatcher --run-startup-triggers
1100104              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n -iNONE
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-logind
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud console 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/0 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/1 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/2 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /sbin/agetty -o -p -- \u --noclear --keep-baud pts/3 115200,38400,9600 vt220
1100000              \_ /usr/bin/qemu-s390x-static /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20191216091220.465626-1-laurent@vivier.eu
[2]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/binfmt-misc-permission-denied
[3]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/lxd-binfmt-support-for-qemu-static-interpreters
[4]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/3-1-0-binfmt-support-service-in-unprivileged-guest-requires-write-access-on-hosts-proc-sys-fs-binfmt-misc
[5]: https://discuss.linuxcontainers.org/t/qemu-user-static-not-working-4-11

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216091220.465626-2-laurent@vivier.eu (origin)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211028103114.2849140-2-brauner@kernel.org (v1)
Cc: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Cc: Henning Schild &lt;henning.schild@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Andrei Vagin &lt;avagin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier &lt;laurent@vivier.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
---
/* v2 */
- Serge Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;:
  - Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace triggered allocations when a
    new binary type handler is registered.
- Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;:
  - Switch authorship to me. I refused to do that earlier even though
    Laurent said I should do so because I think it's genuinely bad form.
    But by now I have changed so many things that it'd be unfair to
    blame Laurent for any potential bugs in here.
  - Add more comments that explain what's going on.
  - Rename functions while changing them to better reflect what they are
    doing to make the code easier to understand.
  - In the first version when a specific binary type handler was removed
    either through a write to the entry's file or all binary type
    handlers were removed by a write to the binfmt_misc mount's status
    file all cleanup work happened during inode eviction.
    That includes removal of the relevant entries from entry list. While
    that works fine I disliked that model after thinking about it for a
    bit. Because it means that there was a window were someone has
    already removed a or all binary handlers but they could still be
    safely reached from load_misc_binary() when it has managed to take
    the read_lock() on the entries list while inode eviction was already
    happening. Again, that perfectly benign but it's cleaner to remove
    the binary handler from the list immediately meaning that ones the
    write to then entry's file or the binfmt_misc status file returns
    the binary type cannot be executed anymore. That gives stronger
    guarantees to the user.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>userns: fix a struct's kernel-doc notation</title>
<updated>2023-02-03T06:50:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>rdunlap@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-08T02:12:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=e227db4d4f125efb1cae2f1337da85bc10b3185e'/>
<id>e227db4d4f125efb1cae2f1337da85bc10b3185e</id>
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Use the 'struct' keyword for a struct's kernel-doc notation to avoid a
kernel-doc warning:

kernel/user_namespace.c:232: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * idmap_key struct holds the information necessary to find an idmapping in a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230108021243.16683-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Use the 'struct' keyword for a struct's kernel-doc notation to avoid a
kernel-doc warning:

kernel/user_namespace.c:232: warning: This comment starts with '/**', but isn't a kernel-doc comment. Refer Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst
 * idmap_key struct holds the information necessary to find an idmapping in a

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230108021243.16683-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace</title>
<updated>2022-10-09T23:24:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-09T23:24:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=493ffd6605b2d3d4dc7008ab927dba319f36671f'/>
<id>493ffd6605b2d3d4dc7008ab927dba319f36671f</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ucounts update from Eric Biederman:
 "Split rlimit and ucount values and max values

  After the ucount rlimit code was merged a bunch of small but
  siginificant bugs were found and fixed. At the time it was realized
  that part of the problem was that while the ucount rlimits were very
  similar to the oridinary ucounts (in being nested counts with limits)
  the semantics were slightly different and the code would be less error
  prone if there was less sharing.

  This is the long awaited cleanup that should hopefully keep things
  more comprehensible and less error prone for whoever needs to touch
  that code next"

* tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
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<pre>
Pull ucounts update from Eric Biederman:
 "Split rlimit and ucount values and max values

  After the ucount rlimit code was merged a bunch of small but
  siginificant bugs were found and fixed. At the time it was realized
  that part of the problem was that while the ucount rlimits were very
  similar to the oridinary ucounts (in being nested counts with limits)
  the semantics were slightly different and the code would be less error
  prone if there was less sharing.

  This is the long awaited cleanup that should hopefully keep things
  more comprehensible and less error prone for whoever needs to touch
  that code next"

* tag 'ucount-rlimits-cleanups-for-v5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  ucounts: Split rlimit and ucount values and max values
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>security, lsm: Introduce security_create_user_ns()</title>
<updated>2022-08-16T21:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederick Lawler</name>
<email>fred@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-15T16:20:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=7cd4c5c2101cb092db00f61f69d24380cf7a0ee8'/>
<id>7cd4c5c2101cb092db00f61f69d24380cf7a0ee8</id>
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User namespaces are an effective tool to allow programs to run with
permission without requiring the need for a program to run as root. User
namespaces may also be used as a sandboxing technique. However, attackers
sometimes leverage user namespaces as an initial attack vector to perform
some exploit. [1,2,3]

While it is not the unprivileged user namespace functionality, which
causes the kernel to be exploitable, users/administrators might want to
more granularly limit or at least monitor how various processes use this
functionality, while vulnerable kernel subsystems are being patched.

Preventing user namespace already creation comes in a few of forms in
order of granularity:

        1. /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces sysctl
        2. Distro specific patch(es)
        3. CONFIG_USER_NS

To block a task based on its attributes, the LSM hook cred_prepare is a
decent candidate for use because it provides more granular control, and
it is called before create_user_ns():

        cred = prepare_creds()
                security_prepare_creds()
                        call_int_hook(cred_prepare, ...
        if (cred)
                create_user_ns(cred)

Since security_prepare_creds() is meant for LSMs to copy and prepare
credentials, access control is an unintended use of the hook. [4]
Further, security_prepare_creds() will always return a ENOMEM if the
hook returns any non-zero error code.

This hook also does not handle the clone3 case which requires us to
access a user space pointer to know if we're in the CLONE_NEW_USER
call path which may be subject to a TOCTTOU attack.

Lastly, cred_prepare is called in many call paths, and a targeted hook
further limits the frequency of calls which is a beneficial outcome.
Therefore introduce a new function security_create_user_ns() with an
accompanying userns_create LSM hook.

With the new userns_create hook, users will have more control over the
observability and access control over user namespace creation. Users
should expect that normal operation of user namespaces will behave as
usual, and only be impacted when controls are implemented by users or
administrators.

This hook takes the prepared creds for LSM authors to write policy
against. On success, the new namespace is applied to credentials,
otherwise an error is returned.

Links:
1. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0492
2. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25636
3. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-34918
4. https://lore.kernel.org/all/1c4b1c0d-12f6-6e9e-a6a3-cdce7418110c@schaufler-ca.com/

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler &lt;fred@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
User namespaces are an effective tool to allow programs to run with
permission without requiring the need for a program to run as root. User
namespaces may also be used as a sandboxing technique. However, attackers
sometimes leverage user namespaces as an initial attack vector to perform
some exploit. [1,2,3]

While it is not the unprivileged user namespace functionality, which
causes the kernel to be exploitable, users/administrators might want to
more granularly limit or at least monitor how various processes use this
functionality, while vulnerable kernel subsystems are being patched.

Preventing user namespace already creation comes in a few of forms in
order of granularity:

        1. /proc/sys/user/max_user_namespaces sysctl
        2. Distro specific patch(es)
        3. CONFIG_USER_NS

To block a task based on its attributes, the LSM hook cred_prepare is a
decent candidate for use because it provides more granular control, and
it is called before create_user_ns():

        cred = prepare_creds()
                security_prepare_creds()
                        call_int_hook(cred_prepare, ...
        if (cred)
                create_user_ns(cred)

Since security_prepare_creds() is meant for LSMs to copy and prepare
credentials, access control is an unintended use of the hook. [4]
Further, security_prepare_creds() will always return a ENOMEM if the
hook returns any non-zero error code.

This hook also does not handle the clone3 case which requires us to
access a user space pointer to know if we're in the CLONE_NEW_USER
call path which may be subject to a TOCTTOU attack.

Lastly, cred_prepare is called in many call paths, and a targeted hook
further limits the frequency of calls which is a beneficial outcome.
Therefore introduce a new function security_create_user_ns() with an
accompanying userns_create LSM hook.

With the new userns_create hook, users will have more control over the
observability and access control over user namespace creation. Users
should expect that normal operation of user namespaces will behave as
usual, and only be impacted when controls are implemented by users or
administrators.

This hook takes the prepared creds for LSM authors to write policy
against. On success, the new namespace is applied to credentials,
otherwise an error is returned.

Links:
1. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0492
2. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-25636
3. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-34918
4. https://lore.kernel.org/all/1c4b1c0d-12f6-6e9e-a6a3-cdce7418110c@schaufler-ca.com/

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: KP Singh &lt;kpsingh@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederick Lawler &lt;fred@cloudflare.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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