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<updated>2011-05-13T18:45:33Z</updated>
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<title>Cache user_ns in struct cred</title>
<updated>2011-05-13T18:45:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serge.hallyn@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2011-05-13T03:27:54Z</published>
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If !CONFIG_USERNS, have current_user_ns() defined to (&amp;init_user_ns).

Get rid of _current_user_ns.  This requires nsown_capable() to be
defined in capability.c rather than as static inline in capability.h,
so do that.

Request_key needs init_user_ns defined at current_user_ns if
!CONFIG_USERNS, so forward-declare that in cred.h if !CONFIG_USERNS
at current_user_ns() define.

Compile-tested with and without CONFIG_USERNS.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
[ This makes a huge performance difference for acl_permission_check(),
  up to 30%.  And that is one of the hottest kernel functions for loads
  that are pathname-lookup heavy.  ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>userns: security: make capabilities relative to the user namespace</title>
<updated>2011-03-24T02:47:02Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge E. Hallyn</name>
<email>serge@hallyn.com</email>
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<published>2011-03-23T23:43:17Z</published>
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- Introduce ns_capable to test for a capability in a non-default
  user namespace.
- Teach cap_capable to handle capabilities in a non-default
  user namespace.

The motivation is to get to the unprivileged creation of new
namespaces.  It looks like this gets us 90% of the way there, with
only potential uid confusion issues left.

I still need to handle getting all caps after creation but otherwise I
think I have a good starter patch that achieves all of your goals.

Changelog:
	11/05/2010: [serge] add apparmor
	12/14/2010: [serge] fix capabilities to created user namespaces
	Without this, if user serge creates a user_ns, he won't have
	capabilities to the user_ns he created.  THis is because we
	were first checking whether his effective caps had the caps
	he needed and returning -EPERM if not, and THEN checking whether
	he was the creator.  Reverse those checks.
	12/16/2010: [serge] security_real_capable needs ns argument in !security case
	01/11/2011: [serge] add task_ns_capable helper
	01/11/2011: [serge] add nsown_capable() helper per Bastian Blank suggestion
	02/16/2011: [serge] fix a logic bug: the root user is always creator of
		    init_user_ns, but should not always have capabilities to
		    it!  Fix the check in cap_capable().
	02/21/2011: Add the required user_ns parameter to security_capable,
		    fixing a compile failure.
	02/23/2011: Convert some macros to functions as per akpm comments.  Some
		    couldn't be converted because we can't easily forward-declare
		    them (they are inline if !SECURITY, extern if SECURITY).  Add
		    a current_user_ns function so we can use it in capability.h
		    without #including cred.h.  Move all forward declarations
		    together to the top of the #ifdef __KERNEL__ section, and use
		    kernel-doc format.
	02/23/2011: Per dhowells, clean up comment in cap_capable().
	02/23/2011: Per akpm, remove unreachable 'return -EPERM' in cap_capable.

(Original written and signed off by Eric;  latest, modified version
acked by him)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export current_user_ns() for ecryptfs]
[serge.hallyn@canonical.com: remove unneeded extra argument in selinux's task_has_capability]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@free.fr&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc5' into core/locking</title>
<updated>2011-02-16T12:33:41Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@elte.hu</email>
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<published>2011-02-16T12:33:35Z</published>
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Merge reason: pick up upstream fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure</title>
<updated>2011-02-07T22:04:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2011-02-07T13:36:16Z</published>
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In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new-&gt;usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error.  As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new-&gt;{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old-&gt;usage == 1.

Fix these leaks by assigning new-&gt;usage (and new-&gt;subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failure</title>
<updated>2011-02-07T22:04:00Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tetsuo Handa</name>
<email>penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp</email>
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<published>2011-02-07T13:36:10Z</published>
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In cred_alloc_blank() since 2.6.32, abort_creds(new) is called with
new-&gt;security == NULL and new-&gt;magic == 0 when security_cred_alloc_blank()
returns an error.  As a result, BUG() will be triggered if SELinux is enabled
or CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS=y, BUG() is called from __invalid_creds() because
cred-&gt;magic == 0.  Failing that, BUG() is called from selinux_cred_free()
because selinux_cred_free() is not expecting cred-&gt;security == NULL.  This does
not affect smack_cred_free(), tomoyo_cred_free() or apparmor_cred_free().

Fix these bugs by

(1) Set new-&gt;magic before calling security_cred_alloc_blank().

(2) Handle null cred-&gt;security in creds_are_invalid() and selinux_cred_free().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cred: Replace deprecated spinlock initialization</title>
<updated>2011-01-27T11:30:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2011-01-23T14:25:56Z</published>
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SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCK is deprecated. Use the lockdep capable variant
instead.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>signals: move cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct</title>
<updated>2010-10-28T01:03:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>KOSAKI Motohiro</name>
<email>kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-27T22:34:08Z</published>
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Oleg Nesterov pointed out we have to prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec
itself and we can reuse -&gt;cred_guard_mutex for it.  Yes, concurrent
execve() has no worth.

Let's move -&gt;cred_guard_mutex from task_struct to signal_struct.  It
naturally prevent multiple-threads-inside-exec.

Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro &lt;kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Roland McGrath &lt;roland@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks</title>
<updated>2010-08-12T16:51:35Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-12T15:54:57Z</published>
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Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks through gcc
format checking, and also so that side-effect checking is maintained too.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>CRED: Fix get_task_cred() and task_state() to not resurrect dead credentials</title>
<updated>2010-07-29T22:16:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2010-07-29T11:45:49Z</published>
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It's possible for get_task_cred() as it currently stands to 'corrupt' a set of
credentials by incrementing their usage count after their replacement by the
task being accessed.

What happens is that get_task_cred() can race with commit_creds():

	TASK_1			TASK_2			RCU_CLEANER
	--&gt;get_task_cred(TASK_2)
	rcu_read_lock()
	__cred = __task_cred(TASK_2)
				--&gt;commit_creds()
				old_cred = TASK_2-&gt;real_cred
				TASK_2-&gt;real_cred = ...
				put_cred(old_cred)
				  call_rcu(old_cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 0]
	get_cred(__cred)
		[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
	rcu_read_unlock()
							--&gt;put_cred_rcu()
							[__cred-&gt;usage == 1]
							panic()

However, since a tasks credentials are generally not changed very often, we can
reasonably make use of a loop involving reading the creds pointer and using
atomic_inc_not_zero() to attempt to increment it if it hasn't already hit zero.

If successful, we can safely return the credentials in the knowledge that, even
if the task we're accessing has released them, they haven't gone to the RCU
cleanup code.

We then change task_state() in procfs to use get_task_cred() rather than
calling get_cred() on the result of __task_cred(), as that suffers from the
same problem.

Without this change, a BUG_ON in __put_cred() or in put_cred_rcu() can be
tripped when it is noticed that the usage count is not zero as it ought to be,
for example:

kernel BUG at kernel/cred.c:168!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run
CPU 0
Pid: 2436, comm: master Not tainted 2.6.33.3-85.fc13.x86_64 #1 0HR330/OptiPlex
745
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
RSP: 0018:ffff88019e7e9eb8  EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff880161514480 RCX: 00000000ffffffff
RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: ffff880140c690c0 RDI: ffff880140c690c0
RBP: ffff88019e7e9eb8 R08: 00000000000000d0 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000040 R12: ffff880140c690c0
R13: ffff88019e77aea0 R14: 00007fff336b0a5c R15: 0000000000000001
FS:  00007f12f50d97c0(0000) GS:ffff880007400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8f461bc000 CR3: 00000001b26ce000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process master (pid: 2436, threadinfo ffff88019e7e8000, task ffff88019e77aea0)
Stack:
 ffff88019e7e9ec8 ffffffff810698cd ffff88019e7e9ef8 ffffffff81069b45
&lt;0&gt; ffff880161514180 ffff880161514480 ffff880161514180 0000000000000000
&lt;0&gt; ffff88019e7e9f28 ffffffff8106aace 0000000000000001 0000000000000246
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffff810698cd&gt;] put_cred+0x13/0x15
 [&lt;ffffffff81069b45&gt;] commit_creds+0x16b/0x175
 [&lt;ffffffff8106aace&gt;] set_current_groups+0x47/0x4e
 [&lt;ffffffff8106ac89&gt;] sys_setgroups+0xf6/0x105
 [&lt;ffffffff81009b02&gt;] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 48 8d 71 ff e8 7e 4e 15 00 85 c0 78 0b 8b 75 ec 48 89 df e8 ef 4a 15 00
48 83 c4 18 5b c9 c3 55 8b 07 8b 07 48 89 e5 85 c0 74 04 &lt;0f&gt; 0b eb fe 65 48 8b
04 25 00 cc 00 00 48 3b b8 58 04 00 00 75
RIP  [&lt;ffffffff81069881&gt;] __put_cred+0xc/0x45
 RSP &lt;ffff88019e7e9eb8&gt;
---[ end trace df391256a100ebdd ]---

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa &lt;jolsa@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>umh: creds: kill subprocess_info-&gt;cred logic</title>
<updated>2010-05-27T16:12:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-05-26T21:43:01Z</published>
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Now that nobody ever changes subprocess_info-&gt;cred we can kill this member
and related code.  ____call_usermodehelper() always runs in the context of
freshly forked kernel thread, it has the proper -&gt;cred copied from its
parent kthread, keventd.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Neil Horman &lt;nhorman@tuxdriver.com&gt;
Acked-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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