On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Adding Ted, who might know how this all hooks together. (The context >>>> is that a write() or truncate() on a setgid file clears the setgid, >>>> but mmap writes don't.) >>>> >>>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Willy Tarreau <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 03:29:55PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: >>>>>>> Using "write" does kill the set-gid bit. I haven't looked at >>>>>>> why. >>>>>>> Al or anyone else, is there a meaningful distinction here? >>>>>> >>>>>> I remember this one, I got caught once while trying to put a shell into >>>>>> a suid-writable file to get some privileges someone forgot to offer me >>>>>> :-) >>>>>> >>>>>> It's done by should_remove_suid() which is called upon write() and >>>>>> truncate(). >>>> >>>> file_remove_privs() seems to be the right entry point. >>>> __generic_file_write_iter in mm/filemap.c calls it, though. Are these >>>> callbacks not used for mmap writes? >>> >>> They're certainly not used early enough -- we need to remove suid when >>> the page becomes writable via mmap (wp_page_shared), not when >>> writeback happens, or at least not only when writeback happens. >> >> Well, I'm shy about the change there. For example, we don't strip in >> on open(RDWR), just on write(). > > I take it back. Hooking wp_page_shared looks expensive. :) Maybe we do > need to hook the mmap?
But file_update_time already pokes at the same (or nearby) cachelines, I think -- why would it be expensive? The whole thing could be guarded by if (unlikely(is setuid)), right? --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
