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Andrii Nakryiko 6fe01d3cbb bpf: Add BPF token delegation mount options to BPF FS
Add few new mount options to BPF FS that allow to specify that a given
BPF FS instance allows creation of BPF token (added in the next patch),
and what sort of operations are allowed under BPF token. As such, we get
4 new mount options, each is a bit mask
  - `delegate_cmds` allow to specify which bpf() syscall commands are
    allowed with BPF token derived from this BPF FS instance;
  - if BPF_MAP_CREATE command is allowed, `delegate_maps` specifies
    a set of allowable BPF map types that could be created with BPF token;
  - if BPF_PROG_LOAD command is allowed, `delegate_progs` specifies
    a set of allowable BPF program types that could be loaded with BPF token;
  - if BPF_PROG_LOAD command is allowed, `delegate_attachs` specifies
    a set of allowable BPF program attach types that could be loaded with
    BPF token; delegate_progs and delegate_attachs are meant to be used
    together, as full BPF program type is, in general, determined
    through both program type and program attach type.

Currently, these mount options accept the following forms of values:
  - a special value "any", that enables all possible values of a given
  bit set;
  - numeric value (decimal or hexadecimal, determined by kernel
  automatically) that specifies a bit mask value directly;
  - all the values for a given mount option are combined, if specified
  multiple times. E.g., `mount -t bpf nodev /path/to/mount -o
  delegate_maps=0x1 -o delegate_maps=0x2` will result in a combined 0x3
  mask.

Ideally, more convenient (for humans) symbolic form derived from
corresponding UAPI enums would be accepted (e.g., `-o
delegate_progs=kprobe|tracepoint`) and I intend to implement this, but
it requires a bunch of UAPI header churn, so I postponed it until this
feature lands upstream or at least there is a definite consensus that
this feature is acceptable and is going to make it, just to minimize
amount of wasted effort and not increase amount of non-essential code to
be reviewed.

Attentive reader will notice that BPF FS is now marked as
FS_USERNS_MOUNT, which theoretically makes it mountable inside non-init
user namespace as long as the process has sufficient *namespaced*
capabilities within that user namespace. But in reality we still
restrict BPF FS to be mountable only by processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN *in
init userns* (extra check in bpf_fill_super()). FS_USERNS_MOUNT is added
to allow creating BPF FS context object (i.e., fsopen("bpf")) from
inside unprivileged process inside non-init userns, to capture that
userns as the owning userns. It will still be required to pass this
context object back to privileged process to instantiate and mount it.

This manipulation is important, because capturing non-init userns as the
owning userns of BPF FS instance (super block) allows to use that userns
to constraint BPF token to that userns later on (see next patch). So
creating BPF FS with delegation inside unprivileged userns will restrict
derived BPF token objects to only "work" inside that intended userns,
making it scoped to a intended "container". Also, setting these
delegation options requires capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN), so unprivileged
process cannot set this up without involvement of a privileged process.

There is a set of selftests at the end of the patch set that simulates
this sequence of steps and validates that everything works as intended.
But careful review is requested to make sure there are no missed gaps in
the implementation and testing.

This somewhat subtle set of aspects is the result of previous
discussions ([0]) about various user namespace implications and
interactions with BPF token functionality and is necessary to contain
BPF token inside intended user namespace.

  [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230704-hochverdient-lehne-eeb9eeef785e@brauner/

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240124022127.2379740-3-andrii@kernel.org
2024-01-24 16:21:00 -08:00
arch bpf, arm64: Enable the inline of bpf_kptr_xchg() 2024-01-23 15:11:23 -08:00
block for-6.8/block-2024-01-08 2024-01-11 13:58:04 -08:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto crypto: scomp - fix req->dst buffer overflow 2023-12-29 11:25:56 +08:00
Documentation bpf, docs: Clarify that MOVSX is only for BPF_X not BPF_K 2024-01-23 15:10:08 -08:00
drivers Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2024-01-18 17:33:50 -08:00
fs More eventfs fixes and a seq_buf fix for 6.8: 2024-01-18 14:45:33 -08:00
include bpf: Add BPF token delegation mount options to BPF FS 2024-01-24 16:21:00 -08:00
init Driver core changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-18 09:48:40 -08:00
io_uring Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
ipc shm: Slim down dependencies 2023-12-20 19:26:31 -05:00
kernel bpf: Add BPF token delegation mount options to BPF FS 2024-01-24 16:21:00 -08:00
lib cxl for v6.8 2024-01-18 16:22:43 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memblock: code readability improvement 2024-01-18 16:46:18 -08:00
net bpf, net: switch to dynamic registration 2024-01-23 17:12:46 -08:00
rust Rust changes for v6.8 2024-01-11 13:05:41 -08:00
samples tracing updates for 6.8: 2024-01-18 14:35:29 -08:00
scripts Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
security misc cleanups (the part that hadn't been picked by individual fs trees) 2024-01-11 20:23:50 -08:00
sound This cycle, I2C removes the currently unused CLASS_DDC support 2024-01-18 17:29:01 -08:00
tools libbpf: Ensure undefined bpf_attr field stays 0 2024-01-24 16:19:39 -08:00
usr usr/Kconfig: fix typos of "its" 2023-12-20 15:02:58 -08:00
virt Generic: 2024-01-17 13:03:37 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.7-rc4's for_each macro list 2023-12-08 23:54:38 +01:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: generate kernel.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS/ 2023-10-03 20:49:09 +09:00
.mailmap Char/Misc and other Driver changes for 6.8-rc1 2024-01-17 16:47:17 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING
CREDITS Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2024-01-18 17:33:50 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Including fixes from bpf and netfilter. 2024-01-18 17:33:50 -08:00
Makefile Quite a lot of kexec work this time around. Many singleton patches in 2024-01-09 11:46:20 -08:00
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