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  1. Sep 29, 2023
    • Elena Reshetova's avatar
      groups: Convert group_info.usage to refcount_t · d7700842
      Elena Reshetova authored
      
      atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters
      with the following properties:
       - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
       - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
       - once counter reaches zero, its further
         increments aren't allowed
       - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
         (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)
      
      Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
      refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and
      underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead
      to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.
      
      The variable group_info.usage is used as pure reference counter.
      Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.
      
      **Important note for maintainers:
      
      Some functions from refcount_t API defined in refcount.h have different
      memory ordering guarantees than their atomic counterparts. Please check
      Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst for more information.
      
      Normally the differences should not matter since refcount_t provides
      enough guarantees to satisfy the refcounting use cases, but in some
      rare cases it might matter. Please double check that you don't have
      some undocumented memory guarantees for this variable usage.
      
      For the group_info.usage it might make a difference in following places:
       - put_group_info(): decrement in refcount_dec_and_test() only
         provides RELEASE ordering and ACQUIRE ordering on success vs. fully
         ordered atomic counterpart
      
      Suggested-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarElena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarHans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
      Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230818041456.gonna.009-kees@kernel.org
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
      d7700842
  2. Jul 15, 2022
  3. Feb 26, 2021
  4. Oct 13, 2020
    • Thomas Cedeno's avatar
      LSM: Signal to SafeSetID when setting group IDs · 111767c1
      Thomas Cedeno authored
      
      For SafeSetID to properly gate set*gid() calls, it needs to know whether
      ns_capable() is being called from within a sys_set*gid() function or is
      being called from elsewhere in the kernel. This allows SafeSetID to deny
      CAP_SETGID to restricted groups when they are attempting to use the
      capability for code paths other than updating GIDs (e.g. setting up
      userns GID mappings). This is the identical approach to what is
      currently done for CAP_SETUID.
      
      NOTE: We also add signaling to SafeSetID from the setgroups() syscall,
      as we have future plans to restrict a process' ability to set
      supplementary groups in addition to what is added in this series for
      restricting setting of the primary group.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Cedeno <thomascedeno@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarMicah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>
      111767c1
  5. Jun 02, 2020
    • Christoph Hellwig's avatar
      mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc · 88dca4ca
      Christoph Hellwig authored
      
      The pgprot argument to __vmalloc is always PAGE_KERNEL now, so remove it.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> [hyperv]
      Acked-by: Gao Xiang <xiang@kernel.org> [erofs]
      Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarWei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
      Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
      Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
      Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
      Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
      Cc: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
      Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
      Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
      Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@arm.com>
      Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
      Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
      Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
      Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
      Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200414131348.444715-22-hch@lst.de
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      88dca4ca
  6. Dec 15, 2017
  7. Nov 02, 2017
    • Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar
      License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license · b2441318
      Greg Kroah-Hartman authored
      
      Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
      makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
      
      By default all files without license information are under the default
      license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
      
      Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
      SPDX license identifier.  The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
      shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
      
      This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
      Philippe Ombredanne.
      
      How this work was done:
      
      Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
      the use cases:
       - file had no licensing information it it.
       - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
       - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
      
      Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
      where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
      had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
      
      The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
      a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
      output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
      tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne.  Philippe prepared the
      base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
      
      The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
      assessed.  Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
      results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
      to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
      immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
       - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
       - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
         lines of source
       - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
         lines).
      
      All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
      
      The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
      identifiers to apply.
      
       - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
         considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
         COPYING file license applied.
      
         For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0                                              11139
      
         and resulted in the first patch in this series.
      
         If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
         Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0".  Results of that was:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|-------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        930
      
         and resulted in the second patch in this series.
      
       - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
         of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
         any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
         it (per prior point).  Results summary:
      
         SPDX license identifier                            # files
         ---------------------------------------------------|------
         GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note                       270
         GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      169
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause)    21
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    17
         LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                      15
         GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       14
         ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause)    5
         LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note                       4
         LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note                        3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT)              3
         ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT)             1
      
         and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
      
       - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
         the concluded license(s).
      
       - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
         license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
         licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
      
       - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
         resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
         which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
      
       - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
         confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
       - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
         the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
         in time.
      
      In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
      spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
      source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
      by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
      
      Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
      FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
      disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights.  The
      Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
      they are related.
      
      Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
      for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
      files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
      in about 15000 files.
      
      In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
      copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
      correct identifier.
      
      Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
      inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
      version early this week with:
       - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
         license ids and scores
       - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
         files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
       - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
         was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
         SPDX license was correct
      
      This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction.  This
      worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
      different types of files to be modified.
      
      These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg.  Thomas wrote a script to
      parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
      format that the file expected.  This script was further refined by Greg
      based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
      distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
      comment types.)  Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
      generate the patches.
      
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
      b2441318
  8. Jul 10, 2017
  9. May 09, 2017
  10. Dec 24, 2016
  11. Oct 08, 2016
    • Alexey Dobriyan's avatar
      cred: simpler, 1D supplementary groups · 81243eac
      Alexey Dobriyan authored
      Current supplementary groups code can massively overallocate memory and
      is implemented in a way so that access to individual gid is done via 2D
      array.
      
      If number of gids is <= 32, memory allocation is more or less tolerable
      (140/148 bytes).  But if it is not, code allocates full page (!)
      regardless and, what's even more fun, doesn't reuse small 32-entry
      array.
      
      2D array means dependent shifts, loads and LEAs without possibility to
      optimize them (gid is never known at compile time).
      
      All of the above is unnecessary.  Switch to the usual
      trailing-zero-len-array scheme.  Memory is allocated with
      kmalloc/vmalloc() and only as much as needed.  Accesses become simpler
      (LEA 8(gi,idx,4) or even without displacement).
      
      Maximum number of gids is 65536 which translates to 256KB+8 bytes.  I
      think kernel can handle such allocation.
      
      On my usual desktop system with whole 9 (nine) aux groups, struct
      group_info shrinks from 148 bytes to 44 bytes, yay!
      
      Nice side effects:
      
       - "gi->gid[i]" is shorter than "GROUP_AT(gi, i)", less typing,
      
       - fix little mess in net/ipv4/ping.c
         should have been using GROUP_AT macro but this point becomes moot,
      
       - aux group allocation is persistent and should be accounted as such.
      
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160817201927.GA2096@p183.telecom.by
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Vasily Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      81243eac
  12. Apr 15, 2015
    • Iulia Manda's avatar
      kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities · 2813893f
      Iulia Manda authored
      
      There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
      functionality in init, running as root:root.  For these systems,
      supporting multiple users is not necessary.
      
      This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
      non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional.  It is enabled
      under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.
      
      When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
      and processes always have all capabilities.
      
      The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
      setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
      getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.
      
      Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.
      
      In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
      adding two ifdef blocks.
      
      This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build.  The most minimal
      kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
      low MB.  (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.
      
      The kernel was booted in Qemu.  All the common functionalities work.
      Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.
      
      Bloat-o-meter output:
      add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)
      
      [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
      Signed-off-by: default avatarIulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      Tested-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      2813893f
  13. Dec 09, 2014
  14. Dec 05, 2014
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      groups: Consolidate the setgroups permission checks · 7ff4d90b
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      Today there are 3 instances of setgroups and due to an oversight their
      permission checking has diverged.  Add a common function so that
      they may all share the same permission checking code.
      
      This corrects the current oversight in the current permission checks
      and adds a helper to avoid this in the future.
      
      A user namespace security fix will update this new helper, shortly.
      
      Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      7ff4d90b
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