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cgroup-v1: Require capabilities to set release_agent

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The cgroup release_agent is called with call_usermodehelper.  The function
call_usermodehelper starts the release_agent with a full set fo capabilities.
Therefore require capabilities when setting the release_agaent.

Reported-by: Tabitha Sable <tabitha.c.sable@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Tabitha Sable <tabitha.c.sable@gmail.com>
Fixes: 81a6a5cdd2 ("Task Control Groups: automatic userspace notification of idle cgroups")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.24+
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Eric W. Biederman 2022-01-20 11:04:01 -06:00 committed by Tejun Heo
parent c80d401c52
commit 24f6008564
1 changed files with 14 additions and 0 deletions
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kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c
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@ -549,6 +549,14 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_release_agent_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(cgrp->root->release_agent_path) < PATH_MAX);
/*
* Release agent gets called with all capabilities,
* require capabilities to set release agent.
*/
if ((of->file->f_cred->user_ns != &init_user_ns) ||
!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return -EPERM;
cgrp = cgroup_kn_lock_live(of->kn, false);
if (!cgrp)
return -ENODEV;
@ -954,6 +962,12 @@ int cgroup1_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
/* Specifying two release agents is forbidden */
if (ctx->release_agent)
return invalfc(fc, "release_agent respecified");
/*
* Release agent gets called with all capabilities,
* require capabilities to set release agent.
*/
if ((fc->user_ns != &init_user_ns) || !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
return invalfc(fc, "Setting release_agent not allowed");
ctx->release_agent = param->string;
param->string = NULL;
break;