A full expalantion of io_uring is beyond the scope of this commit description, but in summary it is an asynchronous I/O mechanism which allows for I/O requests and the resulting data to be queued in memory mapped "rings" which are shared between the kernel and userspace. Optionally, io_uring offers the ability for applications to spawn kernel threads to dequeue I/O requests from the ring and submit the requests in the kernel, helping to minimize the syscall overhead. Rings are accessed in userspace by memory mapping a file descriptor provided by the io_uring_setup(2), and can be shared between applications as one might do with any open file descriptor. Finally, process credentials can be registered with a given ring and any process with access to that ring can submit I/O requests using any of the registered credentials.
While the io_uring functionality is widely recognized as offering a vastly improved, and high performing asynchronous I/O mechanism, its ability to allow processes to submit I/O requests with credentials other than its own presents a challenge to LSMs. When a process creates a new io_uring ring the ring's credentials are inhertied from the calling process; if this ring is shared with another process operating with different credentials there is the potential to bypass the LSMs security policy. Similarly, registering credentials with a given ring allows any process with access to that ring to submit I/O requests with those credentials. In an effort to allow LSMs to apply security policy to io_uring I/O operations, this patch adds two new LSM hooks. These hooks, in conjunction with the LSM anonymous inode support previously submitted, allow an LSM to apply access control policy to the sharing of io_uring rings as well as any io_uring credential changes requested by a process. The new LSM hooks are described below: * int security_uring_override_creds(cred) Controls if the current task, executing an io_uring operation, is allowed to override it's credentials with @cred. In cases where the current task is a user application, the current credentials will be those of the user application. In cases where the current task is a kernel thread servicing io_uring requests the current credentials will be those of the io_uring ring (inherited from the process that created the ring). * int security_uring_sqpoll(void) Controls if the current task is allowed to create an io_uring polling thread (IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL). Without a SQPOLL thread in the kernel processes must submit I/O requests via io_uring_enter(2) which allows us to compare any requested credential changes against the application making the request. With a SQPOLL thread, we can no longer compare requested credential changes against the application making the request, the comparison is made against the ring's credentials. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <p...@paul-moore.com> --- v4: - no change v3: - removed work-in-progress warning from the description v2: - no change v1: - initial draft --- fs/io_uring.c | 10 ++++++++++ include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 5 +++++ include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 13 +++++++++++++ include/linux/security.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++ security/security.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 56 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c index 56cc9aba0d01..f89d00af3a67 100644 --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ #include <linux/io_uring.h> #include <linux/tracehook.h> #include <linux/audit.h> +#include <linux/security.h> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS #include <trace/events/io_uring.h> @@ -7070,6 +7071,11 @@ static int io_init_req(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_kiocb *req, if (!req->creds) return -EINVAL; get_cred(req->creds); + ret = security_uring_override_creds(req->creds); + if (ret) { + put_cred(req->creds); + return ret; + } req->flags |= REQ_F_CREDS; } state = &ctx->submit_state; @@ -8566,6 +8572,10 @@ static int io_sq_offload_create(struct io_ring_ctx *ctx, struct io_sq_data *sqd; bool attached; + ret = security_uring_sqpoll(); + if (ret) + return ret; + sqd = io_get_sq_data(p, &attached); if (IS_ERR(sqd)) { ret = PTR_ERR(sqd); diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h index 2adeea44c0d5..b3c525353769 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h @@ -402,3 +402,8 @@ LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, perf_event_free, struct perf_event *event) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, perf_event_read, struct perf_event *event) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, perf_event_write, struct perf_event *event) #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_IO_URING +LSM_HOOK(int, 0, uring_override_creds, const struct cred *new) +LSM_HOOK(int, 0, uring_sqpoll, void) +#endif /* CONFIG_IO_URING */ diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h index 5c4c5c0602cb..0eb0ae95c4c4 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h @@ -1557,6 +1557,19 @@ * Read perf_event security info if allowed. * @perf_event_write: * Write perf_event security info if allowed. + * + * Security hooks for io_uring + * + * @uring_override_creds: + * Check if the current task, executing an io_uring operation, is allowed + * to override it's credentials with @new. + * + * @new: the new creds to use + * + * @uring_sqpoll: + * Check whether the current task is allowed to spawn a io_uring polling + * thread (IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL). + * */ union security_list_options { #define LSM_HOOK(RET, DEFAULT, NAME, ...) RET (*NAME)(__VA_ARGS__); diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 5b7288521300..7979b9629a42 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -2038,4 +2038,20 @@ static inline int security_perf_event_write(struct perf_event *event) #endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY */ #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */ +#ifdef CONFIG_IO_URING +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY +extern int security_uring_override_creds(const struct cred *new); +extern int security_uring_sqpoll(void); +#else +static inline int security_uring_override_creds(const struct cred *new) +{ + return 0; +} +static inline int security_uring_sqpoll(void) +{ + return 0; +} +#endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY */ +#endif /* CONFIG_IO_URING */ + #endif /* ! __LINUX_SECURITY_H */ diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 9ffa9e9c5c55..c49a2c0cc1c1 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -2625,3 +2625,15 @@ int security_perf_event_write(struct perf_event *event) return call_int_hook(perf_event_write, 0, event); } #endif /* CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_IO_URING +int security_uring_override_creds(const struct cred *new) +{ + return call_int_hook(uring_override_creds, 0, new); +} + +int security_uring_sqpoll(void) +{ + return call_int_hook(uring_sqpoll, 0); +} +#endif /* CONFIG_IO_URING */ -- Linux-audit mailing list Linux-audit@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit