mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 90% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: do file ownership checks with the proper mount idmap
Ever since idmapped mounts were introduced, inode ownership checks (for
side-channel protection) in mincore() and madvise(MADV_PAGEOUT) were done
against the nop_mnt_idmap, which completely ignores the file's mount's
idmap. This results in odd edgecases like:
1) mount/bind-mount with an idmap userA:userB:1
2) userB runs an owner_or_capable() check on file that is owned by userA
on-disk/in-memory, but owned by userB after idmap translation
3) owner_or_capable() mysteriously fails as the correct idmap wasn't supplied
In the case of mincore/madvise MADV_PAGEOUT, this is usually benign,
because file_permission(file, MAY_WRITE) will probably succeed, as it uses
the proper idmap internally, but it does not need to be the case on e.g a
0444 file where even the owner itself doesn't have permissions to write to
it.
Since this is clearly not trivial to get right, introduce a
file_owner_or_capable() that can carry the correct semantics, and switch
the various users in mm to it.
The issue was found by manual code inspection & an off-list discussion
with Jan Kara.
Affected products
Linux · LinuxReferences
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04ba248d02d9eaa3d9077b00a6134caa75fa3e90https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c942ad7df75925ee166e7f0fb36892d8dde376bhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/744b23aa430d52f5c8e4dbff7d71496d6643bed2https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8344bdf0629457e532797b42d9d2bbf2a2900bbfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e187bc02f8fa4226d62814592cf064ee4557c470