[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] pseudo: handle fchmodat better, mask out unwanted write bits

Saul Wold sgw at linux.intel.com
Wed May 21 15:14:14 UTC 2014


On 05/19/2014 02:51 PM, Peter Seebach wrote:
> It turns out that pseudo's decision not to report errors from
> the host system's fchmodat() can break GNU tar in a very strange
> way, resulting in directories being mode 0700 instead of whatever
> they should have been.
>
> Additionally, it turns out that if you make directories in your
> rootfs mode 777, that results in the local copies being mode 777,
> which could allow a hypothetical attacker with access to the
> machine to add files to your rootfs image. We should mask out
> the 022 bits when making actual mode changes in the rootfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach at windriver.com>
> ---
>   .../pseudo/files/pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch |   98 ++++++++++++++++++++
>   meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.5.1.bb       |    3 +-
>   2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/files/pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch
>
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/files/pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/files/pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..74a409c
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/files/pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
> +commit 5a6f2896ed44029ced2a33ac64c962737c5171a0
> +Author: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach at windriver.com>
> +Date:   Fri May 16 15:53:06 2014 -0500
> +
> +    permissions updates: improve fchmodat, mask out write bits
> +
> +    Backport from pseudo 1.6 of improvements to fchmodat (handle
> +    AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW by rejecting it if the host system does,
> +    to make GNU tar happier), also mask out write bits from filesystem
> +    modes to avoid security problems.
> +
Peter, I know it says Backport above, but can you please add an 
Upstream-Status: tag to this .patch file.

Also, do you have plans to do a 1.6 update for OE-Core soon?

Thanks
	Sau!


> +diff --git a/ChangeLog.txt b/ChangeLog.txt
> +index 113f675..fab1033 100644
> +--- a/ChangeLog.txt
> ++++ b/ChangeLog.txt
> +@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
> ++2014-05-16:
> ++	* (seebs) fchmodat: don't drop flags, report failures, to improve
> ++	  compatibility/consistency. Cache the knowledge that
> ++	  AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW gets ENOTSUP.
> ++	* (seebs) mask out group/other write bits in real filesystem to
> ++	  reduce risks when assembling a rootfs including world-writeable
> ++	  directories.
> ++
> ++2014-05-15:
> ++	* (seebs) drop flags when calling fchmodat() to appease GNU tar.
> ++
> + 2013-02-27:
> + 	* (seebs) Oh, hey, what if I took out my debug messages?
> + 	* (seebs) update docs a bit to reduce bitrot
> +diff --git a/ports/unix/guts/fchmodat.c b/ports/unix/guts/fchmodat.c
> +index 59a92ce..69a953c 100644
> +--- a/ports/unix/guts/fchmodat.c
> ++++ b/ports/unix/guts/fchmodat.c
> +@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
> +  */
> + 	PSEUDO_STATBUF buf;
> + 	int save_errno = errno;
> ++	static int picky_fchmodat = 0;
> +
> + #ifdef PSEUDO_NO_REAL_AT_FUNCTIONS
> + 	if (dirfd != AT_FDCWD) {
> +@@ -15,6 +16,16 @@
> + 		return -1;
> + 	}
> + 	if (flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) {
> ++		/* Linux, as of this writing, will always reject this.
> ++		 * GNU tar relies on getting the rejection. To cut down
> ++		 * on traffic, we check for the failure, and if we saw
> ++		 * a failure previously, we reject it right away and tell
> ++		 * the caller to retry.
> ++		 */
> ++		if (picky_fchmodat) {
> ++			errno = ENOTSUP;
> ++			return -1;
> ++		}
> + 		rc = base_lstat(path, &buf);
> + 	} else {
> + 		rc = base_stat(path, &buf);
> +@@ -50,13 +61,22 @@
> +
> + 	/* user bits added so "root" can always access files. */
> + #ifdef PSEUDO_NO_REAL_AT_FUNCTIONS
> +-	/* note:  if path was a symlink, and AT_NOFOLLOW_SYMLINKS was
> ++	/* note:  if path was a symlink, and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW was
> + 	 * specified, we already bailed previously. */
> + 	real_chmod(path, PSEUDO_FS_MODE(mode, S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)));
> + #else
> +-	real_fchmodat(dirfd, path, PSEUDO_FS_MODE(mode, S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)), flags);
> ++	rc = real_fchmodat(dirfd, path, PSEUDO_FS_MODE(mode, S_ISDIR(buf.st_mode)), flags);
> ++	/* AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW isn't supported by fchmodat. GNU tar
> ++	 * tries to use it anyway, figuring it can just retry if that
> ++	 * fails. So we want to report that *particular* failure instead
> ++	 * of doing the fallback.
> ++	 */
> ++	if (rc == -1 && errno == ENOTSUP && (flags & AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)) {
> ++		picky_fchmodat = 1;
> ++		return -1;
> ++	}
> + #endif
> +-	/* we ignore a failure from underlying fchmod, because pseudo
> ++	/* we otherwise ignore failures from underlying fchmod, because pseudo
> + 	 * may believe you are permitted to change modes that the filesystem
> + 	 * doesn't. Note that we also don't need to know whether the
> +          * file might be a (pseudo) block device or some such; pseudo
> +diff --git a/pseudo_client.h b/pseudo_client.h
> +index f36a772..ecb13a6 100644
> +--- a/pseudo_client.h
> ++++ b/pseudo_client.h
> +@@ -85,6 +85,6 @@ extern int pseudo_nosymlinkexp;
> +  * None of this will behave very sensibly if umask has 0700 bits in it;
> +  * this is a known limitation.
> +  */
> +-#define PSEUDO_FS_MODE(mode, isdir) ((mode) | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | ((isdir) ? S_IXUSR : 0))
> +-#define PSEUDO_DB_MODE(fs_mode, user_mode) (((fs_mode) & ~0700) | ((user_mode & 0700)))
> ++#define PSEUDO_FS_MODE(mode, isdir) ((((mode) | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | ((isdir) ? S_IXUSR : 0)) & ~(S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH)) & ~(S_IWOTH | S_IWGRP))
> ++#define PSEUDO_DB_MODE(fs_mode, user_mode) (((fs_mode) & ~0722) | ((user_mode & 0722)))
> +
> diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.5.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.5.1.bb
> index 215cdb8..47291fd 100644
> --- a/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.5.1.bb
> +++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_1.5.1.bb
> @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
>   require pseudo.inc
>
> -PR = "r4"
> +PR = "r5"
>
>   SRC_URI = " \
>       http://www.yoctoproject.org/downloads/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
>       file://0001-pseudo_has_unload-add-function.patch \
>       file://shutdownping.patch \
>       file://pseudo-1.5.1-install-directory-mode.patch \
> +    file://pseudo-fchmodat-permissions.patch \
>   "
>
>   SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5ec67c7bff5fe68c56de500859c19172"
>



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