Merge tag 'cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull checkpoint-restore updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This enables unprivileged checkpoint/restore of processes.

  Given that this work has been going on for quite some time the first
  sentence in this summary is hopefully more exciting than the actual
  final code changes required. Unprivileged checkpoint/restore has seen
  a frequent increase in interest over the last two years and has thus
  been one of the main topics for the combined containers &
  checkpoint/restore microconference since at least 2018 (cf. [1]).

  Here are just the three most frequent use-cases that were brought forward:

   - The JVM developers are integrating checkpoint/restore into a Java
     VM to significantly decrease the startup time.

   - In high-performance computing environment a resource manager will
     typically be distributing jobs where users are always running as
     non-root. Long-running and "large" processes with significant
     startup times are supposed to be checkpointed and restored with
     CRIU.

   - Container migration as a non-root user.

  In all of these scenarios it is either desirable or required to run
  without CAP_SYS_ADMIN. The userspace implementation of
  checkpoint/restore CRIU already has the pull request for supporting
  unprivileged checkpoint/restore up (cf. [2]).

  To enable unprivileged checkpoint/restore a new dedicated capability
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE is introduced. This solution has last been
  discussed in 2019 in a talk by Google at Linux Plumbers (cf. [1]
  "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU") with Adrian and
  Nicolas providing the implementation now over the last months. In
  essence, this allows the CRIU binary to be installed with the
  CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE vfs capability set thereby enabling
  unprivileged users to restore processes.

  To make this possible the following permissions are altered:

   - Selecting a specific PID via clone3() set_tid relaxed from userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Selecting a specific PID via /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid relaxed
     from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Accessing /proc/pid/map_files relaxed from init userns
     CAP_SYS_ADMIN to init userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

   - Changing /proc/self/exe from userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns
     CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  Of these four changes the /proc/self/exe change deserves a few words
  because the reasoning behind even restricting /proc/self/exe changes
  in the first place is just full of historical quirks and tracking this
  down was a questionable version of fun that I'd like to spare others.

  In short, it is trivial to change /proc/self/exe as an unprivileged
  user, i.e. without userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN right now. Either via ptrace()
  or by simply intercepting the elf loader in userspace during exec.
  Nicolas was nice enough to even provide a POC for the latter (cf. [3])
  to illustrate this fact.

  The original patchset which introduced PR_SET_MM_MAP had no
  permissions around changing the exe link. They too argued that it is
  trivial to spoof the exe link already which is true. The argument
  brought up against this was that the Tomoyo LSM uses the exe link in
  tomoyo_manager() to detect whether the calling process is a policy
  manager. This caused changing the exe links to be guarded by userns
  CAP_SYS_ADMIN.

  All in all this rather seems like a "better guard it with something
  rather than nothing" argument which imho doesn't qualify as a great
  security policy. Again, because spoofing the exe link is possible for
  the calling process so even if this were security relevant it was
  broken back then and would be broken today. So technically, dropping
  all permissions around changing the exe link would probably be
  possible and would send a clearer message to any userspace that relies
  on /proc/self/exe for security reasons that they should stop doing
  this but for now we're only relaxing the exe link permissions from
  userns CAP_SYS_ADMIN to userns CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE.

  There's a final uapi change in here. Changing the exe link used to
  accidently return EINVAL when the caller lacked the necessary
  permissions instead of the more correct EPERM. This pr contains a
  commit fixing this. I assume that userspace won't notice or care and
  if they do I will revert this commit. But since we are changing the
  permissions anyway it seems like a good opportunity to try this fix.

  With these changes merged unprivileged checkpoint/restore will be
  possible and has already been tested by various users"

[1] LPC 2018
     1. "Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&t=12095
     2. "Securely Migrating Untrusted Workloads with CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_1cuhoDgA&t=14400
     LPC 2019
     1. "CRIU and the PID dance"
         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&index=9&t=2m48s
     2. "Update on Task Migration at Google Using CRIU"
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN2CUgp8deo&list=PLVsQ_xZBEyN30ZA3Pc9MZMFzdjwyz26dO&index=9&t=1h2m8s

[2] https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/pull/1155

[3] https://github.com/nviennot/run_as_exe

* tag 'cap-checkpoint-restore-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  selftests: add clone3() CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE test
  prctl: exe link permission error changed from -EINVAL to -EPERM
  prctl: Allow local CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to change /proc/self/exe
  proc: allow access in init userns for map_files with CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
  pid_namespace: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for ns_last_pid
  pid: use checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() for set_tid
  capabilities: Introduce CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index d86c0afc8a85..a333caeca291 100644
--- a/fs/proc/base.c
+++ b/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -2189,16 +2189,16 @@ struct map_files_info {
 };
 
 /*
- * Only allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN to follow the links, due to concerns about how the
- * symlinks may be used to bypass permissions on ancestor directories in the
- * path to the file in question.
+ * Only allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN and CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE to follow the links, due
+ * to concerns about how the symlinks may be used to bypass permissions on
+ * ancestor directories in the path to the file in question.
  */
 static const char *
 proc_map_files_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
 			struct inode *inode,
 		        struct delayed_call *done)
 {
-	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (!checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(&init_user_ns))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 
 	return proc_pid_get_link(dentry, inode, done);