linux_dsm_epyc7002/arch/sparc
David Herrmann 28b5ba2aa0 net: introduce SO_PEERGROUPS getsockopt
This adds the new getsockopt(2) option SO_PEERGROUPS on SOL_SOCKET to
retrieve the auxiliary groups of the remote peer. It is designed to
naturally extend SO_PEERCRED. That is, the underlying data is from the
same credentials. Regarding its syntax, it is based on SO_PEERSEC. That
is, if the provided buffer is too small, ERANGE is returned and @optlen
is updated. Otherwise, the information is copied, @optlen is set to the
actual size, and 0 is returned.

While SO_PEERCRED (and thus `struct ucred') already returns the primary
group, it lacks the auxiliary group vector. However, nearly all access
controls (including kernel side VFS and SYSVIPC, but also user-space
polkit, DBus, ...) consider the entire set of groups, rather than just
the primary group. But this is currently not possible with pure
SO_PEERCRED. Instead, user-space has to work around this and query the
system database for the auxiliary groups of a UID retrieved via
SO_PEERCRED.

Unfortunately, there is no race-free way to query the auxiliary groups
of the PID/UID retrieved via SO_PEERCRED. Hence, the current user-space
solution is to use getgrouplist(3p), which itself falls back to NSS and
whatever is configured in nsswitch.conf(3). This effectively checks
which groups we *would* assign to the user if it logged in *now*. On
normal systems it is as easy as reading /etc/group, but with NSS it can
resort to quering network databases (eg., LDAP), using IPC or network
communication.

Long story short: Whenever we want to use auxiliary groups for access
checks on IPC, we need further IPC to talk to the user/group databases,
rather than just relying on SO_PEERCRED and the incoming socket. This
is unfortunate, and might even result in dead-locks if the database
query uses the same IPC as the original request.

So far, those recursions / dead-locks have been avoided by using
primitive IPC for all crucial NSS modules. However, we want to avoid
re-inventing the wheel for each NSS module that might be involved in
user/group queries. Hence, we would preferably make DBus (and other IPC
that supports access-management based on groups) work without resorting
to the user/group database. This new SO_PEERGROUPS ioctl would allow us
to make dbus-daemon work without ever calling into NSS.

Cc: Michal Sekletar <msekleta@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon McVittie <simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-06-21 11:38:41 -04:00
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boot sparc: Add "install" target 2014-08-04 20:45:59 -07:00
configs sparc64:Support User Probes for sparc 2016-12-11 18:01:51 -08:00
crypto crypto: sparc - initialize blkcipher.ivsize 2015-10-08 21:36:48 +08:00
include net: introduce SO_PEERGROUPS getsockopt 2017-06-21 11:38:41 -04:00
kernel sparc64: delete old wrap code 2017-06-06 13:45:29 -07:00
lib sparc64: Add __multi3 for gcc 7.x and later. 2017-06-05 11:30:33 -07:00
math-emu Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
mm sparc64: delete old wrap code 2017-06-06 13:45:29 -07:00
net bpf: Add jited_len to struct bpf_prog 2017-06-06 15:41:24 -04:00
oprofile sparc: using HZ needs an include of linux/param.h 2009-10-05 00:46:08 -07:00
power Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc 2014-10-11 20:36:34 -04:00
prom sparc: fixing ident and beautifying code 2016-10-06 01:46:40 -04:00
Kbuild sparc64: Add SHA1 driver making use of the 'sha1' instruction. 2012-08-20 15:08:49 -07:00
Kconfig security/keys: add CONFIG_KEYS_COMPAT to Kconfig 2017-06-09 13:29:45 +10:00
Kconfig.debug lib: consolidate DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option 2011-05-25 08:39:54 -07:00
Makefile sparc32: Add -Wa,-Av8 to KBUILD_CFLAGS. 2016-03-01 00:24:04 -05:00