userns: Don't allow setgroups until a gid mapping has been setablished

setgroups is unique in not needing a valid mapping before it can be called,
in the case of setgroups(0, NULL) which drops all supplemental groups.

The design of the user namespace assumes that CAP_SETGID can not actually
be used until a gid mapping is established.  Therefore add a helper function
to see if the user namespace gid mapping has been established and call
that function in the setgroups permission check.

This is part of the fix for CVE-2014-8989, being able to drop groups
without privilege using user namespaces.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user_namespace.c b/kernel/user_namespace.c
index b99c862..27c8dab 100644
--- a/kernel/user_namespace.c
+++ b/kernel/user_namespace.c
@@ -843,6 +843,20 @@ static bool new_idmap_permitted(const struct file *file,
 	return false;
 }
 
+bool userns_may_setgroups(const struct user_namespace *ns)
+{
+	bool allowed;
+
+	mutex_lock(&id_map_mutex);
+	/* It is not safe to use setgroups until a gid mapping in
+	 * the user namespace has been established.
+	 */
+	allowed = ns->gid_map.nr_extents != 0;
+	mutex_unlock(&id_map_mutex);
+
+	return allowed;
+}
+
 static void *userns_get(struct task_struct *task)
 {
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns;