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[v12,11/12] open: openat2(2) syscall

Message ID 20190904201933.10736-12-cyphar@cyphar.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series namei: openat2(2) path resolution restrictions | expand

Commit Message

Aleksa Sarai Sept. 4, 2019, 8:19 p.m. UTC
The most obvious syscall to add support for the new LOOKUP_* scoping
flags would be openat(2). However, there are a few reasons why this is
not the best course of action:

 * The new LOOKUP_* flags are intended to be security features, and
   openat(2) will silently ignore all unknown flags. This means that
   users would need to avoid foot-gunning themselves constantly when
   using this interface if it were part of openat(2). This can be fixed
   by having userspace libraries handle this for users[1], but should be
   avoided if possible.

 * Resolution scoping feels like a different operation to the existing
   O_* flags. And since openat(2) has limited flag space, it seems to be
   quite wasteful to clutter it with 5 flags that are all
   resolution-related. Arguably O_NOFOLLOW is also a resolution flag but
   its entire purpose is to error out if you encounter a trailing
   symlink -- not to scope resolution.

 * Other systems would be able to reimplement this syscall allowing for
   cross-OS standardisation rather than being hidden amongst O_* flags
   which may result in it not being used by all the parties that might
   want to use it (file servers, web servers, container runtimes, etc).

 * It gives us the opportunity to iterate on the O_PATH interface. In
   particular, the new @how->upgrade_mask field for fd re-opening is
   only possible because we have a clean slate without needing to re-use
   the ACC_MODE flag design nor the existing openat(2) @mode semantics.

To this end, we introduce the openat2(2) syscall. It provides all of the
features of openat(2) through the @how->flags argument, but also
also provides a new @how->resolve argument which exposes RESOLVE_* flags
that map to our new LOOKUP_* flags. It also eliminates the long-standing
ugliness of variadic-open(2) by embedding it in a struct.

In order to allow for userspace to lock down their usage of file
descriptor re-opening, openat2(2) has the ability for users to disallow
certain re-opening modes through @how->upgrade_mask. At the moment,
there is no UPGRADE_NOEXEC.

[1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/libpathrs

Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |  1 +
 arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl                  |  1 +
 arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h             |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h           |  2 +
 arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
 arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl |  1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl   |  1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl   |  1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl   |  1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |  1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl    |  1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
 arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl         |  1 +
 arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |  1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl      |  1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl      |  1 +
 arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |  1 +
 fs/open.c                                   | 94 ++++++++++++++++-----
 include/linux/fcntl.h                       | 19 ++++-
 include/linux/fs.h                          |  4 +-
 include/linux/syscalls.h                    | 14 ++-
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h           |  5 +-
 include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h                  | 42 +++++++++
 24 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Comments

Randy Dunlap Sept. 4, 2019, 9 p.m. UTC | #1
Hi,
just noisy nits here:

On 9/4/19 1:19 PM, Aleksa Sarai wrote:

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> index 1d338357df8a..479baf2da10e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> @@ -93,5 +93,47 @@
>  
>  #define AT_RECURSIVE		0x8000	/* Apply to the entire subtree */
>  
> +/**

/** means "the following is kernel-doc", but it's not, so please either make
it kernel-doc format or just use /* to begin the comment.

> + * Arguments for how openat2(2) should open the target path. If @resolve is
> + * zero, then openat2(2) operates identically to openat(2).
> + *
> + * However, unlike openat(2), unknown bits in @flags result in -EINVAL rather
> + * than being silently ignored. In addition, @mode (or @upgrade_mask) must be
> + * zero unless one of {O_CREAT, O_TMPFILE, O_PATH} are set.
> + *
> + * @flags: O_* flags.
> + * @mode: O_CREAT/O_TMPFILE file mode.
> + * @upgrade_mask: UPGRADE_* flags (to restrict O_PATH re-opening).
> + * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags.
> + */
> +struct open_how {
> +	__u32 flags;
> +	union {
> +		__u16 mode;
> +		__u16 upgrade_mask;
> +	};
> +	__u16 resolve;
> +};
Jeff Layton Sept. 7, 2019, 12:40 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 06:19 +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> The most obvious syscall to add support for the new LOOKUP_* scoping
> flags would be openat(2). However, there are a few reasons why this is
> not the best course of action:
> 
>  * The new LOOKUP_* flags are intended to be security features, and
>    openat(2) will silently ignore all unknown flags. This means that
>    users would need to avoid foot-gunning themselves constantly when
>    using this interface if it were part of openat(2). This can be fixed
>    by having userspace libraries handle this for users[1], but should be
>    avoided if possible.
> 
>  * Resolution scoping feels like a different operation to the existing
>    O_* flags. And since openat(2) has limited flag space, it seems to be
>    quite wasteful to clutter it with 5 flags that are all
>    resolution-related. Arguably O_NOFOLLOW is also a resolution flag but
>    its entire purpose is to error out if you encounter a trailing
>    symlink -- not to scope resolution.
> 
>  * Other systems would be able to reimplement this syscall allowing for
>    cross-OS standardisation rather than being hidden amongst O_* flags
>    which may result in it not being used by all the parties that might
>    want to use it (file servers, web servers, container runtimes, etc).
> 
>  * It gives us the opportunity to iterate on the O_PATH interface. In
>    particular, the new @how->upgrade_mask field for fd re-opening is
>    only possible because we have a clean slate without needing to re-use
>    the ACC_MODE flag design nor the existing openat(2) @mode semantics.
> 
> To this end, we introduce the openat2(2) syscall. It provides all of the
> features of openat(2) through the @how->flags argument, but also
> also provides a new @how->resolve argument which exposes RESOLVE_* flags
> that map to our new LOOKUP_* flags. It also eliminates the long-standing
> ugliness of variadic-open(2) by embedding it in a struct.
> 
> In order to allow for userspace to lock down their usage of file
> descriptor re-opening, openat2(2) has the ability for users to disallow
> certain re-opening modes through @how->upgrade_mask. At the moment,
> there is no UPGRADE_NOEXEC.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/openSUSE/libpathrs
> 
> Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |  1 +
>  arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl                  |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h             |  2 +-
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h           |  2 +
>  arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
>  arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
>  arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl |  1 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl   |  1 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl   |  1 +
>  arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl   |  1 +
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |  1 +
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl    |  1 +
>  arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |  1 +
>  arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl         |  1 +
>  arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |  1 +
>  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl      |  1 +
>  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl      |  1 +
>  arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |  1 +
>  fs/open.c                                   | 94 ++++++++++++++++-----
>  include/linux/fcntl.h                       | 19 ++++-
>  include/linux/fs.h                          |  4 +-
>  include/linux/syscalls.h                    | 14 ++-
>  include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h           |  5 +-
>  include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h                  | 42 +++++++++
>  24 files changed, 168 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
> 

[...]

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> index 1d338357df8a..479baf2da10e 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
> @@ -93,5 +93,47 @@
>  
>  #define AT_RECURSIVE		0x8000	/* Apply to the entire subtree */
>  
> +/**
> + * Arguments for how openat2(2) should open the target path. If @resolve is
> + * zero, then openat2(2) operates identically to openat(2).
> + *
> + * However, unlike openat(2), unknown bits in @flags result in -EINVAL rather
> + * than being silently ignored. In addition, @mode (or @upgrade_mask) must be
> + * zero unless one of {O_CREAT, O_TMPFILE, O_PATH} are set.
> + *

After thinking about this a bit, I wonder if we might be better served
with a new set of OA2_* flags instead of repurposing the O_* flags?

Yes, those flags are familiar, but this is an entirely new syscall. We
have a chance to make a fresh start. Does something like O_LARGEFILE
have any real place in openat2? I'd argue no.

Also, once you want to add a new flag, then we get into the mess of how
to document whether open/openat also support it. It'd be good to freeze
changes on those syscalls and aim to only introduce new functionality in
openat2.

That would also allow us to drop some flags from openat2 that we really
don't need, and maybe expand the flag space to 64 bits initially, to
allow for expansion into the future.

Thoughts?

> + * @flags: O_* flags.
> + * @mode: O_CREAT/O_TMPFILE file mode.
> + * @upgrade_mask: UPGRADE_* flags (to restrict O_PATH re-opening).
> + * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags.
> + */
> +struct open_how {
> +	__u32 flags;
> +	union {
> +		__u16 mode;
> +		__u16 upgrade_mask;
> +	};
> +	__u16 resolve;
> +};
> +
> +#define OPEN_HOW_SIZE_VER0	8 /* sizeof first published struct */
> +

Hmm, there is no version field. When you want to expand this in the
future, what is the plan? Add a new flag to indicate that it's some
length?


> +/* how->resolve flags for openat2(2). */
> +#define RESOLVE_NO_XDEV		0x01 /* Block mount-point crossings
> +					(includes bind-mounts). */
> +#define RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS	0x02 /* Block traversal through procfs-style
> +					"magic-links". */
> +#define RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS	0x04 /* Block traversal through all symlinks
> +					(implies OEXT_NO_MAGICLINKS) */
> +#define RESOLVE_BENEATH		0x08 /* Block "lexical" trickery like
> +					"..", symlinks, and absolute
> +					paths which escape the dirfd. */
> +#define RESOLVE_IN_ROOT		0x10 /* Make all jumps to "/" and ".."
> +					be scoped inside the dirfd
> +					(similar to chroot(2)). */
> +
> +/* how->upgrade flags for openat2(2). */
> +/* First bit is reserved for a future UPGRADE_NOEXEC flag. */
> +#define UPGRADE_NOREAD		0x02 /* Block re-opening with MAY_READ. */
> +#define UPGRADE_NOWRITE		0x04 /* Block re-opening with MAY_WRITE. */
>  
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FCNTL_H */
Linus Torvalds Sept. 7, 2019, 4:58 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 5:40 AM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> After thinking about this a bit, I wonder if we might be better served
> with a new set of OA2_* flags instead of repurposing the O_* flags?

I'd hate to have yet _another_ set of translation functions, and
another chance of people just getting it wrong either in user space or
the kernel.

So no. Let's not make another set of flags that has no sane way to
have type-safety to avoid more confusion.

The new flags that _only_ work with openat2() might be named with a
prefix/suffix to mark that, but I'm not sure it's a huge deal.

                 Linus
Andy Lutomirski Sept. 7, 2019, 5:42 p.m. UTC | #4
> On Sep 7, 2019, at 9:58 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 5:40 AM Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
>> 
>> After thinking about this a bit, I wonder if we might be better served
>> with a new set of OA2_* flags instead of repurposing the O_* flags?
> 
> I'd hate to have yet _another_ set of translation functions, and
> another chance of people just getting it wrong either in user space or
> the kernel.
> 
> So no. Let's not make another set of flags that has no sane way to
> have type-safety to avoid more confusion.
> 
> The new flags that _only_ work with openat2() might be named with a
> prefix/suffix to mark that, but I'm not sure it's a huge deal.
> 
>            

I agree with the philosophy, but I think it doesn’t apply in this case.  Here are the flags:

O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR: not even a proper bitmask. The kernel already has the FMODE_ bits to make this make sense. How about we make the openat2 permission bits consistent with the internal representation and let the O_ permission bits remain as an awful translation.  The kernel already translates like this, and it already sucks.

O_CREAT, O_TMPFILE, O_NOCTTY, O_TRUNC: not modes on the fd at all.  These affect the meaning of open().  Heck, for openat2, NOCTTY should be this default.

O_EXCL: hopelessly overloaded.

O_APPEND, O_DIRECT, O_SYNC, O_DSYNC, O_LARGEFILE, O_NOATIME, O_PATH, O_NONBLOCK: genuine mode bits

O_CLOEXEC: special because it affects the fd, not the struct file.

Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API that people would use and that might even be adopted by other OSes. Let’s please not make openat2() be a giant pile of crap in the name of consistency with open().  open(), frankly, is horrible.
Linus Torvalds Sept. 7, 2019, 5:45 p.m. UTC | #5
On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>
> Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API

No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage
API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).

We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as
well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we
have code to support _anyway_.

Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users -
more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going
to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.

                 Linus
Andy Lutomirski Sept. 7, 2019, 6:15 p.m. UTC | #6
> On Sep 7, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API
> 
> No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage
> API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).
> 
> We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as
> well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we
> have code to support _anyway_.
> 
> Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users -
> more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going
> to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.
> 
> 

If we keep all the flag bits in the same mask with the same values, then we’re stuck with O_RDONLY=0 and everything that implies.  We’ll have UPGRADE_READ that works differently from the missing plain-old-READ bit, and we can’t express execute-only-no-read-or-write. This sucks.

Can we at least split the permission bits into their own mask and make bits 0 and 1 illegal in the main set of flags in openat2?

There’s another thread going on right now about adding a bit along the lines of “MAYEXEC”, and one of the conclusions was that it should wait for openat2 so that it can have same semantics. If we’re stuck with O_RDONLY and friends, then MAYEXEC is doomed to being at least a bit nonsensical.

As an analogy, AMD64 introduced bigger PTEs but kept the same nonsense encoding of read and write permission. And then we got NX, and now we’re getting little holes in the encoding stolen by CET to mean new silly things.  I don’t know if you’ve been following the various rounds of patches, but it is truly horrible. The mapping from meaning to the actual bits is *shit*, and AMD64 should have made a clean break instead.

open()’s permission bits are basically the same situation. And the kernel *already* has a non-type-safe translation layer. Please, please let openat2() at least get rid of the turd in open()’s bits 0 and 1.
Aleksa Sarai Sept. 8, 2019, 4:24 p.m. UTC | #7
On 2019-09-07, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 06:19 +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > + * @flags: O_* flags.
> > + * @mode: O_CREAT/O_TMPFILE file mode.
> > + * @upgrade_mask: UPGRADE_* flags (to restrict O_PATH re-opening).
> > + * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags.
> > + */
> > +struct open_how {
> > +	__u32 flags;
> > +	union {
> > +		__u16 mode;
> > +		__u16 upgrade_mask;
> > +	};
> > +	__u16 resolve;
> > +};
> > +
> > +#define OPEN_HOW_SIZE_VER0	8 /* sizeof first published struct */
> > +
> 
> Hmm, there is no version field. When you want to expand this in the
> future, what is the plan? Add a new flag to indicate that it's some
> length?

The "version number" is the size of the struct. Any extensions we make
are appended to the struct (openat2 now takes a size_t argument), and
the new copy_struct_{to,from}_user() helpers handle all of the
permutations of {old,new} kernel and {old,new} user space.

This is how clone3(), sched_[gs]etattr() and perf_event_open() all
operate (all of the sigset syscalls operate similarly but don't
gracefully handle different kernel vintages -- you just get -EINVAL).
Ingo Molnar Sept. 10, 2019, 6:35 a.m. UTC | #8
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
> >
> > Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API
> 
> No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage
> API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).
> 
> We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as
> well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we
> have code to support _anyway_.
> 
> Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users -
> more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going
> to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.

I suspect there is a "add a clean new flags namespace" analogy to the 
classic "add a clean new standard" XKCD:

	https://xkcd.com/927/

Thanks,

	Ingo
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Patch

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 728fe028c02c..9f374f7d9514 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -475,3 +475,4 @@ 
 543	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 544	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 545 reserved for clone3
+547	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
index 6da7dc4d79cc..4ba54bc7e19a 100644
--- a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
@@ -449,3 +449,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435	common	clone3				sys_clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
index 2629a68b8724..8aa00ccb0b96 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ 
 #define __ARM_NR_compat_set_tls		(__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE + 5)
 #define __ARM_NR_COMPAT_END		(__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE + 0x800)
 
-#define __NR_compat_syscalls		436
+#define __NR_compat_syscalls		438
 #endif
 
 #define __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
index 94ab29cf4f00..57f6f592d460 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
@@ -879,6 +879,8 @@  __SYSCALL(__NR_fspick, sys_fspick)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_pidfd_open, sys_pidfd_open)
 #define __NR_clone3 435
 __SYSCALL(__NR_clone3, sys_clone3)
+#define __NR_openat2 437
+__SYSCALL(__NR_openat2, sys_openat2)
 
 /*
  * Please add new compat syscalls above this comment and update
diff --git a/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 36d5faf4c86c..8d36f2e2dc89 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -356,3 +356,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index a88a285a0e5f..2559925f1924 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -435,3 +435,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 09b0cd7dab0a..c04385e60833 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -441,3 +441,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435	common	clone3				sys_clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl
index c9c879ec9b6d..ba06cae655c6 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl
@@ -374,3 +374,4 @@ 
 433	n32	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	n32	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	n32	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
index bbce9159caa1..0f3de320ae51 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
@@ -350,3 +350,4 @@ 
 433	n64	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	n64	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	n64	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
index 9653591428ec..f108464d09a3 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
@@ -423,3 +423,4 @@ 
 433	o32	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	o32	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	o32	openat2				sys_openat2			sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 670d1371aca1..45ddc4485844 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -432,3 +432,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435	common	clone3				sys_clone3_wrapper
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 43f736ed47f2..a8b5ecb5b602 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -517,3 +517,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435	nospu	clone3				ppc_clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 3054e9c035a3..16b571c06161 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -438,3 +438,4 @@ 
 433  common	fspick			sys_fspick			sys_fspick
 434  common	pidfd_open		sys_pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435  common	clone3			sys_clone3			sys_clone3
+437  common	openat2			sys_openat2			sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index b5ed26c4c005..a7185cc18626 100644
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -438,3 +438,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 8c8cc7537fb2..b11c19552022 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -481,3 +481,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 # 435 reserved for clone3
+437	common	openat2			sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
index c00019abd076..dfa1dc5c8587 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -440,3 +440,4 @@ 
 433	i386	fspick			sys_fspick			__ia32_sys_fspick
 434	i386	pidfd_open		sys_pidfd_open			__ia32_sys_pidfd_open
 435	i386	clone3			sys_clone3			__ia32_sys_clone3
+437	i386	openat2			sys_openat2			__ia32_sys_openat2
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index c29976eca4a8..9035647ef236 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ 
 433	common	fspick			__x64_sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open		__x64_sys_pidfd_open
 435	common	clone3			__x64_sys_clone3/ptregs
+437	common	openat2			__x64_sys_openat2
 
 #
 # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index 25f4de729a6d..f0a68013c038 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -406,3 +406,4 @@ 
 433	common	fspick				sys_fspick
 434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
 435	common	clone3				sys_clone3
+437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 310b896eecf0..c33a927c9218 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -947,19 +947,27 @@  struct file *open_with_fake_path(const struct path *path, int flags,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(open_with_fake_path);
 
-static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *op)
+static inline int build_open_flags(const struct open_how *how,
+				   struct open_flags *op)
 {
+	int flags = how->flags;
 	int lookup_flags = 0;
+	int opath_mask = 0;
 	int acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flags);
 
 	/*
-	 * Clear out all open flags we don't know about so that we don't report
-	 * them in fcntl(F_GETFD) or similar interfaces.
+	 * Older syscalls still clear these bits before calling
+	 * build_open_flags(), but openat2(2) checks all its arguments.
 	 */
-	flags &= VALID_OPEN_FLAGS;
+	if (flags & ~VALID_OPEN_FLAGS)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (how->resolve & ~VALID_RESOLVE_FLAGS)
+		return -EINVAL;
+	if (!(how->flags & (O_PATH | O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) && how->mode != 0)
+		return -EINVAL;
 
 	if (flags & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE))
-		op->mode = (mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;
+		op->mode = (how->mode & S_IALLUGO) | S_IFREG;
 	else
 		op->mode = 0;
 
@@ -987,6 +995,14 @@  static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o
 		 */
 		flags &= O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | O_PATH;
 		acc_mode = 0;
+
+		/* Allow userspace to restrict the re-opening of O_PATH fds. */
+		if (how->upgrade_mask & ~VALID_UPGRADE_FLAGS)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		if (!(how->upgrade_mask & UPGRADE_NOREAD))
+			opath_mask |= FMODE_PATH_READ;
+		if (!(how->upgrade_mask & UPGRADE_NOWRITE))
+			opath_mask |= FMODE_PATH_WRITE;
 	}
 
 	op->open_flag = flags;
@@ -1002,8 +1018,7 @@  static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o
 
 	op->acc_mode = acc_mode;
 	op->intent = flags & O_PATH ? 0 : LOOKUP_OPEN;
-	/* For O_PATH backwards-compatibility we default to an all-set mask. */
-	op->opath_mask = FMODE_PATH_READ | FMODE_PATH_WRITE;
+	op->opath_mask = opath_mask;
 
 	if (flags & O_CREAT) {
 		op->intent |= LOOKUP_CREATE;
@@ -1017,6 +1032,18 @@  static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_FOLLOW;
 	if (flags & O_EMPTYPATH)
 		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_EMPTY;
+
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_NO_XDEV)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_XDEV;
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS;
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS;
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_BENEATH)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_BENEATH;
+	if (how->resolve & RESOLVE_IN_ROOT)
+		lookup_flags |= LOOKUP_IN_ROOT;
+
 	op->lookup_flags = lookup_flags;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1035,8 +1062,11 @@  static inline int build_open_flags(int flags, umode_t mode, struct open_flags *o
 struct file *file_open_name(struct filename *name, int flags, umode_t mode)
 {
 	struct open_flags op;
-	int err = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
-	return err ? ERR_PTR(err) : do_filp_open(AT_FDCWD, name, &op);
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+	int err = build_open_flags(&how, &op);
+	if (err)
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
+	return do_filp_open(AT_FDCWD, name, &op);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -1067,17 +1097,19 @@  struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt,
 			    const char *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
 {
 	struct open_flags op;
-	int err = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+	int err = build_open_flags(&how, &op);
 	if (err)
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	return do_file_open_root(dentry, mnt, filename, &op);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(file_open_root);
 
-long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
+long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+		 struct open_how *how)
 {
 	struct open_flags op;
-	int fd = build_open_flags(flags, mode, &op);
+	int fd = build_open_flags(how, &op);
 	int empty = 0;
 	struct filename *tmp;
 
@@ -1090,7 +1122,7 @@  long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
 	if (!empty)
 		op.open_flag &= ~O_EMPTYPATH;
 
-	fd = get_unused_fd_flags(flags);
+	fd = get_unused_fd_flags(how->flags);
 	if (fd >= 0) {
 		struct file *f = do_filp_open(dfd, tmp, &op);
 		if (IS_ERR(f)) {
@@ -1107,19 +1139,37 @@  long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags, umode_t mode)
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE3(open, const char __user *, filename, int, flags, umode_t, mode)
 {
-	if (force_o_largefile())
-		flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
-
-	return do_sys_open(AT_FDCWD, filename, flags, mode);
+	return ksys_open(filename, flags, mode);
 }
 
 SYSCALL_DEFINE4(openat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, flags,
 		umode_t, mode)
 {
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+
+	if (force_o_largefile())
+		how.flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
+
+	return do_sys_open(dfd, filename, &how);
+}
+
+SYSCALL_DEFINE4(openat2, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename,
+		const struct open_how __user *, how, size_t, usize)
+{
+	int err;
+	struct open_how tmp;
+
+	if (unlikely(usize < OPEN_HOW_SIZE_VER0))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	err = copy_struct_from_user(&tmp, sizeof(tmp), how, usize);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	if (force_o_largefile())
-		flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
+		tmp.flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
 
-	return do_sys_open(dfd, filename, flags, mode);
+	return do_sys_open(dfd, filename, &tmp);
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
@@ -1129,7 +1179,8 @@  SYSCALL_DEFINE4(openat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, flags,
  */
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(open, const char __user *, filename, int, flags, umode_t, mode)
 {
-	return do_sys_open(AT_FDCWD, filename, flags, mode);
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+	return do_sys_open(AT_FDCWD, filename, &how);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1138,7 +1189,8 @@  COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(open, const char __user *, filename, int, flags, umode_t,
  */
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(openat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, flags, umode_t, mode)
 {
-	return do_sys_open(dfd, filename, flags, mode);
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+	return do_sys_open(dfd, filename, &how);
 }
 #endif
 
diff --git a/include/linux/fcntl.h b/include/linux/fcntl.h
index 2868ae6c8fc1..66125211caba 100644
--- a/include/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -4,13 +4,30 @@ 
 
 #include <uapi/linux/fcntl.h>
 
-/* list of all valid flags for the open/openat flags argument: */
+/* Should open_how.mode be set for older syscalls wrappers? */
+#define OPEN_HOW_MODE(flags, mode) \
+	(((flags) & (O_CREAT | __O_TMPFILE)) ? (mode) : 0)
+/* Convert older syscall (flags, mode) arguments to open_how. */
+#define OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode) \
+	{ .flags = (flags) & VALID_OPEN_FLAGS, \
+	  .mode = OPEN_HOW_MODE((flags), (mode)) }
+
+/* List of all valid flags for the open/openat flags argument: */
 #define VALID_OPEN_FLAGS \
 	(O_RDONLY | O_WRONLY | O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL | O_NOCTTY | O_TRUNC | \
 	 O_APPEND | O_NDELAY | O_NONBLOCK | O_NDELAY | __O_SYNC | O_DSYNC | \
 	 FASYNC	| O_DIRECT | O_LARGEFILE | O_DIRECTORY | O_NOFOLLOW | \
 	 O_NOATIME | O_CLOEXEC | O_PATH | __O_TMPFILE | O_EMPTYPATH)
 
+/* List of all valid flags for the how->upgrade_mask argument: */
+#define VALID_UPGRADE_FLAGS \
+	(UPGRADE_NOWRITE | UPGRADE_NOREAD)
+
+/* List of all valid flags for the how->resolve argument: */
+#define VALID_RESOLVE_FLAGS \
+	(RESOLVE_NO_XDEV | RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS | RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS | \
+	 RESOLVE_BENEATH | RESOLVE_IN_ROOT)
+
 #ifndef force_o_largefile
 #define force_o_largefile() (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T))
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index a9ad596b28e2..135e4fa773fc 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2498,8 +2498,8 @@  extern int do_truncate(struct dentry *, loff_t start, unsigned int time_attrs,
 		       struct file *filp);
 extern int vfs_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
 			loff_t len);
-extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
-			umode_t mode);
+extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+			struct open_how *how);
 extern struct file *file_open_name(struct filename *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *filp_open(const char *, int, umode_t);
 extern struct file *file_open_root(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *,
diff --git a/include/linux/syscalls.h b/include/linux/syscalls.h
index 88145da7d140..a249bcb686bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@  struct rseq;
 union bpf_attr;
 struct io_uring_params;
 struct clone_args;
+struct open_how;
 
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #include <linux/aio_abi.h>
@@ -439,6 +440,8 @@  asmlinkage long sys_fchownat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, uid_t user,
 asmlinkage long sys_fchown(unsigned int fd, uid_t user, gid_t group);
 asmlinkage long sys_openat(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
 			   umode_t mode);
+asmlinkage long sys_openat2(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+			    const struct open_how *how, size_t size);
 asmlinkage long sys_close(unsigned int fd);
 asmlinkage long sys_vhangup(void);
 
@@ -1374,15 +1377,18 @@  static inline int ksys_close(unsigned int fd)
 	return __close_fd(current->files, fd);
 }
 
-extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,
-			umode_t mode);
+extern long do_sys_open(int dfd, const char __user *filename,
+			struct open_how *how);
 
 static inline long ksys_open(const char __user *filename, int flags,
 			     umode_t mode)
 {
+	struct open_how how = OPEN_HOW_FROM(flags, mode);
+
 	if (force_o_largefile())
-		flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
-	return do_sys_open(AT_FDCWD, filename, flags, mode);
+		how.flags |= O_LARGEFILE;
+
+	return do_sys_open(AT_FDCWD, filename, &how);
 }
 
 extern long do_sys_truncate(const char __user *pathname, loff_t length);
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
index 1be0e798e362..b28c11b338ee 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -851,8 +851,11 @@  __SYSCALL(__NR_pidfd_open, sys_pidfd_open)
 __SYSCALL(__NR_clone3, sys_clone3)
 #endif
 
+#define __NR_openat2 437
+__SYSCALL(__NR_openat2, sys_openat2)
+
 #undef __NR_syscalls
-#define __NR_syscalls 436
+#define __NR_syscalls 438
 
 /*
  * 32 bit systems traditionally used different
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
index 1d338357df8a..479baf2da10e 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
@@ -93,5 +93,47 @@ 
 
 #define AT_RECURSIVE		0x8000	/* Apply to the entire subtree */
 
+/**
+ * Arguments for how openat2(2) should open the target path. If @resolve is
+ * zero, then openat2(2) operates identically to openat(2).
+ *
+ * However, unlike openat(2), unknown bits in @flags result in -EINVAL rather
+ * than being silently ignored. In addition, @mode (or @upgrade_mask) must be
+ * zero unless one of {O_CREAT, O_TMPFILE, O_PATH} are set.
+ *
+ * @flags: O_* flags.
+ * @mode: O_CREAT/O_TMPFILE file mode.
+ * @upgrade_mask: UPGRADE_* flags (to restrict O_PATH re-opening).
+ * @resolve: RESOLVE_* flags.
+ */
+struct open_how {
+	__u32 flags;
+	union {
+		__u16 mode;
+		__u16 upgrade_mask;
+	};
+	__u16 resolve;
+};
+
+#define OPEN_HOW_SIZE_VER0	8 /* sizeof first published struct */
+
+/* how->resolve flags for openat2(2). */
+#define RESOLVE_NO_XDEV		0x01 /* Block mount-point crossings
+					(includes bind-mounts). */
+#define RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS	0x02 /* Block traversal through procfs-style
+					"magic-links". */
+#define RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS	0x04 /* Block traversal through all symlinks
+					(implies OEXT_NO_MAGICLINKS) */
+#define RESOLVE_BENEATH		0x08 /* Block "lexical" trickery like
+					"..", symlinks, and absolute
+					paths which escape the dirfd. */
+#define RESOLVE_IN_ROOT		0x10 /* Make all jumps to "/" and ".."
+					be scoped inside the dirfd
+					(similar to chroot(2)). */
+
+/* how->upgrade flags for openat2(2). */
+/* First bit is reserved for a future UPGRADE_NOEXEC flag. */
+#define UPGRADE_NOREAD		0x02 /* Block re-opening with MAY_READ. */
+#define UPGRADE_NOWRITE		0x04 /* Block re-opening with MAY_WRITE. */
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FCNTL_H */