diff mbox series

[v4,2/2] ipvs: allow some sysctls in non-init user namespaces

Message ID 20240506141444.145946-2-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 2b696a2a101d36530227056b43e5c4ec05bcefc2
Delegated to: Netdev Maintainers
Headers show
Series [v4,1/2] ipvs: add READ_ONCE barrier for ipvs->sysctl_amemthresh | expand

Checks

Context Check Description
netdev/series_format warning Single patches do not need cover letters; Target tree name not specified in the subject
netdev/tree_selection success Guessed tree name to be net-next
netdev/ynl success Generated files up to date; no warnings/errors; no diff in generated;
netdev/fixes_present success Fixes tag not required for -next series
netdev/header_inline success No static functions without inline keyword in header files
netdev/build_32bit success Errors and warnings before: 927 this patch: 927
netdev/build_tools success No tools touched, skip
netdev/cc_maintainers warning 4 maintainers not CCed: pabeni@redhat.com kuba@kernel.org coreteam@netfilter.org edumazet@google.com
netdev/build_clang success Errors and warnings before: 937 this patch: 937
netdev/verify_signedoff success Signed-off-by tag matches author and committer
netdev/deprecated_api success None detected
netdev/check_selftest success No net selftest shell script
netdev/verify_fixes success No Fixes tag
netdev/build_allmodconfig_warn success Errors and warnings before: 938 this patch: 938
netdev/checkpatch success total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 0 checks, 56 lines checked
netdev/build_clang_rust success No Rust files in patch. Skipping build
netdev/kdoc success Errors and warnings before: 0 this patch: 0
netdev/source_inline success Was 0 now: 0
netdev/contest success net-next-2024-05-08--03-00 (tests: 1005)

Commit Message

Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn May 6, 2024, 2:14 p.m. UTC
Let's make all IPVS sysctls writtable even when
network namespace is owned by non-initial user namespace.

Let's make a few sysctls to be read-only for non-privileged users:
- sync_qlen_max
- sync_sock_size
- run_estimation
- est_cpulist
- est_nice

I'm trying to be conservative with this to prevent
introducing any security issues in there. Maybe,
we can allow more sysctls to be writable, but let's
do this on-demand and when we see real use-case.

This patch is motivated by user request in the LXC
project [1]. Having this can help with running some
Kubernetes [2] or Docker Swarm [3] workloads inside the system
containers.

Link: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4278 [1]
Link: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/b722d017a34b300a2284b890448e5a605f21d01e/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go#L103 [2]
Link: https://github.com/moby/libnetwork/blob/3797618f9a38372e8107d8c06f6ae199e1133ae8/osl/namespace_linux.go#L682 [3]

Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Comments

Julian Anastasov May 6, 2024, 3:10 p.m. UTC | #1
Hello,

On Mon, 6 May 2024, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:

> Let's make all IPVS sysctls writtable even when
> network namespace is owned by non-initial user namespace.
> 
> Let's make a few sysctls to be read-only for non-privileged users:
> - sync_qlen_max
> - sync_sock_size
> - run_estimation
> - est_cpulist
> - est_nice
> 
> I'm trying to be conservative with this to prevent
> introducing any security issues in there. Maybe,
> we can allow more sysctls to be writable, but let's
> do this on-demand and when we see real use-case.
> 
> This patch is motivated by user request in the LXC
> project [1]. Having this can help with running some
> Kubernetes [2] or Docker Swarm [3] workloads inside the system
> containers.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/issues/4278 [1]
> Link: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/b722d017a34b300a2284b890448e5a605f21d01e/pkg/proxy/ipvs/proxier.go#L103 [2]
> Link: https://github.com/moby/libnetwork/blob/3797618f9a38372e8107d8c06f6ae199e1133ae8/osl/namespace_linux.go#L682 [3]
> 
> Cc: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@netfilter.org>
> Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>

	Looks good to me for net-next, thanks!

Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>

> ---
>  net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> index e122fa367b81..b6d0dcf3a5c3 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
> @@ -4269,6 +4269,7 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
>  	struct ctl_table *tbl;
>  	int idx, ret;
>  	size_t ctl_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(vs_vars);
> +	bool unpriv = net->user_ns != &init_user_ns;
>  
>  	atomic_set(&ipvs->dropentry, 0);
>  	spin_lock_init(&ipvs->dropentry_lock);
> @@ -4283,10 +4284,6 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
>  		tbl = kmemdup(vs_vars, sizeof(vs_vars), GFP_KERNEL);
>  		if (tbl == NULL)
>  			return -ENOMEM;
> -
> -		/* Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users */
> -		if (net->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
> -			ctl_table_size = 0;
>  	} else
>  		tbl = vs_vars;
>  	/* Initialize sysctl defaults */
> @@ -4312,10 +4309,17 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
>  	ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports = 1;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_persist_mode;
> +
>  	ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max = nr_free_buffer_pages() / 32;
> +	if (unpriv)
> +		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max;
> +
>  	ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size = 0;
> +	if (unpriv)
> +		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size;
> +
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_cache_bypass;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_expire_nodest_conn;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sloppy_tcp;
> @@ -4338,15 +4342,22 @@ static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_conn_reuse_mode;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_schedule_icmp;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_ignore_tunneled;
> +
>  	ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation = 1;
> +	if (unpriv)
> +		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
>  	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation;
>  
>  	ipvs->est_cpulist_valid = 0;
> +	if (unpriv)
> +		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
>  	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_cpulist;
>  
>  	ipvs->sysctl_est_nice = IPVS_EST_NICE;
> +	if (unpriv)
> +		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
>  	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
>  	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_nice;
>  
> -- 
> 2.34.1

Regards

--
Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
index e122fa367b81..b6d0dcf3a5c3 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_ctl.c
@@ -4269,6 +4269,7 @@  static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	struct ctl_table *tbl;
 	int idx, ret;
 	size_t ctl_table_size = ARRAY_SIZE(vs_vars);
+	bool unpriv = net->user_ns != &init_user_ns;
 
 	atomic_set(&ipvs->dropentry, 0);
 	spin_lock_init(&ipvs->dropentry_lock);
@@ -4283,10 +4284,6 @@  static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 		tbl = kmemdup(vs_vars, sizeof(vs_vars), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (tbl == NULL)
 			return -ENOMEM;
-
-		/* Don't export sysctls to unprivileged users */
-		if (net->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
-			ctl_table_size = 0;
 	} else
 		tbl = vs_vars;
 	/* Initialize sysctl defaults */
@@ -4312,10 +4309,17 @@  static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports = 1;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_ports;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_persist_mode;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max = nr_free_buffer_pages() / 32;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_qlen_max;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size = 0;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sync_sock_size;
+
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_cache_bypass;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_expire_nodest_conn;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_sloppy_tcp;
@@ -4338,15 +4342,22 @@  static int __net_init ip_vs_control_net_init_sysctl(struct netns_ipvs *ipvs)
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_conn_reuse_mode;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_schedule_icmp;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_ignore_tunneled;
+
 	ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation = 1;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_run_estimation;
 
 	ipvs->est_cpulist_valid = 0;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_cpulist;
 
 	ipvs->sysctl_est_nice = IPVS_EST_NICE;
+	if (unpriv)
+		tbl[idx].mode = 0444;
 	tbl[idx].extra2 = ipvs;
 	tbl[idx++].data = &ipvs->sysctl_est_nice;