Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates

From	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates
Date	2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
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On 2015-11-17 12:55, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 11:25:51AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>
>> Shortly after that I plan to follow with support for ext4. I've been
>> fuzzing ext4 for a while now and it has held up well, and I'm currently
>> working on hand-crafted attacks. Ted has commented privately (to others,
>> not to me personally) that he will fix bugs for such attacks, though I
>> haven't seen any public comments to that effect.
>
> _Static_ attacks, or change-image-under-mounted-fs attacks?
To properly protect against attacks on mounted filesystems, we'd need 
some new concept of a userspace immutable file (that is, one where 
nobody can write to it except the kernel, and only the kernel can change 
it between regular access and this new state), and then have the kernel 
set an image (or block device) to this state when a filesystem is 
mounted from it (this introduces all kinds of other issues too however, 
for example stuff that allows an online fsck on the device will stop 
working, as will many un-deletion tools).

The only other option would be to force the FS to cache all metadata in 
memory, and validate between the cache and what's on disk on every 
access, which is not realistic for any real world system.

It's unfeasible from a practical standpoint to expect filesystems to 
assume that stuff they write might change under them due to malicious 
intent of a third party.  Some filesystems may be more resilient to this 
kind of attack (ZFS and BTRFS in some configurations come to mind), but 
a determined attacker can still circumvent those protections (on at 
least BTRFS, it's not all that hard to cause a sub-tree of the 
filesystem to disappear with at most two 64k blocks being written to the 
block device directly, and there is no way that this can be prevented 
short of what I suggest above).

Thread

[PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH v3 1/7] block_dev: Support checking inode permissions in lookup_bdev() Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH v3 2/7] block_dev: Check permissions towards block device inode when mounting Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 17:50 +0100
  [PATCH v3 3/7] mtd: Check permissions towards mtd block device inode when mounting Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 17:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-17 18:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 19:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 19:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> - 2015-11-17 20:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-17 21:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> - 2015-11-17 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-19 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com> - 2015-11-19 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-19 17:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-20 18:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-17 20:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 20:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-11-18 20:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-18 20:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-18 20:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 20:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 20:20 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 22:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 22:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 13:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-18 15:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-18 16:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-18 16:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> - 2015-11-19 08:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-19 09:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-19 15:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-19 16:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> - 2015-11-19 15:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-19 15:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com> - 2015-11-19 16:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-19 16:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Nikolay Borisov <kernel@kyup.com> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 20:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-17 21:40 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2015-11-17 22:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-17 23:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 13:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> - 2015-11-18 15:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> - 2015-11-18 16:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] User namespace mount updates bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields) - 2015-11-18 19:50 +0100

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