drop_monitor: Require 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' when joining "events" group

The "NET_DM" generic netlink family notifies drop locations over the
"events" multicast group. This is problematic since by default generic
netlink allows non-root users to listen to these notifications.

Fix by adding a new field to the generic netlink multicast group
structure that when set prevents non-root users or root without the
'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' capability (in the user namespace owning the network
namespace) from joining the group. Set this field for the "events"
group. Use 'CAP_SYS_ADMIN' rather than 'CAP_NET_ADMIN' because of the
nature of the information that is shared over this group.

Note that the capability check in this case will always be performed
against the initial user namespace since the family is not netns aware
and only operates in the initial network namespace.

A new field is added to the structure rather than using the "flags"
field because the existing field uses uAPI flags and it is inappropriate
to add a new uAPI flag for an internal kernel check. In net-next we can
rework the "flags" field to use internal flags and fold the new field
into it. But for now, in order to reduce the amount of changes, add a
new field.

Since the information can only be consumed by root, mark the control
plane operations that start and stop the tracing as root-only using the
'GENL_ADMIN_PERM' flag.

Tested using [1].

Before:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo

After:

 # capsh -- -c ./dm_repo
 # capsh --drop=cap_sys_admin -- -c ./dm_repo
 Failed to join "events" multicast group

[1]
 $ cat dm.c
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <netlink/genl/ctrl.h>
 #include <netlink/genl/genl.h>
 #include <netlink/socket.h>

 int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	struct nl_sock *sk;
 	int grp, err;

 	sk = nl_socket_alloc();
 	if (!sk) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to allocate socket\n");
 		return -1;
 	}

 	err = genl_connect(sk);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect socket\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	grp = genl_ctrl_resolve_grp(sk, "NET_DM", "events");
 	if (grp < 0) {
 		fprintf(stderr,
 			"Failed to resolve \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return grp;
 	}

 	err = nl_socket_add_memberships(sk, grp, NFNLGRP_NONE);
 	if (err) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "Failed to join \"events\" multicast group\n");
 		return err;
 	}

 	return 0;
 }
 $ gcc -I/usr/include/libnl3 -lnl-3 -lnl-genl-3 -o dm_repo dm.c

Fixes: 9a8afc8d3962 ("Network Drop Monitor: Adding drop monitor implementation & Netlink protocol")
Reported-by: "The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)" <security@ncsc.gov.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206213102.1824398-3-idosch@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/include/net/genetlink.h b/include/net/genetlink.h
index e18a4c0d69eedcce5c4c246e751f6d5efc8c52c5..c53244f204370442054501e7c9698b6b7224af8b 100644 (file)
--- a/include/net/genetlink.h
+++ b/include/net/genetlink.h
@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@
  * struct genl_multicast_group - generic netlink multicast group
  * @name: name of the multicast group, names are per-family
  * @flags: GENL_* flags (%GENL_ADMIN_PERM or %GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM)
+ * @cap_sys_admin: whether %CAP_SYS_ADMIN is required for binding
  */
 struct genl_multicast_group {
        char                    name[GENL_NAMSIZ];
        u8                      flags;
+       u8                      cap_sys_admin:1;
 };
 
 struct genl_split_ops;

diff --git a/net/core/drop_monitor.c b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
index aff31cd944c29d60b3634ef9ac098aadb290bb0f..b240d9aae4a6435cdd973f27e54b48f7bd8f9298 100644 (file)
--- a/net/core/drop_monitor.c
+++ b/net/core/drop_monitor.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ static struct sk_buff *reset_per_cpu_data(struct per_cpu_dm_data *data)
 }
 
 static const struct genl_multicast_group dropmon_mcgrps[] = {
-       { .name = "events", },
+       { .name = "events", .cap_sys_admin = 1 },
 };
 
 static void send_dm_alert(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -1619,11 +1619,13 @@ static const struct genl_small_ops dropmon_ops[] = {
                .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_START,
                .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
                .doit = net_dm_cmd_trace,
+               .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
        },
        {
                .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_STOP,
                .validate = GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_STRICT | GENL_DONT_VALIDATE_DUMP,
                .doit = net_dm_cmd_trace,
+               .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM,
        },
        {
                .cmd = NET_DM_CMD_CONFIG_GET,

diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index 92ef5ed2e7b0422e389d1a9c5696c6e2323a7450..9c7ffd10df2a72c00d626ab40ca95bb739425983 100644 (file)
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -1691,6 +1691,9 @@ static int genl_bind(struct net *net, int group)
                if ((grp->flags & GENL_UNS_ADMIN_PERM) &&
                    !ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                        ret = -EPERM;
+               if (grp->cap_sys_admin &&
+                   !ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+                       ret = -EPERM;
 
                break;
        }