tracefs: Set all files to the same group ownership as the mount option
authorSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tue, 7 Dec 2021 22:17:29 +0000 (17:17 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 14 Dec 2021 09:57:15 +0000 (10:57 +0100)
commit23a5f9797d6cad693d990486836311d750c4407f
tree952b9845a5ac1891b3f8742a1859bbc7934e483e
parent60d311f9e6381d779d7d53371f87285698ecee24
tracefs: Set all files to the same group ownership as the mount option

commit 48b27b6b5191e2e1f2798cd80877b6e4ef47c351 upstream.

As people have been asking to allow non-root processes to have access to
the tracefs directory, it was considered best to only allow groups to have
access to the directory, where it is easier to just set the tracefs file
system to a specific group (as other would be too dangerous), and that way
the admins could pick which processes would have access to tracefs.

Unfortunately, this broke tooling on Android that expected the other bit
to be set. For some special cases, for non-root tools to trace the system,
tracefs would be mounted and change the permissions of the top level
directory which gave access to all running tasks permission to the
tracing directory. Even though this would be dangerous to do in a
production environment, for testing environments this can be useful.

Now with the new changes to not allow other (which is still the proper
thing to do), it breaks the testing tooling. Now more code needs to be
loaded on the system to change ownership of the tracing directory.

The real solution is to have tracefs honor the gid=xxx option when
mounting. That is,

(tracing group tracing has value 1003)

 mount -t tracefs -o gid=1003 tracefs /sys/kernel/tracing

should have it that all files in the tracing directory should be of the
given group.

Copy the logic from d_walk() from dcache.c and simplify it for the mount
case of tracefs if gid is set. All the files in tracefs will be walked and
their group will be set to the value passed in.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211207171729.2a54e1b3@gandalf.local.home
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reported-by: Yabin Cui <yabinc@google.com>
Fixes: 49d67e445742 ("tracefs: Have tracefs directories not set OTH permission bits by default")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
fs/tracefs/inode.c