Merge branch 'tuntap-socket-uid'
Pietro Borrello says: ==================== tuntap: correctly initialize socket uid sock_init_data() assumes that the `struct socket` passed in input is contained in a `struct socket_alloc` allocated with sock_alloc(). However, tap_open() and tun_chr_open() pass a `struct socket` embedded in a `struct tap_queue` and `struct tun_file` respectively, both allocated with sk_alloc(). This causes a type confusion when issuing a container_of() with SOCK_INODE() in sock_init_data() which results in assigning a wrong sk_uid to the `struct sock` in input. Due to the type confusion, both sockets happen to have their uid set to 0, i.e. root. While it will be often correct, as tuntap devices require CAP_NET_ADMIN, it may not always be the case. Not sure how widespread is the impact of this, it seems the socket uid may be used for network filtering and routing, thus tuntap sockets may be incorrectly managed. Additionally, it seems a socket with an incorrect uid may be returned to the vhost driver when issuing a get_socket() on a tuntap device in vhost_net_set_backend(). Fix the bugs by adding and using sock_init_data_uid(), which explicitly takes a uid as argument. Signed-off-by: Pietro Borrello <borrello@diag.uniroma1.it> --- Changes in v3: - Fix the bug by defining and using sock_init_data_uid() - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131-tuntap-sk-uid-v2-0-29ec15592813@diag.uniroma1.it Changes in v2: - Shorten and format comments - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230131-tuntap-sk-uid-v1-0-af4f9f40979d@diag.uniroma1.it ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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