Merge pull request #1274 from cyphar/further-CVE-2016-9962-cleanup

libcontainer: init: only pass stateDirFd when creating a container

libcontainer/container_linux.go

@@ -296,21 +296,29 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) newParentProcess(p *Process, doInit bool) (parentProces
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "creating new init pipe")
 	}
-	rootDir, err := os.Open(c.root)
+	cmd, err := c.commandTemplate(p, childPipe)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	cmd, err := c.commandTemplate(p, childPipe, rootDir)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "creating new command template")
 	}
 	if !doInit {
-		return c.newSetnsProcess(p, cmd, parentPipe, childPipe, rootDir)
+		return c.newSetnsProcess(p, cmd, parentPipe, childPipe)
 	}
+
+	// We only set up rootDir if we're not doing a `runc exec`. The reason for
+	// this is to avoid cases where a racing, unprivileged process inside the
+	// container can get access to the statedir file descriptor (which would
+	// allow for container rootfs escape).
+	rootDir, err := os.Open(c.root)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	cmd.ExtraFiles = append(cmd.ExtraFiles, rootDir)
+	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env,
+		fmt.Sprintf("_LIBCONTAINER_STATEDIR=%d", stdioFdCount+len(cmd.ExtraFiles)-1))
 	return c.newInitProcess(p, cmd, parentPipe, childPipe, rootDir)
 }
 
-func (c *linuxContainer) commandTemplate(p *Process, childPipe, rootDir *os.File) (*exec.Cmd, error) {
+func (c *linuxContainer) commandTemplate(p *Process, childPipe *os.File) (*exec.Cmd, error) {
 	cmd := exec.Command(c.initArgs[0], c.initArgs[1:]...)
 	cmd.Stdin = p.Stdin
 	cmd.Stdout = p.Stdout
@@ -319,10 +327,9 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) commandTemplate(p *Process, childPipe, rootDir *os.File
 	if cmd.SysProcAttr == nil {
 		cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{}
 	}
-	cmd.ExtraFiles = append(p.ExtraFiles, childPipe, rootDir)
+	cmd.ExtraFiles = append(p.ExtraFiles, childPipe)
 	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env,
-		fmt.Sprintf("_LIBCONTAINER_INITPIPE=%d", stdioFdCount+len(cmd.ExtraFiles)-2),
+		fmt.Sprintf("_LIBCONTAINER_INITPIPE=%d", stdioFdCount+len(cmd.ExtraFiles)-1))
-		fmt.Sprintf("_LIBCONTAINER_STATEDIR=%d", stdioFdCount+len(cmd.ExtraFiles)-1))
 	// NOTE: when running a container with no PID namespace and the parent process spawning the container is
 	// PID1 the pdeathsig is being delivered to the container's init process by the kernel for some reason
 	// even with the parent still running.
@@ -360,7 +367,7 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) newInitProcess(p *Process, cmd *exec.Cmd, parentPipe, c
 	}, nil
 }
 
-func (c *linuxContainer) newSetnsProcess(p *Process, cmd *exec.Cmd, parentPipe, childPipe, rootDir *os.File) (*setnsProcess, error) {
+func (c *linuxContainer) newSetnsProcess(p *Process, cmd *exec.Cmd, parentPipe, childPipe *os.File) (*setnsProcess, error) {
 	cmd.Env = append(cmd.Env, "_LIBCONTAINER_INITTYPE="+string(initSetns))
 	state, err := c.currentState()
 	if err != nil {
@@ -382,7 +389,6 @@ func (c *linuxContainer) newSetnsProcess(p *Process, cmd *exec.Cmd, parentPipe,
 		config:        c.newInitConfig(p),
 		process:       p,
 		bootstrapData: data,
-		rootDir:       rootDir,
 	}, nil
 }
 

libcontainer/factory_linux.go

@@ -222,29 +222,33 @@ func (l *LinuxFactory) Type() string {
 // StartInitialization loads a container by opening the pipe fd from the parent to read the configuration and state
 // This is a low level implementation detail of the reexec and should not be consumed externally
 func (l *LinuxFactory) StartInitialization() (err error) {
-	var pipefd, rootfd int
+	var (
-	for _, pair := range []struct {
+		pipefd, rootfd int
-		k string
+		envInitPipe    = os.Getenv("_LIBCONTAINER_INITPIPE")
-		v *int
+		envStateDir    = os.Getenv("_LIBCONTAINER_STATEDIR")
-	}{
+	)
-		{"_LIBCONTAINER_INITPIPE", &pipefd},
-		{"_LIBCONTAINER_STATEDIR", &rootfd},
-	} {
 
-		s := os.Getenv(pair.k)
+	// Get the INITPIPE.
-
+	pipefd, err = strconv.Atoi(envInitPipe)
-		i, err := strconv.Atoi(s)
 	if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("unable to convert %s=%s to int", pair.k, s)
+		return fmt.Errorf("unable to convert _LIBCONTAINER_INITPIPE=%s to int: %s", envInitPipe, err)
-		}
-		*pair.v = i
 	}
+
 	var (
 		pipe = os.NewFile(uintptr(pipefd), "pipe")
 		it   = initType(os.Getenv("_LIBCONTAINER_INITTYPE"))
 	)
 	defer pipe.Close()
 
+	// Only init processes have STATEDIR.
+	rootfd = -1
+	if it == initStandard {
+		rootfd, err = strconv.Atoi(envStateDir)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("unable to convert _LIBCONTAINER_STATEDIR=%s to int: %s", envStateDir, err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// clear the current process's environment to clean any libcontainer
 	// specific env vars.
 	os.Clearenv()

libcontainer/init_linux.go

@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ func newContainerInit(t initType, pipe *os.File, stateDirFD int) (initer, error)
 		return &linuxSetnsInit{
 			pipe:   pipe,
 			config: config,
-			stateDirFD: stateDirFD,
 		}, nil
 	case initStandard:
 		return &linuxStandardInit{

libcontainer/process_linux.go

@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ type setnsProcess struct {
 	fds           []string
 	process       *Process
 	bootstrapData io.Reader
-	rootDir       *os.File
 }
 
 func (p *setnsProcess) startTime() (string, error) {
@@ -70,7 +69,6 @@ func (p *setnsProcess) start() (err error) {
 	defer p.parentPipe.Close()
 	err = p.cmd.Start()
 	p.childPipe.Close()
-	p.rootDir.Close()
 	if err != nil {
 		return newSystemErrorWithCause(err, "starting setns process")
 	}

libcontainer/setns_init_linux.go

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ package libcontainer
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
-	"syscall"
 
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/apparmor"
 	"github.com/opencontainers/runc/libcontainer/keys"
@@ -19,7 +18,6 @@ import (
 type linuxSetnsInit struct {
 	pipe   *os.File
 	config *initConfig
-	stateDirFD int
 }
 
 func (l *linuxSetnsInit) getSessionRingName() string {
@@ -60,8 +58,5 @@ func (l *linuxSetnsInit) Init() error {
 	if err := label.SetProcessLabel(l.config.ProcessLabel); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	// close the statedir fd before exec because the kernel resets dumpable in the wrong order
-	// https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/v4.9/fs/exec.c#L1290-L1318
-	syscall.Close(l.stateDirFD)
 	return system.Execv(l.config.Args[0], l.config.Args[0:], os.Environ())
 }