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From: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
To: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Christian Brauner <[email protected]>,
	Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Cc: io-uring <[email protected]>,
	Linux API Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: IORING_REGISTER_CREDS[_UPDATE]() and credfd_create()?
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:47:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


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Am 30.01.20 um 15:11 schrieb Jens Axboe:
> On 1/30/20 3:26 AM, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:11:58AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 2:08 AM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On 1/29/20 10:34 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>> On 1/29/20 7:59 AM, Jann Horn wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:42 PM Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>> On 1/28/20 11:04 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 1/28/20 10:19 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>>>> #1 adds support for registering the personality of the invoking task,
>>>>>>>>> and #2 adds support for IORING_OP_USE_CREDS. Right now it's limited to
>>>>>>>>> just having one link, it doesn't support a chain of them.
>>>>>> [...]
>>>>>>> I didn't like it becoming a bit too complicated, both in terms of
>>>>>>> implementation and use. And the fact that we'd have to jump through
>>>>>>> hoops to make this work for a full chain.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So I punted and just added sqe->personality and IOSQE_PERSONALITY.
>>>>>>> This makes it way easier to use. Same branch:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://git.kernel.dk/cgit/linux-block/log/?h=for-5.6/io_uring-vfs-creds
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'd feel much better with this variant for 5.6.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Some general feedback from an inspectability/debuggability perspective:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At some point, it might be nice if you could add a .show_fdinfo
>>>>>> handler to the io_uring_fops that makes it possible to get a rough
>>>>>> overview over the state of the uring by reading /proc/$pid/fdinfo/$fd,
>>>>>> just like e.g. eventfd (see eventfd_show_fdinfo()). It might be
>>>>>> helpful for debugging to be able to see information about the fixed
>>>>>> files and buffers that have been registered. Same for the
>>>>>> personalities; that information might also be useful when someone is
>>>>>> trying to figure out what privileges a running process actually has.
>>>>>
>>>>> Agree, that would be a very useful addition. I'll take a look at it.
>>>>
>>>> Jann, how much info are you looking for? Here's a rough start, just
>>>> shows the number of registered files and buffers, and lists the
>>>> personalities registered. We could also dump the buffer info for
>>>> each of them, and ditto for the files. Not sure how much verbosity
>>>> is acceptable in fdinfo?
>>>
>>> At the moment, I personally am just interested in this from the
>>> perspective of being able to audit the state of personalities, to make
>>> important information about the security state of processes visible.
>>>
>>> Good point about verbosity in fdinfo - I'm not sure about that myself either.
>>>
>>>> Here's the test app for personality:
>>>
>>> Oh, that was quick...
>>>
>>>> # cat 3
>>>> pos:    0
>>>> flags:  02000002
>>>> mnt_id: 14
>>>> user-files: 0
>>>> user-bufs: 0
>>>> personalities:
>>>>             1: uid=0/gid=0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/io_uring.c b/fs/io_uring.c
>>>> index c5ca84a305d3..0b2c7d800297 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>>>> @@ -6511,6 +6505,45 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_uring_enter, unsigned int, fd, u32, to_submit,
>>>>         return submitted ? submitted : ret;
>>>>  }
>>>>
>>>> +struct ring_show_idr {
>>>> +       struct io_ring_ctx *ctx;
>>>> +       struct seq_file *m;
>>>> +};
>>>> +
>>>> +static int io_uring_show_cred(int id, void *p, void *data)
>>>> +{
>>>> +       struct ring_show_idr *r = data;
>>>> +       const struct cred *cred = p;
>>>> +
>>>> +       seq_printf(r->m, "\t%5d: uid=%u/gid=%u\n", id, cred->uid.val,
>>>> +                                               cred->gid.val);
>>>
>>> As Stefan said, the ->uid and ->gid aren't very useful, since when a
>>> process switches UIDs for accessing things in the filesystem, it
>>> probably only changes its EUID and FSUID, not its RUID.
>>> I think what's particularly relevant for uring would be the ->fsuid
>>> and the ->fsgid along with ->cap_effective; and perhaps for some
>>> operations also the ->euid and ->egid. The real UID/GID aren't really
>>> relevant when performing normal filesystem operations and such.
>>
>> This should probably just use the same format that is found in
>> /proc/<pid>/status to make it easy for tools to use the same parsing
>> logic and for the sake of consistency. We've adapted the same format for
>> pidfds. So that would mean:
>>
>> Uid:	1000	1000	1000	1000
>> Gid:	1000	1000	1000	1000
>>
>> Which would be: Real, effective, saved set, and filesystem {G,U}IDs
>>
>> And CapEff in /proc/<pid>/status has the format:
>> CapEff:	0000000000000000
> 
> I agree, consistency is good. I've added this, and also changed the
> naming to be CamelCase, which is seems like most of them are. Now it
> looks like this:
> 
> pos:	0
> flags:	02000002
> mnt_id:	14
> UserFiles:     0
> UserBufs:     0
> Personalities:
>     1
> 	Uid:	0		0		0		0
> 	Gid:	0		0		0		0
> 	Groups:	0
> 	CapEff:	0000003fffffffff
> 
> for a single personality registered (root). I have to indent it an extra
> tab to display each personality.

That looks good.

Maybe also print some details of struct io_ring_ctx,
flags and the ring sizes, ctx->cred.

Maybe details for io_wq and sqo_thread.

Maybe pending requests?
I'm not sure about how io_wq threads work in detail.
Is it possible that a large number of blocking request
(against an external harddisk with disconnected cable)
to block other blocking requests to a working ssd?
It would be good to diagnose such situations from
the output.

How is this supposed to be ABI-wise? Is it possible to change
the output in later kernel versions?

metze


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-30 14:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-28 10:18 IORING_REGISTER_CREDS[_UPDATE]() and credfd_create()? Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-28 16:10 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 16:17   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-28 16:19     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 17:19       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 18:04         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 19:42           ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 20:16             ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-28 20:19               ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 20:50                 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-28 20:56                   ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 21:25                     ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-28 22:38                       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-28 23:36             ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-28 23:40               ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-28 23:51                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29  0:10                   ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29  0:15                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29  0:18                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29  0:20                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29  0:21                       ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29  0:24                         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29  0:54                           ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29 10:17                             ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29 13:11                               ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-29 13:41                                 ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29 13:56                                   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-29 14:23                                     ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29 14:27                                       ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-29 14:34                                         ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29 17:34                                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29 17:42                                         ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29 20:09                                           ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-29 20:48                                             ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-29 17:46                                         ` Pavel Begunkov
2020-01-29 14:59             ` Jann Horn
2020-01-29 17:34               ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30  1:08                 ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30  2:20                   ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30  3:18                     ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30  6:53                   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2020-01-30 10:11                   ` Jann Horn
2020-01-30 10:26                     ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-30 14:11                       ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30 14:47                         ` Stefan Metzmacher [this message]
2020-01-30 15:34                           ` Jens Axboe
2020-01-30 15:13                         ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-30 15:29                           ` Jens Axboe

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