The fact that we used a Vector meant that even if creating a Mount
object succeeded, we were still at a risk that appending to the actual
mounts Vector could fail due to OOM condition. To guard against this,
the mount table is now an IntrusiveList, which always means that when
allocation of a Mount object succeeded, then inserting that object to
the list will succeed, which allows us to fail early in case of OOM
condition.
This solves one of the security issues being mentioned in issue #15996.
We simply don't allow creating hardlinks on paths that were not unveiled
as writable to prevent possible bypass on a certain path that was
unveiled as non-writable.
Instead, allow userspace to decide on the coredump directory path. By
default, SystemServer sets it to the /tmp/coredump directory, but users
can now change this by writing a new path to the sysfs node at
/sys/kernel/variables/coredump_directory, and also to read this node to
check where coredumps are currently generated at.
By default, disallow reading of values in that directory. Later on, we
will enable sparingly read access to specific files.
The idea that led to this mechanism was suggested by Jean-Baptiste
Boric (also known as boricj in GitHub), to prevent access to sensitive
information in the SysFS if someone adds a new file in the /sys/kernel
directory.
There's simply no benefit in allowing sandboxed programs to change the
power state of the machine, so disallow writes to the mentioned node to
prevent malicious programs to request that.
To accomplish this, we add another VeilState which is called
LockedInherited. The idea is to apply exec unveil data, similar to
execpromises of the pledge syscall, on the current exec'ed program
during the execve sequence. When applying the forced unveil data, the
veil state is set to be locked but the special state of LockedInherited
ensures that if the new program tries to unveil paths, the request will
silently be ignored, so the program will continue running without
receiving an error, but is still can only use the paths that were
unveiled before the exec syscall. This in turn, allows us to use the
unveil syscall with a special utility to sandbox other userland programs
in terms of what is visible to them on the filesystem, and is usable on
both programs that use or don't use the unveil syscall in their code.
Because the ".." entry in a directory is a separate inode, if a
directory is renamed to a new location, then we should update this entry
the point to the new parent directory as well.
Co-authored-by: Liav A <liavalb@gmail.com>
Each GenericInterruptHandler now tracks the number of calls that each
CPU has serviced.
This takes care of a FIXME in the /sys/kernel/interrupts generator.
Also, the lsirq command line tool now displays per-CPU call counts.
Our implementation for Jails resembles much of how FreeBSD jails are
working - it's essentially only a matter of using a RefPtr in the
Process class to a Jail object. Then, when we iterate over all processes
in various cases, we could ensure if either the current process is in
jail and therefore should be restricted what is visible in terms of
PID isolation, and also to be able to expose metadata about Jails in
/sys/kernel/jails node (which does not reveal anything to a process
which is in jail).
A lifetime model for the Jail object is currently plain simple - there's
simpy no way to manually delete a Jail object once it was created. Such
feature should be carefully designed to allow safe destruction of a Jail
without the possibility of releasing a process which is in Jail from the
actual jail. Each process which is attached into a Jail cannot leave it
until the end of a Process (i.e. when finalizing a Process). All jails
are kept being referenced in the JailManagement. When a last attached
process is finalized, the Jail is automatically destroyed.
Let's put the power_state global node into the /sys/kernel directory,
because that directory represents all global nodes and variables being
related to the Kernel. It's also a mutable node, that is more acceptable
being in the mentioned directory due to the fact that all other files in
the /sys/firmware directory are just firmware blobs and are not mutable
at all.
The ProcFS is an utter mess currently, so let's start move things that
are not related to processes-info. To ensure it's done in a sane manner,
we start by duplicating all /proc/ global nodes to the /sys/kernel/
directory, then we will move Userland to use the new directory so the
old directory nodes can be removed from the /proc directory.
If a program needs to execute a dynamic executable program, then it
should unveil /usr/lib/Loader.so by itself and not rely on the Kernel to
allow using this binary without any sense of respect to unveil promises
being made by the running parent program.
Previously we didn't send the SIGPIPE signal to processes when
sendto()/sendmsg()/etc. returned EPIPE. And now we do.
This also adds support for MSG_NOSIGNAL to suppress the signal.
This commit reached that goal of "safely discarding" a filesystem by
doing the following:
1. Stop using the s_file_system_map HashMap as it was an unsafe measure
to access pointers of FileSystems. Instead, make sure to register all
FileSystems at the VFS layer, with an IntrusiveList, to avoid problems
related to OOM conditions.
2. Make sure to cleanly remove the DiskCache object from a BlockBased
filesystem, so the destructor of such object will not need to do that in
the destruction point.
3. For ext2 filesystems, don't cache the root inode at m_inode_cache
HashMap. The reason for this is that when unmounting an ext2 filesystem,
we lookup at the cache to see if there's a reference to a cached inode
and if that's the case, we fail with EBUSY. If we keep the m_root_inode
also being referenced at the m_inode_cache map, we have 2 references to
that object, which will lead to fail with EBUSY. Also, it's much simpler
to always ask for a root inode and get it immediately from m_root_inode,
instead of looking up the cache for that inode.
The idea is to enable mounting FileSystem objects across multiple mounts
in contrast to what happened until now - each mount has its own unique
FileSystem object being attached to it.
Considering a situation of mounting a block device at 2 different mount
points at in system, there were a couple of critical flaws due to how
the previous "design" worked:
1. BlockBasedFileSystem(s) that pointed to the same actual device had a
separate DiskCache object being attached to them. Because both instances
were not synchronized by any means, corruption of the filesystem is most
likely achieveable by a simple cache flush of either of the instances.
2. For superblock-oriented filesystems (such as the ext2 filesystem),
lack of synchronization between both instances can lead to severe
corruption in the superblock, which could render the entire filesystem
unusable.
3. Flags of a specific filesystem implementation (for example, with xfs
on Linux, one can instruct to mount it with the discard option) must be
honored across multiple mounts, to ensure expected behavior against a
particular filesystem.
This patch put the foundations to start fix the issues mentioned above.
However, there are still major issues to solve, so this is only a start.
This flag doesn't conform to any POSIX standard nor is found in any OS
out there. The idea behind this mount flag is to ensure that only
non-regular files will be placed in a filesystem, which includes device
nodes, symbolic links, directories, FIFOs and sockets. Currently, the
only valid case for using this mount flag is for TmpFS instances, where
we want to mount a TmpFS but disallow any kind of regular file and only
allow other types of files on the filesystem.
Although this code worked quite well, it is considered to be a code
duplication with the TmpFS code which is more tested and works quite
well for a variety of cases. The only valid reason to keep this
filesystem was that it enforces that no regular files will be created at
all in the filesystem. Later on, we will re-introduce this feature in a
sane manner. Therefore, this can be safely removed after SystemServer no
longer uses this filesystem type anymore.
Instead of just having a giant KBuffer that is not resizeable easily, we
use multiple AnonymousVMObjects in one Vector to store them.
The idea is to not have to do giant memcpy or memset each time we need
to allocate or de-allocate memory for TmpFS inodes, but instead, we can
allocate only the desired block range when trying to write to it.
Therefore, it is also possible to have data holes in the inode content
in case of skipping an entire set of one data block or more when writing
to the inode content, thus, making memory usage much more efficient.
To ensure we don't run out of virtual memory range, don't allocate a
Region in advance to each TmpFSInode, but instead try to allocate a
Region on IO operation, and then use that Region to map the VMObjects
in IO loop.
We no longer require to lock the m_inode_lock in the SharedInodeVMObject
code as the methods write_bytes and read_bytes of the Inode class do
this for us now.
We move QEMU and VirtualBox shutdown sequences to a separate file, as
well as moving the i8042 reboot code sequence too to another file.
This allows us to abstract specific methods from the power state node
code of the SysFS filesystem, to allow other architectures to put their
methods there too in the future.
We make these methods non-virtual because we want to ensure we properly
enforce locking of the m_inode_lock mutex. Also, for write operations,
we want to call prepare_to_write_data before the actual write. The
previous design required us to ensure the callers do that at various
places which lead to hard-to-find bugs. By moving everything to a place
where we call prepare_to_write_data only once, we eliminate a possibilty
of forgeting to call it on some code path in the kernel.
The block list required a bit of work, and now the only method being
declared const to bypass its const-iness is the read_bytes method that
calls a new method called compute_block_list_with_exclusive_locking that
takes care of proper locking before trying to update the block list data
of the ext2 inode.
