Make file credentials available to the seqfile interfaces

A lot of seqfile users seem to be using things like %pK that uses the
credentials of the current process, but that is actually completely
wrong for filesystem interfaces.

The unix semantics for permission checking files is to check permissions
at _open_ time, not at read or write time, and that is not just a small
detail: passing off stdin/stdout/stderr to a suid application and making
the actual IO happen in privileged context is a classic exploit
technique.

So if we want to be able to look at permissions at read time, we need to
use the file open credentials, not the current ones.  Normal file
accesses can just use "f_cred" (or any of the helper functions that do
that, like file_ns_capable()), but the seqfile interfaces do not have
any such options.

It turns out that seq_file _does_ save away the user_ns information of
the file, though.  Since user_ns is just part of the full credential
information, replace that special case with saving off the cred pointer
instead, and suddenly seq_file has all the permission information it
needs.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/seq_file.c b/fs/seq_file.c
index e85664b..19f532e 100644
--- a/fs/seq_file.c
+++ b/fs/seq_file.c
@@ -72,9 +72,10 @@ int seq_open(struct file *file, const struct seq_operations *op)
 
 	mutex_init(&p->lock);
 	p->op = op;
-#ifdef CONFIG_USER_NS
-	p->user_ns = file->f_cred->user_ns;
-#endif
+
+	// No refcounting: the lifetime of 'p' is constrained
+	// to the lifetime of the file.
+	p->file = file;
 
 	/*
 	 * Wrappers around seq_open(e.g. swaps_open) need to be