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net: core: enable SO_BINDTODEVICE for non-root users
Currently, SO_BINDTODEVICE requires CAP_NET_RAW. This change allows a non-root user to bind a socket to an interface if it is not already bound. This is useful to allow an application to bind itself to a specific VRF for outgoing or incoming connections. Currently, an application wanting to manage connections through several VRF need to be privileged. Previously, IP_UNICAST_IF and IPV6_UNICAST_IF were added for Wine (76e2105 and c4062df) specifically for use by non-root processes. However, they are restricted to sendmsg() and not usable with TCP. Allowing SO_BINDTODEVICE would allow TCP clients to get the same privilege. As for TCP servers, outside the VRF use case, SO_BINDTODEVICE would only further restrict connections a server could accept. When an application is restricted to a VRF (with `ip vrf exec`), the socket is bound to an interface at creation and therefore, a non-privileged call to SO_BINDTODEVICE to escape the VRF fails. When an application bound a socket to SO_BINDTODEVICE and transmit it to a non-privileged process through a Unix socket, a tentative to change the bound device also fails. Before: >>> import socket >>> s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BINDTODEVICE, b"dummy0") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted After: >>> import socket >>> s=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) >>> s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BINDTODEVICE, b"dummy0") >>> s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_BINDTODEVICE, b"dummy0") Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> PermissionError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
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net/core/sock.c

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@@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static int sock_setbindtodevice_locked(struct sock *sk, int ifindex)
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/* Sorry... */
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ret = -EPERM;
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if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW))
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if (sk->sk_bound_dev_if && !ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_RAW))
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goto out;
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ret = -EINVAL;

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