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    net: core: enable SO_BINDTODEVICE for non-root users · c427bfec
    Vincent Bernat authored
    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 (76e21053 and c4062dfc) 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: default avatarVincent Bernat <vincent@bernat.ch>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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