kernel/linux.git/include/linux/security.h, branch v6.19.11

xen/privcmd: add boot control for restricted usage in domU

2026-03-25T10:13:32+00:00

commit 1613462be621ad5103ec338a7b0ca0746ec4e5f1 upstream. When running in an unprivileged domU under Xen, the privcmd driver is restricted to allow only hypercalls against a target domain, for which the current domU is acting as a device model. Add a boot parameter "unrestricted" to allow all hypercalls (the hypervisor will still refuse destructive hypercalls affecting other guests). Make this new parameter effective only in case the domU wasn't started using secure boot, as otherwise hypercalls targeting the domU itself might result in violating the secure boot functionality. This is achieved by adding another lockdown reason, which can be tested to not being set when applying the "unrestricted" option. This is part of XSA-482 Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2025-12-05T22:36:21+00:00

Pull persistent dentry infrastructure and conversion from Al Viro: "Some filesystems use a kinda-sorta controlled dentry refcount leak to pin dentries of created objects in dcache (and undo it when removing those). A reference is grabbed and not released, but it's not actually _stored_ anywhere. That works, but it's hard to follow and verify; among other things, we have no way to tell _which_ of the increments is intended to be an unpaired one. Worse, on removal we need to decide whether the reference had already been dropped, which can be non-trivial if that removal is on umount and we need to figure out if this dentry is pinned due to e.g. unlink() not done. Usually that is handled by using kill_litter_super() as ->kill_sb(), but there are open-coded special cases of the same (consider e.g. /proc/self). Things get simpler if we introduce a new dentry flag (DCACHE_PERSISTENT) marking those "leaked" dentries. Having it set claims responsibility for +1 in refcount. The end result this series is aiming for: - get these unbalanced dget() and dput() replaced with new primitives that would, in addition to adjusting refcount, set and clear persistency flag. - instead of having kill_litter_super() mess with removing the remaining "leaked" references (e.g. for all tmpfs files that hadn't been removed prior to umount), have the regular shrink_dcache_for_umount() strip DCACHE_PERSISTENT of all dentries, dropping the corresponding reference if it had been set. After that kill_litter_super() becomes an equivalent of kill_anon_super(). Doing that in a single step is not feasible - it would affect too many places in too many filesystems. It has to be split into a series. This work has really started early in 2024; quite a few preliminary pieces have already gone into mainline. This chunk is finally getting to the meat of that stuff - infrastructure and most of the conversions to it. Some pieces are still sitting in the local branches, but the bulk of that stuff is here" * tag 'pull-persistency' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (54 commits) d_make_discardable(): warn if given a non-persistent dentry kill securityfs_recursive_remove() convert securityfs get rid of kill_litter_super() convert rust_binderfs convert nfsctl convert rpc_pipefs convert hypfs hypfs: swich hypfs_create_u64() to returning int hypfs: switch hypfs_create_str() to returning int hypfs: don't pin dentries twice convert gadgetfs gadgetfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() convert functionfs functionfs: switch to simple_remove_by_name() functionfs: fix the open/removal races functionfs: need to cancel ->reset_work in ->kill_sb() functionfs: don't bother with ffs->ref in ffs_data_{opened,closed}() functionfs: don't abuse ffs_data_closed() on fs shutdown convert selinuxfs ...

kill securityfs_recursive_remove()

2025-11-18T04:59:27+00:00

it's an unused alias for securityfs_remove() Acked-by: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Al Viro

lsm: add a LSM_STARTED_ALL notification event

2025-10-22T23:24:29+00:00

Add a new LSM notifier event, LSM_STARTED_ALL, which is fired once at boot when all of the LSMs have been started. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler Reviewed-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

lsm: rework lsm_active_cnt and lsm_idlist[]

2025-10-22T23:24:19+00:00

Move the LSM active count and lsm_id list declarations out of a header that is visible across the kernel and into a header that is limited to the LSM framework. This not only helps keep the include/linux headers smaller and cleaner, it helps prevent misuse of these variables. Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler Reviewed-by: John Johansen Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

Merge tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2025-10-03T18:14:02+00:00

Pull d_name audit update from Al Viro: "Simplifying ->d_name audits, easy part. Turn dentry->d_name into an anon union of const struct qsrt (d_name itself) and a writable alias (__d_name). With constification of some struct qstr * arguments of functions that get &dentry->d_name passed to them, that ends up with all modifications provably done only in fs/dcache.c (and a fairly small part of it). Any new places doing modifications will be easy to find - grep for __d_name will suffice" * tag 'pull-qstr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make it easier to catch those who try to modify ->d_name generic_ci_validate_strict_name(): constify name argument afs_dir_search: constify qstr argument afs_edit_dir_{add,remove}(): constify qstr argument exfat_find(): constify qstr argument security_dentry_init_security(): constify qstr argument

Merge tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit

2025-09-30T15:22:16+00:00

Pull audit updates from Paul Moore: - Proper audit support for multiple LSMs As the audit subsystem predated the work to enable multiple LSMs, some additional work was needed to support logging the different LSM labels for the subjects/tasks and objects on the system. Casey's patches add new auxillary records for subjects and objects that convey the additional labels. - Ensure fanotify audit events are always generated Generally speaking security relevant subsystems always generate audit events, unless explicitly ignored. However, up to this point fanotify events had been ignored by default, but starting with this pull request fanotify follows convention and generates audit events by default. - Replace an instance of strcpy() with strscpy() - Minor indentation, style, and comment fixes * tag 'audit-pr-20250926' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: audit: fix skb leak when audit rate limit is exceeded audit: init ab->skb_list earlier in audit_buffer_alloc() audit: add record for multiple object contexts audit: add record for multiple task security contexts lsm: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection audit: create audit_stamp structure audit: add a missing tab audit: record fanotify event regardless of presence of rules audit: fix typo in auditfilter.c comment audit: Replace deprecated strcpy() with strscpy() audit: fix indentation in audit_log_exit()

security_dentry_init_security(): constify qstr argument

2025-09-16T01:08:33+00:00

Nothing outside of fs/dcache.c has any business modifying dentry names; passing &dentry->d_name as an argument should have that argument declared as a const pointer. Acked-by: Casey Schaufler # smack part Acked-by: Paul Moore Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Al Viro

copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree

2025-09-01T13:31:34+00:00

With the introduction of clone3 in commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") the effective bit width of clone_flags on all architectures was increased from 32-bit to 64-bit, with a new type of u64 for the flags. However, for most consumers of clone_flags the interface was not changed from the previous type of unsigned long. While this works fine as long as none of the new 64-bit flag bits (CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND and CLONE_INTO_CGROUP) are evaluated, this is still undesirable in terms of the principle of least surprise. Thus, this commit fixes all relevant interfaces of callees to sys_clone3/copy_process (excluding the architecture-specific copy_thread) to consistently pass clone_flags as u64, so that no truncation to 32-bit integers occurs on 32-bit architectures. Signed-off-by: Simon Schuster Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250901-nios2-implement-clone3-v2-2-53fcf5577d57@siemens-energy.com Acked-by: David Hildenbrand Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

lsm: security_lsmblob_to_secctx module selection

2025-08-30T14:15:29+00:00

Add a parameter lsmid to security_lsmblob_to_secctx() to identify which of the security modules that may be active should provide the security context. If the value of lsmid is LSM_ID_UNDEF the first LSM providing a hook is used. security_secid_to_secctx() is unchanged, and will always report the first LSM providing a hook. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler [PM: subj tweak] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore