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<updated>2022-12-13T17:47:48+00:00</updated>
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<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T17:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2022-12-13T17:47:48+00:00</published>
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improve the error handling in the device cgroup such that memory
   allocation failures when updating the access policy do not
   potentially alter the policy.

 - Some minor fixes to reiserfs to ensure that it properly releases
   LSM-related xattr values.

 - Update the security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook to take
   sockptr_t values.

   Previously the net/BPF folks updated the getsockopt code in the
   network stack to leverage the sockptr_t type to make it easier to
   pass both kernel and __user pointers, but unfortunately when they did
   so they didn't convert the LSM hook.

   While there was/is no immediate risk by not converting the LSM hook,
   it seems like this is a mistake waiting to happen so this patch
   proactively does the LSM hook conversion.

 - Convert vfs_getxattr_alloc() to return an int instead of a ssize_t
   and cleanup the callers. Internally the function was never going to
   return anything larger than an int and the callers were doing some
   very odd things casting the return value; this patch fixes all that
   and helps bring a bit of sanity to vfs_getxattr_alloc() and its
   callers.

 - More verbose, and helpful, LSM debug output when the system is booted
   with "lsm.debug" on the command line. There are examples in the
   commit description, but the quick summary is that this patch provides
   better information about which LSMs are enabled and the ordering in
   which they are processed.

 - General comment and kernel-doc fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lsm: Fix description of fs_context_parse_param
  lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting
  lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook
  reiserfs: Add missing calls to reiserfs_security_free()
  lsm,fs: fix vfs_getxattr_alloc() return type and caller error paths
  device_cgroup: Roll back to original exceptions after copy failure
  LSM: Better reporting of actual LSMs at boot
  lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe
  audit: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
  lsm: remove obsoleted comments for security hooks
  fs: edit a comment made in bad taste
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<title>Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T17:32:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T17:32:05+00:00</published>
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:
 "Two SELinux patches: one increases the sleep time on deprecated
  functionality, and one removes the indirect calls in the sidtab
  context conversion code"

* tag 'selinux-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  selinux: remove the sidtab context conversion indirect calls
  selinux: increase the deprecation sleep for checkreqprot and runtime disable
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<title>Merge tag 'fs.acl.rework.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T02:46:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T02:46:39+00:00</published>
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Pull VFS acl updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work that builds a dedicated vfs posix acl api.

  The origins of this work trace back to v5.19 but it took quite a while
  to understand the various filesystem specific implementations in
  sufficient detail and also come up with an acceptable solution.

  As we discussed and seen multiple times the current state of how posix
  acls are handled isn't nice and comes with a lot of problems: The
  current way of handling posix acls via the generic xattr api is error
  prone, hard to maintain, and type unsafe for the vfs until we call
  into the filesystem's dedicated get and set inode operations.

  It is already the case that posix acls are special-cased to death all
  the way through the vfs. There are an uncounted number of hacks that
  operate on the uapi posix acl struct instead of the dedicated vfs
  struct posix_acl. And the vfs must be involved in order to interpret
  and fixup posix acls before storing them to the backing store, caching
  them, reporting them to userspace, or for permission checking.

  Currently a range of hacks and duct tape exist to make this work. As
  with most things this is really no ones fault it's just something that
  happened over time. But the code is hard to understand and difficult
  to maintain and one is constantly at risk of introducing bugs and
  regressions when having to touch it.

  Instead of continuing to hack posix acls through the xattr handlers
  this series builds a dedicated posix acl api solely around the get and
  set inode operations.

  Going forward, the vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(), and vfs_set_acl()
  helpers must be used in order to interact with posix acls. They
  operate directly on the vfs internal struct posix_acl instead of
  abusing the uapi posix acl struct as we currently do. In the end this
  removes all of the hackiness, makes the codepaths easier to maintain,
  and gets us type safety.

  This series passes the LTP and xfstests suites without any
  regressions. For xfstests the following combinations were tested:
   - xfs
   - ext4
   - btrfs
   - overlayfs
   - overlayfs on top of idmapped mounts
   - orangefs
   - (limited) cifs

  There's more simplifications for posix acls that we can make in the
  future if the basic api has made it.

  A few implementation details:

   - The series makes sure to retain exactly the same security and
     integrity module permission checks. Especially for the integrity
     modules this api is a win because right now they convert the uapi
     posix acl struct passed to them via a void pointer into the vfs
     struct posix_acl format to perform permission checking on the mode.

     There's a new dedicated security hook for setting posix acls which
     passes the vfs struct posix_acl not a void pointer. Basing checking
     on the posix acl stored in the uapi format is really unreliable.
     The vfs currently hacks around directly in the uapi struct storing
     values that frankly the security and integrity modules can't
     correctly interpret as evidenced by bugs we reported and fixed in
     this area. It's not necessarily even their fault it's just that the
     format we provide to them is sub optimal.

   - Some filesystems like 9p and cifs need access to the dentry in
     order to get and set posix acls which is why they either only
     partially or not even at all implement get and set inode
     operations. For example, cifs allows setxattr() and getxattr()
     operations but doesn't allow permission checking based on posix
     acls because it can't implement a get acl inode operation.

     Thus, this patch series updates the set acl inode operation to take
     a dentry instead of an inode argument. However, for the get acl
     inode operation we can't do this as the old get acl method is
     called in e.g., generic_permission() and inode_permission(). These
     helpers in turn are called in various filesystem's permission inode
     operation. So passing a dentry argument to the old get acl inode
     operation would amount to passing a dentry to the permission inode
     operation which we shouldn't and probably can't do.

     So instead of extending the existing inode operation Christoph
     suggested to add a new one. He also requested to ensure that the
     get and set acl inode operation taking a dentry are consistently
     named. So for this version the old get acl operation is renamed to
     -&gt;get_inode_acl() and a new -&gt;get_acl() inode operation taking a
     dentry is added. With this we can give both 9p and cifs get and set
     acl inode operations and in turn remove their complex custom posix
     xattr handlers.

     In the future I hope to get rid of the inode method duplication but
     it isn't like we have never had this situation. Readdir is just one
     example. And frankly, the overall gain in type safety and the more
     pleasant api wise are simply too big of a benefit to not accept
     this duplication for a while.

   - We've done a full audit of every codepaths using variant of the
     current generic xattr api to get and set posix acls and
     surprisingly it isn't that many places. There's of course always a
     chance that we might have missed some and if so I'm sure we'll find
     them soon enough.

     The crucial codepaths to be converted are obviously stacking
     filesystems such as ecryptfs and overlayfs.

     For a list of all callers currently using generic xattr api helpers
     see [2] including comments whether they support posix acls or not.

   - The old vfs generic posix acl infrastructure doesn't obey the
     create and replace semantics promised on the setxattr(2) manpage.
     This patch series doesn't address this. It really is something we
     should revisit later though.

  The patches are roughly organized as follows:

   (1) Change existing set acl inode operation to take a dentry
       argument (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (2) Rename existing get acl method (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (3) Implement get and set acl inode operations for filesystems that
       couldn't implement one before because of the missing dentry.
       That's mostly 9p and cifs (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (4) Build posix acl api, i.e., add vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(),
       and vfs_set_acl() including security and integrity hooks
       (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (5) Implement get and set acl inode operations for stacking
       filesystems (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (6) Switch posix acl handling in stacking filesystems to new posix
       acl api now that all filesystems it can stack upon support it.

   (7) Switch vfs to new posix acl api (semantical change)

   (8) Remove all now unused helpers

   (9) Additional regression fixes reported after we merged this into
       linux-next

  Thanks to Seth for a lot of good discussion around this and
  encouragement and input from Christoph"

* tag 'fs.acl.rework.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (36 commits)
  posix_acl: Fix the type of sentinel in get_acl
  orangefs: fix mode handling
  ovl: call posix_acl_release() after error checking
  evm: remove dead code in evm_inode_set_acl()
  cifs: check whether acl is valid early
  acl: make vfs_posix_acl_to_xattr() static
  acl: remove a slew of now unused helpers
  9p: use stub posix acl handlers
  cifs: use stub posix acl handlers
  ovl: use stub posix acl handlers
  ecryptfs: use stub posix acl handlers
  evm: remove evm_xattr_acl_change()
  xattr: use posix acl api
  ovl: use posix acl api
  ovl: implement set acl method
  ovl: implement get acl method
  ecryptfs: implement set acl method
  ecryptfs: implement get acl method
  ksmbd: use vfs_remove_acl()
  acl: add vfs_remove_acl()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>selinux: remove the sidtab context conversion indirect calls</title>
<updated>2022-11-09T16:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-08T18:01:19+00:00</published>
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The sidtab conversion code has support for multiple context
conversion routines through the use of function pointers and
indirect calls.  However, the reality is that all current users rely
on the same conversion routine: convert_context().  This patch does
away with this extra complexity and replaces the indirect calls
with direct function calls; allowing us to remove a layer of
obfuscation and create cleaner, more maintainable code.

Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</content>
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<entry>
<title>lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe</title>
<updated>2022-11-05T03:25:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T16:31:21+00:00</published>
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Commit 4ff09db1b79b ("bpf: net: Change sk_getsockopt() to take the
sockptr_t argument") made it possible to call sk_getsockopt()
with both user and kernel address space buffers through the use of
the sockptr_t type.  Unfortunately at the time of conversion the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook was written to only
accept userspace buffers, and in a desire to avoid having to change
the LSM hook the commit author simply passed the sockptr_t's
userspace buffer pointer.  Since the only sk_getsockopt() callers
at the time of conversion which used kernel sockptr_t buffers did
not allow SO_PEERSEC, and hence the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() hook, this was acceptable but
also very fragile as future changes presented the possibility of
silently passing kernel space pointers to the LSM hook.

There are several ways to protect against this, including careful
code review of future commits, but since relying on code review to
catch bugs is a recipe for disaster and the upstream eBPF maintainer
is "strongly against defensive programming", this patch updates the
LSM hook, and all of the implementations to support sockptr_t and
safely handle both user and kernel space buffers.

Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: implement get, set and remove acl hook</title>
<updated>2022-10-20T08:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T15:17:08+00:00</published>
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

So far posix acls were passed as a void blob to the security and
integrity modules. Some of them like evm then proceed to interpret the
void pointer and convert it into the kernel internal struct posix acl
representation to perform their integrity checking magic. This is
obviously pretty problematic as that requires knowledge that only the
vfs is guaranteed to have and has lead to various bugs. Add a proper
security hook for setting posix acls and pass down the posix acls in
their appropriate vfs format instead of hacking it through a void
pointer stored in the uapi format.

I spent considerate time in the security module infrastructure and
audited all codepaths. SELinux has no restrictions based on the posix
acl values passed through it. The capability hook doesn't need to be
called either because it only has restrictions on security.* xattrs. So
these are all fairly simply hooks for SELinux.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: enable use of both GFP_KERNEL and GFP_ATOMIC in convert_context()</title>
<updated>2022-10-19T13:55:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>GONG, Ruiqi</name>
<email>gongruiqi1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-19T02:57:10+00:00</published>
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The following warning was triggered on a hardware environment:

  SELinux: Converting 162 SID table entries...
  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
       __might_sleep+0x60/0x74 0x0
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 5943, name: tar
  CPU: 7 PID: 5943 Comm: tar Tainted: P O 5.10.0 #1
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8
   show_stack+0x18/0x28
   dump_stack+0xe8/0x15c
   ___might_sleep+0x168/0x17c
   __might_sleep+0x60/0x74
   __kmalloc_track_caller+0xa0/0x7dc
   kstrdup+0x54/0xac
   convert_context+0x48/0x2e4
   sidtab_context_to_sid+0x1c4/0x36c
   security_context_to_sid_core+0x168/0x238
   security_context_to_sid_default+0x14/0x24
   inode_doinit_use_xattr+0x164/0x1e4
   inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x1c0/0x488
   selinux_d_instantiate+0x20/0x34
   security_d_instantiate+0x70/0xbc
   d_splice_alias+0x4c/0x3c0
   ext4_lookup+0x1d8/0x200 [ext4]
   __lookup_slow+0x12c/0x1e4
   walk_component+0x100/0x200
   path_lookupat+0x88/0x118
   filename_lookup+0x98/0x130
   user_path_at_empty+0x48/0x60
   vfs_statx+0x84/0x140
   vfs_fstatat+0x20/0x30
   __se_sys_newfstatat+0x30/0x74
   __arm64_sys_newfstatat+0x1c/0x2c
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x100/0x184
   do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x2c
   el0_svc+0x20/0x34
   el0_sync_handler+0x80/0x17c
   el0_sync+0x13c/0x140
  SELinux: Context system_u:object_r:pssp_rsyslog_log_t:s0:c0 is
           not valid (left unmapped).

It was found that within a critical section of spin_lock_irqsave in
sidtab_context_to_sid(), convert_context() (hooked by
sidtab_convert_params.func) might cause the process to sleep via
allocating memory with GFP_KERNEL, which is problematic.

As Ondrej pointed out [1], convert_context()/sidtab_convert_params.func
has another caller sidtab_convert_tree(), which is okay with GFP_KERNEL.
Therefore, fix this problem by adding a gfp_t argument for
convert_context()/sidtab_convert_params.func and pass GFP_KERNEL/_ATOMIC
properly in individual callers.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221018120111.1474581-1-gongruiqi1@huawei.com/ [1]
Reported-by: Tan Ninghao &lt;tanninghao1@huawei.com&gt;
Fixes: ee1a84fdfeed ("selinux: overhaul sidtab to fix bug and improve performance")
Signed-off-by: GONG, Ruiqi &lt;gongruiqi1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
[PM: wrap long BUG() output lines, tweak subject line]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>selinux: increase the deprecation sleep for checkreqprot and runtime disable</title>
<updated>2022-10-17T20:15:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-23T01:50:22+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Further the checkreqprot and runtime disable deprecation efforts by
increasing the sleep time from 5 to 15 seconds to help make this more
noticeable for any users who are still using these knobs.

Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-10-07T00:31:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-07T00:31:02+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull vfs constification updates from Al Viro:
 "whack-a-mole: constifying struct path *"

* tag 'pull-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ecryptfs: constify path
  spufs: constify path
  nd_jump_link(): constify path
  audit_init_parent(): constify path
  __io_setxattr(): constify path
  do_proc_readlink(): constify path
  overlayfs: constify path
  fs/notify: constify path
  may_linkat(): constify path
  do_sys_name_to_handle(): constify path
  -&gt;getprocattr(): attribute name is const char *, TYVM...
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20221003' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2022-10-04T00:51:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-04T00:51:52+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull LSM updates from Paul Moore:
 "Seven patches for the LSM layer and we've got a mix of trivial and
  significant patches. Highlights below, starting with the smaller bits
  first so they don't get lost in the discussion of the larger items:

   - Remove some redundant NULL pointer checks in the common LSM audit
     code.

   - Ratelimit the lockdown LSM's access denial messages.

     With this change there is a chance that the last visible lockdown
     message on the console is outdated/old, but it does help preserve
     the initial series of lockdown denials that started the denial
     message flood and my gut feeling is that these might be the more
     valuable messages.

   - Open userfaultfds as readonly instead of read/write.

     While this code obviously lives outside the LSM, it does have a
     noticeable impact on the LSMs with Ondrej explaining the situation
     in the commit description. It is worth noting that this patch
     languished on the VFS list for over a year without any comments
     (objections or otherwise) so I took the liberty of pulling it into
     the LSM tree after giving fair notice. It has been in linux-next
     since the end of August without any noticeable problems.

   - Add a LSM hook for user namespace creation, with implementations
     for both the BPF LSM and SELinux.

     Even though the changes are fairly small, this is the bulk of the
     diffstat as we are also including BPF LSM selftests for the new
     hook.

     It's also the most contentious of the changes in this pull request
     with Eric Biederman NACK'ing the LSM hook multiple times during its
     development and discussion upstream. While I've never taken NACK's
     lightly, I'm sending these patches to you because it is my belief
     that they are of good quality, satisfy a long-standing need of
     users and distros, and are in keeping with the existing nature of
     the LSM layer and the Linux Kernel as a whole.

     The patches in implement a LSM hook for user namespace creation
     that allows for a granular approach, configurable at runtime, which
     enables both monitoring and control of user namespaces. The general
     consensus has been that this is far preferable to the other
     solutions that have been adopted downstream including outright
     removal from the kernel, disabling via system wide sysctls, or
     various other out-of-tree mechanisms that users have been forced to
     adopt since we haven't been able to provide them an upstream
     solution for their requests. Eric has been steadfast in his
     objections to this LSM hook, explaining that any restrictions on
     the user namespace could have significant impact on userspace.
     While there is the possibility of impacting userspace, it is
     important to note that this solution only impacts userspace when it
     is requested based on the runtime configuration supplied by the
     distro/admin/user. Frederick (the pathset author), the LSM/security
     community, and myself have tried to work with Eric during
     development of this patchset to find a mutually acceptable
     solution, but Eric's approach and unwillingness to engage in a
     meaningful way have made this impossible. I have CC'd Eric directly
     on this pull request so he has a chance to provide his side of the
     story; there have been no objections outside of Eric's"

* tag 'lsm-pr-20221003' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lockdown: ratelimit denial messages
  userfaultfd: open userfaultfds with O_RDONLY
  selinux: Implement userns_create hook
  selftests/bpf: Add tests verifying bpf lsm userns_create hook
  bpf-lsm: Make bpf_lsm_userns_create() sleepable
  security, lsm: Introduce security_create_user_ns()
  lsm: clean up redundant NULL pointer check
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