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<entry>
<title>lsm: fix the logic in security_inode_getsecctx()</title>
<updated>2024-02-23T08:12:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-26T10:44:03+00:00</published>
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commit 99b817c173cd213671daecd25ca27f56b0c7c4ec upstream.

The inode_getsecctx LSM hook has previously been corrected to have
-EOPNOTSUPP instead of 0 as the default return value to fix BPF LSM
behavior. However, the call_int_hook()-generated loop in
security_inode_getsecctx() was left treating 0 as the neutral value, so
after an LSM returns 0, the loop continues to try other LSMs, and if one
of them returns a non-zero value, the function immediately returns with
said value. So in a situation where SELinux and the BPF LSMs registered
this hook, -EOPNOTSUPP would be incorrectly returned whenever SELinux
returned 0.

Fix this by open-coding the call_int_hook() loop and making it use the
correct LSM_RET_DEFAULT() value as the neutral one, similar to what
other hooks do.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/CAEjxPJ4ev-pasUwGx48fDhnmjBnq_Wh90jYPwRQRAqXxmOKD4Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257983
Fixes: b36995b8609a ("lsm: fix default return value for inode_getsecctx")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 99b817c173cd213671daecd25ca27f56b0c7c4ec upstream.

The inode_getsecctx LSM hook has previously been corrected to have
-EOPNOTSUPP instead of 0 as the default return value to fix BPF LSM
behavior. However, the call_int_hook()-generated loop in
security_inode_getsecctx() was left treating 0 as the neutral value, so
after an LSM returns 0, the loop continues to try other LSMs, and if one
of them returns a non-zero value, the function immediately returns with
said value. So in a situation where SELinux and the BPF LSMs registered
this hook, -EOPNOTSUPP would be incorrectly returned whenever SELinux
returned 0.

Fix this by open-coding the call_int_hook() loop and making it use the
correct LSM_RET_DEFAULT() value as the neutral one, similar to what
other hooks do.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/CAEjxPJ4ev-pasUwGx48fDhnmjBnq_Wh90jYPwRQRAqXxmOKD4Q@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2257983
Fixes: b36995b8609a ("lsm: fix default return value for inode_getsecctx")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:17:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alfred Piccioni</name>
<email>alpic@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-19T09:09:09+00:00</published>
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commit f1bb47a31dff6d4b34fb14e99850860ee74bb003 upstream.

Some ioctl commands do not require ioctl permission, but are routed to
other permissions such as FILE_GETATTR or FILE_SETATTR. This routing is
done by comparing the ioctl cmd to a set of 64-bit flags (FS_IOC_*).

However, if a 32-bit process is running on a 64-bit kernel, it emits
32-bit flags (FS_IOC32_*) for certain ioctl operations. These flags are
being checked erroneously, which leads to these ioctl operations being
routed to the ioctl permission, rather than the correct file
permissions.

This was also noted in a RED-PEN finding from a while back -
"/* RED-PEN how should LSM module know it's handling 32bit? */".

This patch introduces a new hook, security_file_ioctl_compat(), that is
called from the compat ioctl syscall. All current LSMs have been changed
to support this hook.

Reviewing the three places where we are currently using
security_file_ioctl(), it appears that only SELinux needs a dedicated
compat change; TOMOYO and SMACK appear to be functional without any
change.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0b24dcb7f2f7 ("Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"")
Signed-off-by: Alfred Piccioni &lt;alpic@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
[PM: subject tweak, line length fixes, and alignment corrections]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit f1bb47a31dff6d4b34fb14e99850860ee74bb003 upstream.

Some ioctl commands do not require ioctl permission, but are routed to
other permissions such as FILE_GETATTR or FILE_SETATTR. This routing is
done by comparing the ioctl cmd to a set of 64-bit flags (FS_IOC_*).

However, if a 32-bit process is running on a 64-bit kernel, it emits
32-bit flags (FS_IOC32_*) for certain ioctl operations. These flags are
being checked erroneously, which leads to these ioctl operations being
routed to the ioctl permission, rather than the correct file
permissions.

This was also noted in a RED-PEN finding from a while back -
"/* RED-PEN how should LSM module know it's handling 32bit? */".

This patch introduces a new hook, security_file_ioctl_compat(), that is
called from the compat ioctl syscall. All current LSMs have been changed
to support this hook.

Reviewing the three places where we are currently using
security_file_ioctl(), it appears that only SELinux needs a dedicated
compat change; TOMOYO and SMACK appear to be functional without any
change.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 0b24dcb7f2f7 ("Revert "selinux: simplify ioctl checking"")
Signed-off-by: Alfred Piccioni &lt;alpic@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
[PM: subject tweak, line length fixes, and alignment corrections]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing</title>
<updated>2023-09-13T07:42:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T11:34:20+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit d80a8f1b58c2bc8d7c6bfb65401ea4f7ec8cddc2 ]

When NFS superblocks are created by automounting, their LSM parameters
aren't set in the fs_context struct prior to sget_fc() being called,
leading to failure to match existing superblocks.

This bug leads to messages like the following appearing in dmesg when
fscache is enabled:

    NFS: Cache volume key already in use (nfs,4.2,2,108,106a8c0,1,,,,100000,100000,2ee,3a98,1d4c,3a98,1)

Fix this by adding a new LSM hook to load fc-&gt;security for submount
creation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165962680944.3334508.6610023900349142034.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165962729225.3357250.14350728846471527137.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165970659095.2812394.6868894171102318796.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166133579016.3678898.6283195019480567275.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/217595.1662033775@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Fixes: 9bc61ab18b1d ("vfs: Introduce fs_context, switch vfs_kern_mount() to it.")
Fixes: 779df6a5480f ("NFS: Ensure security label is set for root inode")
Tested-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230808-master-v9-1-e0ecde888221@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d80a8f1b58c2bc8d7c6bfb65401ea4f7ec8cddc2 ]

When NFS superblocks are created by automounting, their LSM parameters
aren't set in the fs_context struct prior to sget_fc() being called,
leading to failure to match existing superblocks.

This bug leads to messages like the following appearing in dmesg when
fscache is enabled:

    NFS: Cache volume key already in use (nfs,4.2,2,108,106a8c0,1,,,,100000,100000,2ee,3a98,1d4c,3a98,1)

Fix this by adding a new LSM hook to load fc-&gt;security for submount
creation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165962680944.3334508.6610023900349142034.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165962729225.3357250.14350728846471527137.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/165970659095.2812394.6868894171102318796.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166133579016.3678898.6283195019480567275.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/217595.1662033775@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v5
Fixes: 9bc61ab18b1d ("vfs: Introduce fs_context, switch vfs_kern_mount() to it.")
Fixes: 779df6a5480f ("NFS: Ensure security label is set for root inode")
Tested-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20230808-master-v9-1-e0ecde888221@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ima: Align ima_file_mmap() parameters with mmap_file LSM hook</title>
<updated>2023-03-10T08:34:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roberto Sassu</name>
<email>roberto.sassu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-31T17:42:43+00:00</published>
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commit 4971c268b85e1c7a734a61622fc0813c86e2362e upstream.

Commit 98de59bfe4b2f ("take calculation of final prot in
security_mmap_file() into a helper") moved the code to update prot, to be
the actual protections applied to the kernel, to a new helper called
mmap_prot().

However, while without the helper ima_file_mmap() was getting the updated
prot, with the helper ima_file_mmap() gets the original prot, which
contains the protections requested by the application.

A possible consequence of this change is that, if an application calls
mmap() with only PROT_READ, and the kernel applies PROT_EXEC in addition,
that application would have access to executable memory without having this
event recorded in the IMA measurement list. This situation would occur for
example if the application, before mmap(), calls the personality() system
call with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC as the first argument.

Align ima_file_mmap() parameters with those of the mmap_file LSM hook, so
that IMA can receive both the requested prot and the final prot. Since the
requested protections are stored in a new variable, and the final
protections are stored in the existing variable, this effectively restores
the original behavior of the MMAP_CHECK hook.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 98de59bfe4b2 ("take calculation of final prot in security_mmap_file() into a helper")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 4971c268b85e1c7a734a61622fc0813c86e2362e upstream.

Commit 98de59bfe4b2f ("take calculation of final prot in
security_mmap_file() into a helper") moved the code to update prot, to be
the actual protections applied to the kernel, to a new helper called
mmap_prot().

However, while without the helper ima_file_mmap() was getting the updated
prot, with the helper ima_file_mmap() gets the original prot, which
contains the protections requested by the application.

A possible consequence of this change is that, if an application calls
mmap() with only PROT_READ, and the kernel applies PROT_EXEC in addition,
that application would have access to executable memory without having this
event recorded in the IMA measurement list. This situation would occur for
example if the application, before mmap(), calls the personality() system
call with READ_IMPLIES_EXEC as the first argument.

Align ima_file_mmap() parameters with those of the mmap_file LSM hook, so
that IMA can receive both the requested prot and the final prot. Since the
requested protections are stored in a new variable, and the final
protections are stored in the existing variable, this effectively restores
the original behavior of the MMAP_CHECK hook.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 98de59bfe4b2 ("take calculation of final prot in security_mmap_file() into a helper")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger &lt;stefanb@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar &lt;zohar@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-6.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2022-10-09T21:05:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-09T21:05:15+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Remove our now never-true definitions for pgd_huge() and p4d_leaf().

 - Add pte_needs_flush() and huge_pmd_needs_flush() for 64-bit.

 - Add support for syscall wrappers.

 - Add support for KFENCE on 64-bit.

 - Update 64-bit HV KVM to use the new guest state entry/exit accounting
   API.

 - Support execute-only memory when using the Radix MMU (P9 or later).

 - Implement CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING for pseries guests.

 - Updates to our linker script to move more data into read-only
   sections.

 - Allow the VDSO to be randomised on 32-bit.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, David Hildenbrand, Disha Goel, Fabiano Rosas,
Gaosheng Cui, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jilin
Yuan, Joel Stanley, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Laurent
Dufour, Liang He, Li Huafei, Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Nathan
Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Pali
Rohár, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Segher Boessenkool,
Shrikanth Hegde, Tyrel Datwyler, Wolfram Sang, ye xingchen, and Zheng
Yongjun.

* tag 'powerpc-6.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack frame regs marker
  powerpc: Don't add __powerpc_ prefix to syscall entry points
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix stack frame regs marker
  powerpc/64: Fix msr_check_and_set/clear MSR[EE] race
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: Change must-hard-mask interrupt check from BUG to WARN
  powerpc/pseries: Add firmware details to the hardware description
  powerpc/powernv: Add opal details to the hardware description
  powerpc: Add device-tree model to the hardware description
  powerpc/64: Add logical PVR to the hardware description
  powerpc: Add PVR &amp; CPU name to hardware description
  powerpc: Add hardware description string
  powerpc/configs: Enable PPC_UV in powernv_defconfig
  powerpc/configs: Update config files for removed/renamed symbols
  powerpc/mm: Fix UBSAN warning reported on hugetlb
  powerpc/mm: Always update max/min_low_pfn in mem_topology_setup()
  powerpc/mm/book3s/hash: Rename flush_tlb_pmd_range
  powerpc: Drops STABS_DEBUG from linker scripts
  powerpc/64s: Remove lost/old comment
  powerpc/64s: Remove old STAB comment
  powerpc: remove orphan systbl_chk.sh
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Remove our now never-true definitions for pgd_huge() and p4d_leaf().

 - Add pte_needs_flush() and huge_pmd_needs_flush() for 64-bit.

 - Add support for syscall wrappers.

 - Add support for KFENCE on 64-bit.

 - Update 64-bit HV KVM to use the new guest state entry/exit accounting
   API.

 - Support execute-only memory when using the Radix MMU (P9 or later).

 - Implement CONFIG_PARAVIRT_TIME_ACCOUNTING for pseries guests.

 - Updates to our linker script to move more data into read-only
   sections.

 - Allow the VDSO to be randomised on 32-bit.

 - Many other small features and fixes.

Thanks to Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Athira
Rajeev, Christophe Leroy, David Hildenbrand, Disha Goel, Fabiano Rosas,
Gaosheng Cui, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Jilin
Yuan, Joel Stanley, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Krzysztof Kozlowski, Laurent
Dufour, Liang He, Li Huafei, Lukas Bulwahn, Madhavan Srinivasan, Nathan
Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Pali
Rohár, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Segher Boessenkool,
Shrikanth Hegde, Tyrel Datwyler, Wolfram Sang, ye xingchen, and Zheng
Yongjun.

* tag 'powerpc-6.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits)
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix stack frame regs marker
  powerpc: Don't add __powerpc_ prefix to syscall entry points
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: Fix stack frame regs marker
  powerpc/64: Fix msr_check_and_set/clear MSR[EE] race
  powerpc/64s/interrupt: Change must-hard-mask interrupt check from BUG to WARN
  powerpc/pseries: Add firmware details to the hardware description
  powerpc/powernv: Add opal details to the hardware description
  powerpc: Add device-tree model to the hardware description
  powerpc/64: Add logical PVR to the hardware description
  powerpc: Add PVR &amp; CPU name to hardware description
  powerpc: Add hardware description string
  powerpc/configs: Enable PPC_UV in powernv_defconfig
  powerpc/configs: Update config files for removed/renamed symbols
  powerpc/mm: Fix UBSAN warning reported on hugetlb
  powerpc/mm: Always update max/min_low_pfn in mem_topology_setup()
  powerpc/mm/book3s/hash: Rename flush_tlb_pmd_range
  powerpc: Drops STABS_DEBUG from linker scripts
  powerpc/64s: Remove lost/old comment
  powerpc/64s: Remove old STAB comment
  powerpc: remove orphan systbl_chk.sh
  ...
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<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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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...
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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...
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<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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=26b84401da8458c5cbd6818d5732f7bbb84124a2'/>
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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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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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<entry>
<title>powerpc/rtas: block error injection when locked down</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T09:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-26T13:16:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=b8f3e48834fe8c86b4f21739c6effd160e2c2c19'/>
<id>b8f3e48834fe8c86b4f21739c6effd160e2c2c19</id>
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The error injection facility on pseries VMs allows corruption of
arbitrary guest memory, potentially enabling a sufficiently privileged
user to disable lockdown or perform other modifications of the running
kernel via the rtas syscall.

Block the PAPR error injection facility from being opened or called
when locked down.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt; (LSM)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926131643.146502-3-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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The error injection facility on pseries VMs allows corruption of
arbitrary guest memory, potentially enabling a sufficiently privileged
user to disable lockdown or perform other modifications of the running
kernel via the rtas syscall.

Block the PAPR error injection facility from being opened or called
when locked down.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt; (LSM)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926131643.146502-3-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/pseries: block untrusted device tree changes when locked down</title>
<updated>2022-09-28T09:22:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nathan Lynch</name>
<email>nathanl@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-26T13:16:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=99df7a2810b6d24651d4887ab61a142e042fb235'/>
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The /proc/powerpc/ofdt interface allows the root user to freely alter
the in-kernel device tree, enabling arbitrary physical address writes
via drivers that could bind to malicious device nodes, thus making it
possible to disable lockdown.

Historically this interface has been used on the pseries platform to
facilitate the runtime addition and removal of processor, memory, and
device resources (aka Dynamic Logical Partitioning or DLPAR). Years
ago, the processor and memory use cases were migrated to designs that
happen to be lockdown-friendly: device tree updates are communicated
directly to the kernel from firmware without passing through untrusted
user space. I/O device DLPAR via the "drmgr" command in powerpc-utils
remains the sole legitimate user of /proc/powerpc/ofdt, but it is
already broken in lockdown since it uses /dev/mem to allocate argument
buffers for the rtas syscall. So only illegitimate uses of the
interface should see a behavior change when running on a locked down
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt; (LSM)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926131643.146502-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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The /proc/powerpc/ofdt interface allows the root user to freely alter
the in-kernel device tree, enabling arbitrary physical address writes
via drivers that could bind to malicious device nodes, thus making it
possible to disable lockdown.

Historically this interface has been used on the pseries platform to
facilitate the runtime addition and removal of processor, memory, and
device resources (aka Dynamic Logical Partitioning or DLPAR). Years
ago, the processor and memory use cases were migrated to designs that
happen to be lockdown-friendly: device tree updates are communicated
directly to the kernel from firmware without passing through untrusted
user space. I/O device DLPAR via the "drmgr" command in powerpc-utils
remains the sole legitimate user of /proc/powerpc/ofdt, but it is
already broken in lockdown since it uses /dev/mem to allocate argument
buffers for the rtas syscall. So only illegitimate uses of the
interface should see a behavior change when running on a locked down
kernel.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch &lt;nathanl@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt; (LSM)
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926131643.146502-2-nathanl@linux.ibm.com

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>-&gt;getprocattr(): attribute name is const char *, TYVM...</title>
<updated>2022-09-01T21:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-31T00:57:52+00:00</published>
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<id>c8e477c649b40c1a073b7a843d89e51dc0037db7</id>
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cast of -&gt;d_name.name to char * is completely wrong - nothing is
allowed to modify its contents.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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cast of -&gt;d_name.name to char * is completely wrong - nothing is
allowed to modify its contents.

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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