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authorRoberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>2023-11-16 10:01:24 +0100
committerCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2024-01-24 14:06:26 -0800
commite63d86b8b76437815fc040e8e65da257c28ba922 (patch)
tree394e09b7213aa0fc16e3f0f63619bea0cfb6408f /security
parent51b15e7990cb5ac42c3aba82f46e1d95e0dd2310 (diff)
downloadlinux-e63d86b8b76437815fc040e8e65da257c28ba922.tar.gz
smack: Initialize the in-memory inode in smack_inode_init_security()
Currently, Smack initializes in-memory new inodes in three steps. It first sets the xattrs in smack_inode_init_security(), fetches them in smack_d_instantiate() and finally, in the same function, sets the in-memory inodes depending on xattr values, unless they are in specially-handled filesystems. Other than being inefficient, this also prevents filesystems not supporting xattrs from working properly since, without xattrs, there is no way to pass the label determined in smack_inode_init_security() to smack_d_instantiate(). Since the LSM infrastructure allows setting and getting the security field without xattrs through the inode_setsecurity and inode_getsecurity hooks, make the inode creation work too, by initializing the in-memory inode earlier in smack_inode_init_security(). Also mark the inode as instantiated, to prevent smack_d_instantiate() from overwriting the security field. As mentioned above, this potentially has impact for inodes in specially-handled filesystems in smack_d_instantiate(), if they are not handled in the same way in smack_inode_init_security(). Filesystems other than tmpfs don't call security_inode_init_security(), so they would be always initialized in smack_d_instantiate(), as before. For tmpfs, the current behavior is to assign to inodes the label '*', but actually that label is overwritten with the one fetched from the SMACK64 xattr, set in smack_inode_init_security() (default: '_'). Initializing the in-memory inode is straightforward: if not transmuting, nothing more needs to be done; if transmuting, overwrite the current inode label with the one from the parent directory, and set SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE. Finally, set SMK_INODE_INSTANT for all cases, to mark the inode as instantiated. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/smack/smack_lsm.c7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 2ec3f33452006e..d52d2a7a813d76 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -994,6 +994,7 @@ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
struct xattr *xattrs, int *xattr_count)
{
struct task_smack *tsp = smack_cred(current_cred());
+ struct inode_smack *issp = smack_inode(inode);
struct smack_known *skp = smk_of_task(tsp);
struct smack_known *isp = smk_of_inode(inode);
struct smack_known *dsp = smk_of_inode(dir);
@@ -1029,7 +1030,9 @@ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
* smack_inode_alloc_security().
*/
if (tsp->smk_task != tsp->smk_transmuted)
- isp = dsp;
+ isp = issp->smk_inode = dsp;
+
+ issp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE;
xattr_transmute = lsm_get_xattr_slot(xattrs,
xattr_count);
if (xattr_transmute) {
@@ -1044,6 +1047,8 @@ static int smack_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
}
}
+ issp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_INSTANT;
+
if (xattr) {
xattr->value = kstrdup(isp->smk_known, GFP_NOFS);
if (!xattr->value)