linux/security
Paul Moore bc24d1c702 selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded
commit f64410ec66 upstream.

This patch is based on an earlier patch by Eric Paris, he describes
the problem below:

  "If an inode is accessed before policy load it will get placed on a
   list of inodes to be initialized after policy load.  After policy
   load we call inode_doinit() which calls inode_doinit_with_dentry()
   on all inodes accessed before policy load.  In the case of inodes
   in procfs that means we'll end up at the bottom where it does:

     /* Default to the fs superblock SID. */
     isec->sid = sbsec->sid;

     if ((sbsec->flags & SE_SBPROC) && !S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)) {
             if (opt_dentry) {
                     isec->sclass = inode_mode_to_security_class(...)
                     rc = selinux_proc_get_sid(opt_dentry,
                                               isec->sclass,
                                               &sid);
                     if (rc)
                             goto out_unlock;
                     isec->sid = sid;
             }
     }

   Since opt_dentry is null, we'll never call selinux_proc_get_sid()
   and will leave the inode labeled with the label on the superblock.
   I believe a fix would be to mimic the behavior of xattrs.  Look
   for an alias of the inode.  If it can't be found, just leave the
   inode uninitialized (and pick it up later) if it can be found, we
   should be able to call selinux_proc_get_sid() ..."

On a system exhibiting this problem, you will notice a lot of files in
/proc with the generic "proc_t" type (at least the ones that were
accessed early in the boot), for example:

   # ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 }'
   system_u:object_r:proc_t:s0 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

However, with this patch in place we see the expected result:

   # ls -Z /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax | awk '{ print $4 " " $5 }'
   system_u:object_r:sysctl_kernel_t:s0 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2014-04-14 06:50:02 -07:00
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apparmor Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2013-11-21 19:46:00 -08:00
integrity Merge to v3.13-rc7 for prerequisite changes in the Xen code for TPM 2014-01-06 22:23:01 +11:00
keys KEYS: Make the keyring cycle detector ignore other keyrings of the same name 2014-03-09 18:57:18 -07:00
selinux selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded 2014-04-14 06:50:02 -07:00
smack Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2014-01-23 18:08:10 -08:00
tomoyo Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
yama yama: Better permission check for ptraceme 2013-03-26 13:17:58 -07:00
capability.c selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00
commoncap.c capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged 2013-08-30 23:44:09 -07:00
device_cgroup.c cgroup: replace cftype->read_seq_string() with cftype->seq_show() 2013-12-05 12:28:04 -05:00
inode.c securityfs: fix object creation races 2012-01-10 10:20:35 -05:00
Kconfig security: select correct default LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR on arm on arm64 2014-02-05 14:59:14 +00:00
lsm_audit.c Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/audit 2013-11-21 19:18:14 -08:00
Makefile security: remove erroneous comment about capabilities.o link ordering 2013-09-24 11:26:28 +10:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00