linux/security/selinux
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>
2014-04-14 06:50:02 -07:00
..
include selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00
ss selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00
.gitignore
Kconfig
Makefile
avc.c selinux: remove 'flags' parameter from avc_audit() 2013-10-04 14:13:25 -07:00
exports.c
hooks.c selinux: correctly label /proc inodes in use before the policy is loaded 2014-04-14 06:50:02 -07:00
netif.c net: pass info struct via netdevice notifier 2013-05-28 13:11:01 -07:00
netlabel.c selinux: ensure that the cached NetLabel secattr matches the desired SID 2013-12-04 16:08:17 -05:00
netlink.c selinux: replace obsolete NLMSG_* with type safe nlmsg_* 2013-03-28 14:25:49 -04:00
netnode.c selinux: fix problems in netnode when BUG() is compiled out 2013-07-25 13:03:27 -04:00
netport.c
nlmsgtab.c selinux: add SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY to the list of netlink message types 2014-02-05 12:20:48 -05:00
selinuxfs.c selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00
xfrm.c selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers 2014-03-10 08:30:02 +01:00