lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook

commit f1bb47a31dff6d4b34fb14e99850860ee74bb003 upstream.

Some ioctl commands do not require ioctl permission, but are routed to
other permissions such as

lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook

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 <alpic@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
[PM: subject tweak, line length fixes, and alignment corrections]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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selinux: Fix error priority for bind with AF_UNSPEC on PF_INET6 socket

[ Upstream commit bbf5a1d0e5d0fb3bdf90205aa872636122692a50 ]

The IPv6 network stack first checks the sockaddr length (-EINVAL

selinux: Fix error priority for bind with AF_UNSPEC on PF_INET6 socket

[ Upstream commit bbf5a1d0e5d0fb3bdf90205aa872636122692a50 ]

The IPv6 network stack first checks the sockaddr length (-EINVAL error)
before checking the family (-EAFNOSUPPORT error).

This was discovered thanks to commit a549d055a22e ("selftests/landlock:
Add network tests").

Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Konstantin Meskhidze <konstantin.meskhidze@huawei.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/0584f91c-537c-4188-9e4f-04f192565667@collabora.com
Fixes: 0f8db8cc73df ("selinux: add AF_UNSPEC and INADDR_ANY checks to selinux_socket_bind()")
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Tested-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

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cred: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS

commit ae1914174a63a558113e80d24ccac2773f9f7b2b upstream.

This code is rarely (never?) enabled by distros, and it hasn't caught
anything in decades. Let's

cred: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS

commit ae1914174a63a558113e80d24ccac2773f9f7b2b upstream.

This code is rarely (never?) enabled by distros, and it hasn't caught
anything in decades. Let's kill off this legacy debug code.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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selinux: fix handling of empty opts in selinux_fs_context_submount()

selinux_set_mnt_opts() relies on the fact that the mount options pointer
is always NULL when all options are unset (specifically

selinux: fix handling of empty opts in selinux_fs_context_submount()

selinux_set_mnt_opts() relies on the fact that the mount options pointer
is always NULL when all options are unset (specifically in its
!selinux_initialized() branch. However, the new
selinux_fs_context_submount() hook breaks this rule by allocating a new
structure even if no options are set. That causes any submount created
before a SELinux policy is loaded to be rejected in
selinux_set_mnt_opts().

Fix this by making selinux_fs_context_submount() leave fc->security
set to NULL when there are no options to be copied from the reference
superblock.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-by: Adam Williamson <awilliam@redhat.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2236345
Fixes: d80a8f1b58c2 ("vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: use vma_is_initial_stack() and vma_is_initial_heap()

Use the helpers to simplify code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230728050043.59880-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefe

selinux: use vma_is_initial_stack() and vma_is_initial_heap()

Use the helpers to simplify code.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230728050043.59880-4-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Felix Kuehling <felix.kuehling@amd.com>
Cc: "Pan, Xinhui" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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lsm: constify the 'file' parameter in security_binder_transfer_file()

SELinux registers the implementation for the "binder_transfer_file"
hook. Looking at the function implementation we observe that

lsm: constify the 'file' parameter in security_binder_transfer_file()

SELinux registers the implementation for the "binder_transfer_file"
hook. Looking at the function implementation we observe that the
parameter "file" is not changing.

Mark the "file" parameter of LSM hook security_binder_transfer_file() as
"const" since it will not be changing in the LSM hook.

Signed-off-by: Khadija Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@gmail.com>
[PM: subject line whitespace fix]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing

When NFS superblocks are created by automounting, their LSM parameters
aren't set in the fs_context struct prior t

vfs, security: Fix automount superblock LSM init problem, preventing NFS sb sharing

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->security for submount
creation.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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 <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230808-master-v9-1-e0ecde888221@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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selinux: revert SECINITSID_INIT support

This commit reverts 5b0eea835d4e ("selinux: introduce an initial SID
for early boot processes") as it was found to cause problems on
distros with old SELinux

selinux: revert SECINITSID_INIT support

This commit reverts 5b0eea835d4e ("selinux: introduce an initial SID
for early boot processes") as it was found to cause problems on
distros with old SELinux userspace tools/libraries, specifically
Ubuntu 16.04.

Hopefully we will be able to re-add this functionality at a later
date, but let's revert this for now to help ensure a stable and
backwards compatible SELinux tree.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/87edkseqf8.fsf@mail.lhotse
Acked-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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lsm: constify the 'target' parameter in security_capget()

Three LSMs register the implementations for the "capget" hook: AppArmor,
SELinux, and the normal capability code. Looking at the function
im

lsm: constify the 'target' parameter in security_capget()

Three LSMs register the implementations for the "capget" hook: AppArmor,
SELinux, and the normal capability code. Looking at the function
implementations we may observe that the first parameter "target" is not
changing.

Mark the first argument "target" of LSM hook security_capget() as
"const" since it will not be changing in the LSM hook.

cap_capget() LSM hook declaration exceeds the 80 characters per line
limit. Split the function declaration to multiple lines to decrease the
line length.

Signed-off-by: Khadija Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
[PM: align the cap_capget() declaration, spelling fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: update comment on selinux_hooks[]

After commit f22f9aaf6c3d ("selinux: remove the runtime disable
functionality"), the comment on selinux_hooks[] is out-of-date,
remove the last paragraph a

selinux: update comment on selinux_hooks[]

After commit f22f9aaf6c3d ("selinux: remove the runtime disable
functionality"), the comment on selinux_hooks[] is out-of-date,
remove the last paragraph about runtime disable functionality.

Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: log about VM being executable by default

In case virtual memory is being marked as executable by default, SELinux
checks regarding explicit potential dangerous use are disabled.

Inform the

selinux: log about VM being executable by default

In case virtual memory is being marked as executable by default, SELinux
checks regarding explicit potential dangerous use are disabled.

Inform the user about it.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: fix a 0/NULL mistmatch in ad_net_init_from_iif()

Use a NULL instead of a zero to resolve a int/pointer mismatch.

Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@int

selinux: fix a 0/NULL mistmatch in ad_net_init_from_iif()

Use a NULL instead of a zero to resolve a int/pointer mismatch.

Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202307210332.4AqFZfzI-lkp@intel.com/
Fixes: dd51fcd42fd6 ("selinux: introduce and use lsm_ad_net_init*() helpers")
Acked-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: introduce and use lsm_ad_net_init*() helpers

Perf traces of network-related workload shows a measurable overhead
inside the network-related selinux hooks while zeroing the
lsm_network_audit

selinux: introduce and use lsm_ad_net_init*() helpers

Perf traces of network-related workload shows a measurable overhead
inside the network-related selinux hooks while zeroing the
lsm_network_audit struct.

In most cases we can delay the initialization of such structure to the
usage point, avoiding such overhead in a few cases.

Additionally, the audit code accesses the IP address information only
for AF_INET* families, and selinux_parse_skb() will fill-out the
relevant fields in such cases. When the family field is zeroed or the
initialization is followed by the mentioned parsing, the zeroing can be
limited to the sk, family and netif fields.

By factoring out the audit-data initialization to new helpers, this
patch removes some duplicate code and gives small but measurable
performance gain under UDP flood.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: update my email address

Update my email address; MAINTAINERS was updated some time ago.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul

selinux: update my email address

Update my email address; MAINTAINERS was updated some time ago.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: add missing newlines in pr_err() statements

The kernel print statements do not append an implicit newline to format
strings.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
[PM:

selinux: add missing newlines in pr_err() statements

The kernel print statements do not append an implicit newline to format
strings.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
[PM: subject line tweak]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: de-brand SELinux

Change "NSA SELinux" to just "SELinux" in Kconfig help text and
comments. While NSA was the original primary developer and continues to
help maintain SELinux, SELinux has l

selinux: de-brand SELinux

Change "NSA SELinux" to just "SELinux" in Kconfig help text and
comments. While NSA was the original primary developer and continues to
help maintain SELinux, SELinux has long since transitioned to a wide
community of developers and maintainers. SELinux has been part of the
mainline Linux kernel for nearly 20 years now [1] and has received
contributions from many individuals and organizations.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Pine.LNX.4.44.0308082228470.1852-100000@home.osdl.org/

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: avoid implicit conversions in the LSM hooks

Use the identical types in assignments of local variables for the
destination.

Merge tail calls into return statements.

Avoid using leading und

selinux: avoid implicit conversions in the LSM hooks

Use the identical types in assignments of local variables for the
destination.

Merge tail calls into return statements.

Avoid using leading underscores for function local variable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
[PM: subject line tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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security: Constify sk in the sk_getsecid hook.

The sk_getsecid hook shouldn't need to modify its socket argument.
Make it const so that callers of security_sk_classify_flow() can use a
const struct

security: Constify sk in the sk_getsecid hook.

The sk_getsecid hook shouldn't need to modify its socket argument.
Make it const so that callers of security_sk_classify_flow() can use a
const struct sock *.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Nault <gnault@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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selinux: introduce an initial SID for early boot processes

Currently, SELinux doesn't allow distinguishing between kernel threads
and userspace processes that are started before the policy is first

selinux: introduce an initial SID for early boot processes

Currently, SELinux doesn't allow distinguishing between kernel threads
and userspace processes that are started before the policy is first
loaded - both get the label corresponding to the kernel SID. The only
way a process that persists from early boot can get a meaningful label
is by doing a voluntary dyntransition or re-executing itself.

Reusing the kernel label for userspace processes is problematic for
several reasons:
1. The kernel is considered to be a privileged domain and generally
needs to have a wide range of permissions allowed to work correctly,
which prevents the policy writer from effectively hardening against
early boot processes that might remain running unintentionally after
the policy is loaded (they represent a potential extra attack surface
that should be mitigated).
2. Despite the kernel being treated as a privileged domain, the policy
writer may want to impose certain special limitations on kernel
threads that may conflict with the requirements of intentional early
boot processes. For example, it is a good hardening practice to limit
what executables the kernel can execute as usermode helpers and to
confine the resulting usermode helper processes. However, a
(legitimate) process surviving from early boot may need to execute a
different set of executables.
3. As currently implemented, overlayfs remembers the security context of
the process that created an overlayfs mount and uses it to bound
subsequent operations on files using this context. If an overlayfs
mount is created before the SELinux policy is loaded, these "mounter"
checks are made against the kernel context, which may clash with
restrictions on the kernel domain (see 2.).

To resolve this, introduce a new initial SID (reusing the slot of the
former "init" initial SID) that will be assigned to any userspace
process started before the policy is first loaded. This is easy to do,
as we can simply label any process that goes through the
bprm_creds_for_exec LSM hook with the new init-SID instead of
propagating the kernel SID from the parent.

To provide backwards compatibility for existing policies that are
unaware of this new semantic of the "init" initial SID, introduce a new
policy capability "userspace_initial_context" and set the "init" SID to
the same context as the "kernel" SID unless this capability is set by
the policy.

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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security: Allow all LSMs to provide xattrs for inode_init_security hook

Currently, the LSM infrastructure supports only one LSM providing an xattr
and EVM calculating the HMAC on that xattr, plus ot

security: Allow all LSMs to provide xattrs for inode_init_security hook

Currently, the LSM infrastructure supports only one LSM providing an xattr
and EVM calculating the HMAC on that xattr, plus other inode metadata.

Allow all LSMs to provide one or multiple xattrs, by extending the security
blob reservation mechanism. Introduce the new lbs_xattr_count field of the
lsm_blob_sizes structure, so that each LSM can specify how many xattrs it
needs, and the LSM infrastructure knows how many xattr slots it should
allocate.

Modify the inode_init_security hook definition, by passing the full
xattr array allocated in security_inode_init_security(), and the current
number of xattr slots in that array filled by LSMs. The first parameter
would allow EVM to access and calculate the HMAC on xattrs supplied by
other LSMs, the second to not leave gaps in the xattr array, when an LSM
requested but did not provide xattrs (e.g. if it is not initialized).

Introduce lsm_get_xattr_slot(), which LSMs can call as many times as the
number specified in the lbs_xattr_count field of the lsm_blob_sizes
structure. During each call, lsm_get_xattr_slot() increments the number of
filled xattrs, so that at the next invocation it returns the next xattr
slot to fill.

Cleanup security_inode_init_security(). Unify the !initxattrs and
initxattrs case by simply not allocating the new_xattrs array in the
former. Update the documentation to reflect the changes, and fix the
description of the xattr name, as it is not allocated anymore.

Adapt both SELinux and Smack to use the new definition of the
inode_init_security hook, and to call lsm_get_xattr_slot() to obtain and
fill the reserved slots in the xattr array.

Move the xattr->name assignment after the xattr->value one, so that it is
done only in case of successful memory allocation.

Finally, change the default return value of the inode_init_security hook
from zero to -EOPNOTSUPP, so that BPF LSM correctly follows the hook
conventions.

Reported-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@clip-os.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/Y1FTSIo+1x+4X0LS@archlinux/
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: minor comment and variable tweaks, approved by RS]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: make labeled NFS work when mounted before policy load

Currently, when an NFS filesystem that supports passing LSM/SELinux
labels is mounted during early boot (before the SELinux policy is
l

selinux: make labeled NFS work when mounted before policy load

Currently, when an NFS filesystem that supports passing LSM/SELinux
labels is mounted during early boot (before the SELinux policy is
loaded), it ends up mounted without the labeling support (i.e. with
Fedora policy all files get the generic NFS label
system_u:object_r:nfs_t:s0).

This is because the information that the NFS mount supports passing
labels (communicated to the LSM layer via the kern_flags argument of
security_set_mnt_opts()) gets lost and when the policy is loaded the
mount is initialized as if the passing is not supported.

Fix this by noting the "native labeling" in newsbsec->flags (using a new
SE_SBNATIVE flag) on the pre-policy-loaded call of
selinux_set_mnt_opts() and then making sure it is respected on the
second call from delayed_superblock_init().

Additionally, make inode_doinit_with_dentry() initialize the inode's
label from its extended attributes whenever it doesn't find it already
intitialized by the filesystem. This is needed to properly initialize
pre-existing inodes when delayed_superblock_init() is called. It should
not trigger in any other cases (and if it does, it's still better to
initialize the correct label instead of leaving the inode unlabeled).

Fixes: eb9ae686507b ("SELinux: Add new labeling type native labels")
Tested-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
[PM: fixed 'Fixes' tag format]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: Implement mptcp_add_subflow hook

Newly added subflows should inherit the LSM label from the associated
MPTCP socket regardless of the current context.

This patch implements the above copyi

selinux: Implement mptcp_add_subflow hook

Newly added subflows should inherit the LSM label from the associated
MPTCP socket regardless of the current context.

This patch implements the above copying sid and class from the MPTCP
socket context, deleting the existing subflow label, if any, and then
re-creating the correct one.

The new helper reuses the selinux_netlbl_sk_security_free() function,
and the latter can end-up being called multiple times with the same
argument; we additionally need to make it idempotent.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: declare read-only data arrays const

The array of mount tokens in only used in match_opt_prefix() and never
modified.

The array of symtab names is never modified and only used in the
DEBUG_

selinux: declare read-only data arrays const

The array of mount tokens in only used in match_opt_prefix() and never
modified.

The array of symtab names is never modified and only used in the
DEBUG_HASHES configuration as output.

The array of files for the SElinux filesystem sub-directory `ss` is
similar to the other `struct tree_descr` usages only read from to
construct the containing entries.

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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selinux: adjust typos in comments

Found by codespell(1)

Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

selinux: remove the runtime disable functionality

After working with the larger SELinux-based distros for several
years, we're finally at a place where we can disable the SELinux
runtime disable fun

selinux: remove the runtime disable functionality

After working with the larger SELinux-based distros for several
years, we're finally at a place where we can disable the SELinux
runtime disable functionality. The existing kernel deprecation
notice explains the functionality and why we want to remove it:

The selinuxfs "disable" node allows SELinux to be disabled at
runtime prior to a policy being loaded into the kernel. If
disabled via this mechanism, SELinux will remain disabled until
the system is rebooted.

The preferred method of disabling SELinux is via the "selinux=0"
boot parameter, but the selinuxfs "disable" node was created to
make it easier for systems with primitive bootloaders that did not
allow for easy modification of the kernel command line.
Unfortunately, allowing for SELinux to be disabled at runtime makes
it difficult to secure the kernel's LSM hooks using the
"__ro_after_init" feature.

It is that last sentence, mentioning the '__ro_after_init' hardening,
which is the real motivation for this change, and if you look at the
diffstat you'll see that the impact of this patch reaches across all
the different LSMs, helping prevent tampering at the LSM hook level.

From a SELinux perspective, it is important to note that if you
continue to disable SELinux via "/etc/selinux/config" it may appear
that SELinux is disabled, but it is simply in an uninitialized state.
If you load a policy with `load_policy -i`, you will see SELinux
come alive just as if you had loaded the policy during early-boot.

It is also worth noting that the "/sys/fs/selinux/disable" file is
always writable now, regardless of the Kconfig settings, but writing
to the file has no effect on the system, other than to display an
error on the console if a non-zero/true value is written.

Finally, in the several years where we have been working on
deprecating this functionality, there has only been one instance of
someone mentioning any user visible breakage. In this particular
case it was an individual's kernel test system, and the workaround
documented in the deprecation notice ("selinux=0" on the kernel
command line) resolved the issue without problem.

Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

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