[PATCH] fix security_release_secctx seems broken

[Casey Schaufler]

Subject: [PATCH] fix security_release_secctx seems broken

security_inode_getsecurity() provides the text string value
of a security attribute. It does not provide a "secctx".
The code in xattr_getsecurity() that calls security_inode_getsecurity()
and then calls security_release_secctx() happened to work because
SElinux and Smack treat the attribute and the secctx the same way.
It fails for cap_inode_getsecurity(), because that module has no
secctx that ever needs releasing. It turns out that Smack is the
one that's doing things wrong by not allocating memory when instructed
to do so by the "alloc" parameter.

The fix is simple enough. Change the security_release_secctx() to
kfree() because it isn't a secctx being returned by
security_inode_getsecurity(). Change Smack to allocate the string when
told to do so.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>

---
 fs/xattr.c                 |  2 +-
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xattr.c b/fs/xattr.c
index 4424f7fecf14..61cd28ba25f3 100644
--- a/fs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/xattr.c
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ xattr_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *value,
 	}
 	memcpy(value, buffer, len);
 out:
-	security_release_secctx(buffer, len);
+	kfree(buffer);
 out_noalloc:
 	return len;
 }
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 319add31b4a4..286171a16ed2 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ static int smack_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
  * @inode: the object
  * @name: attribute name
  * @buffer: where to put the result
- * @alloc: unused
+ * @alloc: duplicate memory
  *
  * Returns the size of the attribute or an error code
  */
@@ -1486,43 +1486,38 @@ static int smack_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode,
 	struct super_block *sbp;
 	struct inode *ip = (struct inode *)inode;
 	struct smack_known *isp;
-	int ilen;
-	int rc = 0;
 
-	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX) == 0) {
+	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX) == 0)
 		isp = smk_of_inode(inode);
-		ilen = strlen(isp->smk_known);
-		*buffer = isp->smk_known;
-		return ilen;
-	}
+	else {
+		/*
+		 * The rest of the Smack xattrs are only on sockets.
+		 */
+		sbp = ip->i_sb;
+		if (sbp->s_magic != SOCKFS_MAGIC)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	/*
-	 * The rest of the Smack xattrs are only on sockets.
-	 */
-	sbp = ip->i_sb;
-	if (sbp->s_magic != SOCKFS_MAGIC)
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		sock = SOCKET_I(ip);
+		if (sock == NULL || sock->sk == NULL)
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	sock = SOCKET_I(ip);
-	if (sock == NULL || sock->sk == NULL)
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-
-	ssp = sock->sk->sk_security;
+		ssp = sock->sk->sk_security;
 
-	if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_IPIN) == 0)
-		isp = ssp->smk_in;
-	else if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT) == 0)
-		isp = ssp->smk_out;
-	else
-		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+		if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_IPIN) == 0)
+			isp = ssp->smk_in;
+		else if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT) == 0)
+			isp = ssp->smk_out;
+		else
+			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
+	}
 
-	ilen = strlen(isp->smk_known);
-	if (rc == 0) {
-		*buffer = isp->smk_known;
-		rc = ilen;
+	if (alloc) {
+		*buffer = kstrdup(isp->smk_known, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (*buffer == NULL)
+			return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	return rc;
+	return strlen(isp->smk_known);
 }
 
 

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