[PATCH 0/3] Introduce LSM-hook for socketpair(2)

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Mon Apr 23 17:04:19 UTC 2018


On 4/23/2018 6:30 AM, David Herrmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> This series adds a new LSM hook for the socketpair(2) syscall. The idea
> is to allow SO_PEERSEC to be called on AF_UNIX sockets created via
> socketpair(2), and return the same information as if you emulated
> socketpair(2) via a temporary listener socket. Right now SO_PEERSEC
> will return the unlabeled credentials for a socketpair, rather than the
> actual credentials of the creating process.
>
> ...
>
> This series only adds SELinux backends, since that is what we need for
> RHEL. I will gladly extend the other LSMs if needed.

I would be very happy to see a proposed patch for Smack. It shouldn't
be much different from the SELinux version, with the exception that it
will use pointers to smk_known structures instead of secids. It would be
a big help, as someone just threw a whole new species of scorpion into
this pit.

>
> Thanks
> David
>
> [1] https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/blob/master/src/util/test-peersec.c
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/selinux/msg22674.html
>
> David Herrmann (3):
>   security: add hook for socketpair(AF_UNIX, ...)
>   net/unix: hook unix_socketpair() into LSM
>   selinux: provide unix_stream_socketpair callback
>
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h |  8 ++++++++
>  include/linux/security.h  |  7 +++++++
>  net/unix/af_unix.c        |  5 +++++
>  security/security.c       |  6 ++++++
>  security/selinux/hooks.c  | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 40 insertions(+)
>

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