[PATCH V4 2/3] IMA: Use consistent creds

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at google.com
Wed Jan 3 01:20:16 UTC 2018


Right now most of the IMA code is using current->creds, but the LSM
checks are using security_task_getsecid() which ends up looking at
real_creds. Switch to using security_cred_getsecid() in order to make
this consistent.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at google.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis at parisplace.org>
Cc: selinux at tycho.nsa.gov
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin at gmail.com>
Cc: linux-integrity at vger.kernel.org
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
index ee4613fa5840..52951ac445ea 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ static void ima_lsm_update_rules(void)
 static bool ima_match_rules(struct ima_rule_entry *rule, struct inode *inode,
 			    enum ima_hooks func, int mask)
 {
-	struct task_struct *tsk = current;
 	const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
 	int i;
 
@@ -305,7 +304,7 @@ static bool ima_match_rules(struct ima_rule_entry *rule, struct inode *inode,
 		case LSM_SUBJ_USER:
 		case LSM_SUBJ_ROLE:
 		case LSM_SUBJ_TYPE:
-			security_task_getsecid(tsk, &sid);
+			security_cred_getsecid(cred, &sid);
 			rc = security_filter_rule_match(sid,
 							rule->lsm[i].type,
 							Audit_equal,
-- 
2.15.1.620.gb9897f4670-goog

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