[PATCH v6 0/5] LSM: Support ptrace sidechannel access checks

Casey Schaufler casey.schaufler at intel.com
Mon Nov 5 19:04:59 UTC 2018


V6: Based on Tim Chen's "[Patch v4 00/18] Provide process property
    based options to enable Spectre v2 userspace-userspace protection*"
    patch set.
v5: Revamped to match Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
    Harden spectrev2 userspace-userspace protection v7
    Fixed locking issues in the LSM code.
    Dropped the new LSM hook and use a ptrace hook instead.
v4: select namespace checks if user namespaces are enabled
    and credential checks are request.
v3: get_task_cred wasn't a good choice due to refcounts.
    Use lower level protection instead
v2: SELinux access policy corrected.
    Use real_cred instead of cred.

This patchset provide a mechanism by which a security module
can advise the system about potential side-channel vulnerabilities.
The existing security modules have been updated to avoid locking
issues in the face of PTRACE_MODE_SCHED. A new security
module is provided to make determinations regarding task attributes
including namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey.schaufler at intel.com>
---
 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h          |  5 +++
 kernel/ptrace.c                    |  2 -
 security/Kconfig                   |  1 +
 security/Makefile                  |  2 +
 security/apparmor/domain.c         |  2 +-
 security/apparmor/include/ipc.h    |  2 +-
 security/apparmor/ipc.c            |  8 ++--
 security/apparmor/lsm.c            |  5 ++-
 security/commoncap.c               |  3 +-
 security/security.c                |  1 +
 security/selinux/hooks.c           |  2 +
 security/sidechannel/Kconfig       | 13 ++++++
 security/sidechannel/Makefile      |  1 +
 security/sidechannel/sidechannel.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c         |  3 +-
 15 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)



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