[PATCH] selinux: fix residual uses of current_security() for the SELinux blob

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Wed Sep 4 15:16:00 UTC 2019


On 9/4/2019 7:32 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> We need to use selinux_cred() to fetch the SELinux cred blob instead
> of directly using current->security or current_security().  There
> were a couple of lingering uses of current_security() in the SELinux code
> that were apparently missed during the earlier conversions.

Thank you for finding this.

>  IIUC, this
> would only manifest as a bug if multiple security modules including
> SELinux are enabled and SELinux is not first in the lsm order. After
> this change, there appear to be no other users of current_security()
> in-tree; perhaps we should remove it altogether.

I agree.

>
> Fixes: bbd3662a8348 ("Infrastructure management of the cred security blob")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>

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

> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c          |  2 +-
>  security/selinux/include/objsec.h | 20 ++++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index d55571c585ff..f1b763eceef9 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -3435,7 +3435,7 @@ static int selinux_inode_copy_up_xattr(const char *name)
>  static int selinux_kernfs_init_security(struct kernfs_node *kn_dir,
>  					struct kernfs_node *kn)
>  {
> -	const struct task_security_struct *tsec = current_security();
> +	const struct task_security_struct *tsec = selinux_cred(current_cred());
>  	u32 parent_sid, newsid, clen;
>  	int rc;
>  	char *context;
> diff --git a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> index 231262d8eac9..d2e00c7595dd 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> +++ b/security/selinux/include/objsec.h
> @@ -40,16 +40,6 @@ struct task_security_struct {
>  	u32 sockcreate_sid;	/* fscreate SID */
>  };
>  
> -/*
> - * get the subjective security ID of the current task
> - */
> -static inline u32 current_sid(void)
> -{
> -	const struct task_security_struct *tsec = current_security();
> -
> -	return tsec->sid;
> -}
> -
>  enum label_initialized {
>  	LABEL_INVALID,		/* invalid or not initialized */
>  	LABEL_INITIALIZED,	/* initialized */
> @@ -188,4 +178,14 @@ static inline struct ipc_security_struct *selinux_ipc(
>  	return ipc->security + selinux_blob_sizes.lbs_ipc;
>  }
>  
> +/*
> + * get the subjective security ID of the current task
> + */
> +static inline u32 current_sid(void)
> +{
> +	const struct task_security_struct *tsec = selinux_cred(current_cred());
> +
> +	return tsec->sid;
> +}
> +
>  #endif /* _SELINUX_OBJSEC_H_ */



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