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

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Sep 4 19:35:49 UTC 2019


On Wed, 4 Sep 2019, 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. 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.
> 
> Fixes: bbd3662a8348 ("Infrastructure management of the cred security blob")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris at linux.microsoft.com>


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James Morris
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