[PATCH] selinux: Fix use of KEY_NEED_* instead of KEY__* perms

[Stephen Smalley]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 10:13 AM David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> > Okay, can you send the next version of the patch to the SELinux list for
> > review?
>
> Here you go.  Note that I did this a few days ago and I actually used EACCES
> rather than EPERM.  Which one is one preferred for this?
>
> David
> ---
> selinux: Fix use of KEY_NEED_* instead of KEY__* perms
>
> selinux_key_getsecurity() is passing the KEY_NEED_* permissions to
> security_sid_to_context() instead of the KEY__* values.  It happens to work
> because the values are all coincident.

Both function names in the above description are wrong.

> Fixes: d720024e94de ("[PATCH] selinux: add hooks for key subsystem")
> Reported-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 0b4e32161b77..6087955b49d8 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -6539,20 +6539,38 @@ static void selinux_key_free(struct key *k)
>         kfree(ksec);
>  }
>
> +static unsigned int selinux_keyperm_to_av(unsigned int need_perm)
> +{
> +       switch (need_perm) {
> +       case KEY_NEED_VIEW:     return KEY__VIEW;
> +       case KEY_NEED_READ:     return KEY__READ;
> +       case KEY_NEED_WRITE:    return KEY__WRITE;
> +       case KEY_NEED_SEARCH:   return KEY__SEARCH;
> +       case KEY_NEED_LINK:     return KEY__LINK;
> +       case KEY_NEED_SETATTR:  return KEY__SETATTR;
> +       default:

Possibly WARN() or BUG() here?  Or BUILD_BUG_ON(KEY_NEED_ALL != 0x3f)
to force an update here
whenever a new key permission is defined?

> +               return 0;
> +       }
> +}
> +
>  static int selinux_key_permission(key_ref_t key_ref,
>                                   const struct cred *cred,
> -                                 unsigned perm)
> +                                 unsigned need_perm)
>  {
>         struct key *key;
>         struct key_security_struct *ksec;
> +       unsigned int perm;
>         u32 sid;
>
>         /* if no specific permissions are requested, we skip the
>            permission check. No serious, additional covert channels
>            appear to be created. */
> -       if (perm == 0)
> +       if (need_perm == 0)
>                 return 0;
>
> +       perm = selinux_keyperm_to_av(need_perm);
> +       if (perm == 0)
> +               return -EACCES;

We should log or audit some kind of message here, whether via WARN(),
audit_log(), or something, to avoid silent denials.

>         sid = cred_sid(cred);
>
>         key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
>