[RFC PATCH 03/14] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion [ver #3]

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Jan 15 13:31:02 UTC 2020


Add a security hook that allows an LSM to rule on whether a notification
message is allowed to be inserted into a particular watch queue.

The hook is given the following information:

 (1) The credentials of the triggerer (which may be init_cred for a system
     notification, eg. a hardware error).

 (2) The credentials of the whoever set the watch.

 (3) The notification message.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
cc: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
---

 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h |   14 ++++++++++++++
 include/linux/security.h  |   14 ++++++++++++++
 security/security.c       |    9 +++++++++
 3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index 79d7c73676d7..16530255dc11 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -1427,6 +1427,12 @@
  *	Check to see if a process is allowed to watch for event notifications
  *	from devices (as a global set).
  *
+ * @post_notification:
+ *	Check to see if a watch notification can be posted to a particular
+ *	queue.
+ *	@w_cred: The credentials of the whoever set the watch.
+ *	@cred: The event-triggerer's credentials
+ *	@n: The notification being posted
  *
  * Security hooks for using the eBPF maps and programs functionalities through
  * eBPF syscalls.
@@ -1716,6 +1722,11 @@ union security_list_options {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEVICE_NOTIFICATIONS
 	int (*watch_devices)(void);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
+	int (*post_notification)(const struct cred *w_cred,
+				 const struct cred *cred,
+				 struct watch_notification *n);
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
 	int (*unix_stream_connect)(struct sock *sock, struct sock *other,
@@ -2009,6 +2020,9 @@ struct security_hook_heads {
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEVICE_NOTIFICATIONS
 	struct hlist_head watch_devices;
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
+	struct hlist_head post_notification;
+#endif /* CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE */
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
 	struct hlist_head unix_stream_connect;
 	struct hlist_head unix_may_send;
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 8f2fa100d128..e03ee1164268 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ struct mm_struct;
 struct fs_context;
 struct fs_parameter;
 enum fs_value_type;
+struct watch;
+struct watch_notification;
 
 /* Default (no) options for the capable function */
 #define CAP_OPT_NONE 0x0
@@ -1290,6 +1292,18 @@ static inline int security_watch_devices(void)
 	return 0;
 }
 #endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_SECURITY) && defined(CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE)
+int security_post_notification(const struct cred *w_cred,
+			       const struct cred *cred,
+			       struct watch_notification *n);
+#else
+static inline int security_post_notification(const struct cred *w_cred,
+					     const struct cred *cred,
+					     struct watch_notification *n)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
 
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 578863f230a6..9c1878a7fadf 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -1956,6 +1956,15 @@ int security_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_inode_getsecctx);
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE
+int security_post_notification(const struct cred *w_cred,
+			       const struct cred *cred,
+			       struct watch_notification *n)
+{
+	return call_int_hook(post_notification, 0, w_cred, cred, n);
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_KEY_NOTIFICATIONS
 int security_watch_key(struct key *key)
 {



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