[PATCH] vsock: use ns_capable_noaudit() on socket create

Jeff Vander Stoep jeffv at google.com
Fri Oct 23 14:37:57 UTC 2020


During __vsock_create() CAP_NET_ADMIN is used to determine if the
vsock_sock->trusted should be set to true. This value is used later
for determing if a remote connection should be allowed to connect
to a restricted VM. Unfortunately, if the caller doesn't have
CAP_NET_ADMIN, an audit message such as an selinux denial is
generated even if the caller does not want a trusted socket.

Logging errors on success is confusing. To avoid this, switch the
capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN) check to the noaudit version.

Reported-by: Roman Kiryanov <rkir at google.com>
https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/device/generic/goldfish/+/1468545/
Signed-off-by: Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv at google.com>
---
 net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
index 9e93bc201cc0..b4d7b8aba003 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/af_vsock.c
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ static struct sock *__vsock_create(struct net *net,
 		vsk->buffer_min_size = psk->buffer_min_size;
 		vsk->buffer_max_size = psk->buffer_max_size;
 	} else {
-		vsk->trusted = capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN);
+		vsk->trusted = ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN);
 		vsk->owner = get_current_cred();
 		vsk->connect_timeout = VSOCK_DEFAULT_CONNECT_TIMEOUT;
 		vsk->buffer_size = VSOCK_DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE;
-- 
2.29.0.rc2.309.g374f81d7ae-goog



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