[PATCH v15 0/4] SELinux support for anonymous inodes and UFFD

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Jan 14 22:47:19 UTC 2021


On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:15 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 5:22 PM Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra at google.com> wrote:
> >
> > Userfaultfd in unprivileged contexts could be potentially very
> > useful. We'd like to harden userfaultfd to make such unprivileged use
> > less risky. This patch series allows SELinux to manage userfaultfd
> > file descriptors and in the future, other kinds of
> > anonymous-inode-based file descriptor.
>
> ...
>
> > Daniel Colascione (3):
> >   fs: add LSM-supporting anon-inode interface
> >   selinux: teach SELinux about anonymous inodes
> >   userfaultfd: use secure anon inodes for userfaultfd
> >
> > Lokesh Gidra (1):
> >   security: add inode_init_security_anon() LSM hook
> >
> >  fs/anon_inodes.c                    | 150 ++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >  fs/libfs.c                          |   5 -
> >  fs/userfaultfd.c                    |  19 ++--
> >  include/linux/anon_inodes.h         |   5 +
> >  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h       |   2 +
> >  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h           |   9 ++
> >  include/linux/security.h            |  10 ++
> >  security/security.c                 |   8 ++
> >  security/selinux/hooks.c            |  57 +++++++++++
> >  security/selinux/include/classmap.h |   2 +
> >  10 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
>
> With several rounds of reviews done and the corresponding SELinux test
> suite looking close to being ready I think it makes sense to merge
> this via the SELinux tree.  VFS folks, if you have any comments or
> objections please let me know soon.  If I don't hear anything within
> the next day or two I'll go ahead and merge this for linux-next.

With no comments over the last two days I merged the patchset into
selinux/next.  Thanks for all your work and patience on this Lokesh.

Also, it looks like you are very close to getting the associated
SELinux test suite additions merged, please continue to work with
Ondrej to get those merged soon.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com



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