[PATCH v4 3/3] binder: use euid from cred instead of using task

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Mon Oct 11 21:34:15 UTC 2021


On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 5:25 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/8/2021 2:12 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 8:46 PM Todd Kjos <tkjos at google.com> wrote:
> >> Set a transaction's sender_euid from the 'struct cred'
> >> saved at binder_open() instead of looking up the euid
> >> from the binder proc's 'struct task'. This ensures
> >> the euid is associated with the security context that
> >> of the task that opened binder.
> >>
> >> Fixes: 457b9a6f09f0 ("Staging: android: add binder driver")
> >> Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos at google.com>
> >> Suggested-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
> >> ---
> >> v3: added this patch to series
> >>
> >>  drivers/android/binder.c | 2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > This is an interesting ordering of the patches.  Unless I'm missing
> > something I would have expected patch 3/3 to come first, followed by
> > 2/3, with patch 1/3 at the end; basically the reverse of what was
> > posted here.
> >
> > My reading of the previous thread was that Casey has made his peace
> > with these changes
>
> Yes. I will address the stacking concerns more directly.
> I am still somewhat baffled by the intent of the hook, the data
> passed to it, and the SELinux policy enforcement decisions, but
> that's beyond my scope.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure there were no objections.

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