[PATCH] LSM: general protection fault in legacy_parse_param

Christian Brauner christian.brauner at ubuntu.com
Tue Oct 12 10:32:43 UTC 2021


On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:40:22PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> The usual LSM hook "bail on fail" scheme doesn't work for cases where
> a security module may return an error code indicating that it does not
> recognize an input.  In this particular case Smack sees a mount option
> that it recognizes, and returns 0. A call to a BPF hook follows, which
> returns -ENOPARAM, which confuses the caller because Smack has processed
> its data.
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot+d1e3b1d92d25abf97943 at syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> ---

Thanks!
Note, I think that we still have the SELinux issue we discussed in the
other thread:

	rc = selinux_add_opt(opt, param->string, &fc->security);
	if (!rc) {
		param->string = NULL;
		rc = 1;
	}

SELinux returns 1 not the expected 0. Not sure if that got fixed or is
queued-up for -next. In any case, this here seems correct independent of
that:

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner at ubuntu.com>

>  security/security.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index 09533cbb7221..3cf0faaf1c5b 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -885,7 +885,19 @@ int security_fs_context_dup(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_context *src_fc)
>  
>  int security_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param)
>  {
> -	return call_int_hook(fs_context_parse_param, -ENOPARAM, fc, param);
> +	struct security_hook_list *hp;
> +	int trc;
> +	int rc = -ENOPARAM;
> +
> +	hlist_for_each_entry(hp, &security_hook_heads.fs_context_parse_param,
> +			     list) {
> +		trc = hp->hook.fs_context_parse_param(fc, param);
> +		if (trc == 0)
> +			rc = 0;
> +		else if (trc != -ENOPARAM)
> +			return trc;
> +	}
> +	return rc;
>  }
>  
>  int security_sb_alloc(struct super_block *sb)
> 
> 



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