[PATCH] security: Return xattr name from security_dentry_init_security()

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Thu Sep 30 18:59:10 UTC 2021


Right now security_dentry_init_security() only supports single security
label and is used by SELinux only. There are two users of of this hook,
namely ceph and nfs.

NFS does not care about xattr name. Ceph hardcodes the xattr name to
security.selinux (XATTR_NAME_SELINUX).

I am making changes to fuse/virtiofs to send security label to virtiofsd
and I need to send xattr name as well. I also hardcoded the name of
xattr to security.selinux.

Stephen Smalley suggested that it probably is a good idea to modify
security_dentry_init_security() to also return name of xattr so that
we can avoid this hardcoding in the callers.

This patch adds a new parameter "const char **xattr_name" to
security_dentry_init_security() and LSM puts the name of xattr
too if caller asked for it (xattr_name != NULL).

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
---

I have compile tested this patch. Don't know how to setup ceph and
test it. Its a very simple change. Hopefully ceph developers can
have a quick look at it.

A similar attempt was made three years back.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20180626080429.27304-1-zyan@redhat.com/T/
---
 fs/ceph/xattr.c               |    3 +--
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c             |    3 ++-
 include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h |    3 ++-
 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h     |    1 +
 include/linux/security.h      |    6 ++++--
 security/security.c           |    7 ++++---
 security/selinux/hooks.c      |    6 +++++-
 7 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Index: redhat-linux/security/selinux/hooks.c
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/security/selinux/hooks.c	2021-09-28 11:36:03.559785943 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/security/selinux/hooks.c	2021-09-30 14:01:05.869195347 -0400
@@ -2948,7 +2948,8 @@ static void selinux_inode_free_security(
 }
 
 static int selinux_dentry_init_security(struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
-					const struct qstr *name, void **ctx,
+					const struct qstr *name,
+					const char **xattr_name, void **ctx,
 					u32 *ctxlen)
 {
 	u32 newsid;
@@ -2961,6 +2962,9 @@ static int selinux_dentry_init_security(
 	if (rc)
 		return rc;
 
+	if (xattr_name)
+		*xattr_name = XATTR_NAME_SELINUX;
+
 	return security_sid_to_context(&selinux_state, newsid, (char **)ctx,
 				       ctxlen);
 }
Index: redhat-linux/security/security.c
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/security/security.c	2021-08-16 10:39:28.518988836 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/security/security.c	2021-09-30 13:54:36.367195347 -0400
@@ -1052,11 +1052,12 @@ void security_inode_free(struct inode *i
 }
 
 int security_dentry_init_security(struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
-					const struct qstr *name, void **ctx,
-					u32 *ctxlen)
+				  const struct qstr *name,
+				  const char **xattr_name, void **ctx,
+				  u32 *ctxlen)
 {
 	return call_int_hook(dentry_init_security, -EOPNOTSUPP, dentry, mode,
-				name, ctx, ctxlen);
+				name, xattr_name, ctx, ctxlen);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_dentry_init_security);
 
Index: redhat-linux/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h	2021-06-02 10:20:27.717485143 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h	2021-09-30 13:56:48.440195347 -0400
@@ -196,6 +196,7 @@
  *	@dentry dentry to use in calculating the context.
  *	@mode mode used to determine resource type.
  *	@name name of the last path component used to create file
+ *	@xattr_name pointer to place the pointer to security xattr name
  *	@ctx pointer to place the pointer to the resulting context in.
  *	@ctxlen point to place the length of the resulting context.
  * @dentry_create_files_as:
Index: redhat-linux/include/linux/security.h
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/include/linux/security.h	2021-08-16 10:39:28.484988836 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/include/linux/security.h	2021-09-30 13:59:00.288195347 -0400
@@ -317,8 +317,9 @@ int security_add_mnt_opt(const char *opt
 				int len, void **mnt_opts);
 int security_move_mount(const struct path *from_path, const struct path *to_path);
 int security_dentry_init_security(struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
-					const struct qstr *name, void **ctx,
-					u32 *ctxlen);
+				  const struct qstr *name,
+				  const char **xattr_name, void **ctx,
+				  u32 *ctxlen);
 int security_dentry_create_files_as(struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
 					struct qstr *name,
 					const struct cred *old,
@@ -739,6 +740,7 @@ static inline void security_inode_free(s
 static inline int security_dentry_init_security(struct dentry *dentry,
 						 int mode,
 						 const struct qstr *name,
+						 const char **xattr_name,
 						 void **ctx,
 						 u32 *ctxlen)
 {
Index: redhat-linux/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h	2021-07-07 11:54:59.673549151 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h	2021-09-30 14:02:13.114195347 -0400
@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ LSM_HOOK(int, 0, sb_add_mnt_opt, const c
 LSM_HOOK(int, 0, move_mount, const struct path *from_path,
 	 const struct path *to_path)
 LSM_HOOK(int, 0, dentry_init_security, struct dentry *dentry,
-	 int mode, const struct qstr *name, void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
+	 int mode, const struct qstr *name, const char **xattr_name,
+	 void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
 LSM_HOOK(int, 0, dentry_create_files_as, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
 	 struct qstr *name, const struct cred *old, struct cred *new)
 
Index: redhat-linux/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c	2021-07-14 14:47:42.732842926 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c	2021-09-30 14:06:02.249195347 -0400
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ nfs4_label_init_security(struct inode *d
 		return NULL;
 
 	err = security_dentry_init_security(dentry, sattr->ia_mode,
-				&dentry->d_name, (void **)&label->label, &label->len);
+				&dentry->d_name, NULL,
+				(void **)&label->label, &label->len);
 	if (err == 0)
 		return label;
 
Index: redhat-linux/fs/ceph/xattr.c
===================================================================
--- redhat-linux.orig/fs/ceph/xattr.c	2021-09-09 13:05:21.800611264 -0400
+++ redhat-linux/fs/ceph/xattr.c	2021-09-30 14:14:59.892195347 -0400
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@ int ceph_security_init_secctx(struct den
 	int err;
 
 	err = security_dentry_init_security(dentry, mode, &dentry->d_name,
-					    &as_ctx->sec_ctx,
+					    &name, &as_ctx->sec_ctx,
 					    &as_ctx->sec_ctxlen);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(err != -EOPNOTSUPP);
@@ -1335,7 +1335,6 @@ int ceph_security_init_secctx(struct den
 	 * It only supports single security module and only selinux has
 	 * dentry_init_security hook.
 	 */
-	name = XATTR_NAME_SELINUX;
 	name_len = strlen(name);
 	err = ceph_pagelist_reserve(pagelist,
 				    4 * 2 + name_len + as_ctx->sec_ctxlen);



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