[PATCH] evm: Correct inode_init_security hooks behaviors

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Thu Oct 20 16:41:02 UTC 2022


On 10/20/2022 6:55 AM, Nicolas Bouchinet wrote:
> From: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet at ssi.gouv.fr>
>
> Fixes a NULL pointer dereference occuring in the
> `evm_protected_xattr_common` function of the EVM LSM. The bug is
> triggered if a `inode_init_security` hook returns 0 without initializing
> the given `struct xattr` fields (which is the case of BPF) and if no
> other LSM overrides thoses fields after. This also leads to memory
> leaks.
>
> Adds a `call_int_hook_xattr` macro that fetches and feed the
> `new_xattrs` array with every called hook xattr values.
>
> Adds a `evm_init_hmacs` function which init the EVM hmac using every
> entry of the array contrary to `evm_init_hmac`.
>
> Fixes the `evm_inode_init_security` function to use `evm_init_hmacs`.
>
> The `MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR` value has been raised to 5 which gives room for
> SMACK, SELinux, Apparmor, BPF and IMA/EVM security attributes.
>
> Changes the default return value of the `inode_init_security` hook
> definition to `-EOPNOTSUPP`.
>
> Changes the hook documentation to match the behavior of the LSMs using
> it (only xattr->value is initialised with kmalloc and thus is the only
> one that should be kfreed by the caller).
>
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet at ssi.gouv.fr>
> ---
>  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h       |  2 +-
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h           |  4 ++--
>  security/integrity/evm/evm.h        |  2 ++
>  security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c   | 11 ++++++-----
>  security/security.c                 | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  6 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
> index 806448173033..e5dd0c0f6345 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ LSM_HOOK(int, 0, path_notify, const struct path *path, u64 mask,
>  	 unsigned int obj_type)
>  LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_alloc_security, struct inode *inode)
>  LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, inode_free_security, struct inode *inode)
> -LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_init_security, struct inode *inode,
> +LSM_HOOK(int, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode_init_security, struct inode *inode,
>  	 struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *qstr, const char **name,
>  	 void **value, size_t *len)
>  LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_init_security_anon, struct inode *inode,
> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> index 84a0d7e02176..95aff9383de1 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> @@ -229,8 +229,8 @@
>   *	This hook is called by the fs code as part of the inode creation
>   *	transaction and provides for atomic labeling of the inode, unlike
>   *	the post_create/mkdir/... hooks called by the VFS.  The hook function
> - *	is expected to allocate the name and value via kmalloc, with the caller
> - *	being responsible for calling kfree after using them.
> + *	is expected to allocate the value via kmalloc, with the caller
> + *	being responsible for calling kfree after using it.
>   *	If the security module does not use security attributes or does
>   *	not wish to put a security attribute on this particular inode,
>   *	then it should return -EOPNOTSUPP to skip this processing.
> diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm.h b/security/integrity/evm/evm.h
> index f8b8c5004fc7..a2f9886e924d 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm.h
> +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm.h
> @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ int evm_calc_hash(struct dentry *dentry, const char *req_xattr_name,
>  		  struct evm_digest *data);
>  int evm_init_hmac(struct inode *inode, const struct xattr *xattr,
>  		  char *hmac_val);
> +int evm_init_hmacs(struct inode *inode, const struct xattr *xattrs,
> +		  char *hmac_val);
>  int evm_init_secfs(void);
>  
>  #endif
> diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
> index 708de9656bbd..e5a34306cab6 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
> @@ -347,7 +347,6 @@ static int evm_is_immutable(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  
> -
>  /*
>   * Calculate the hmac and update security.evm xattr
>   *
> @@ -385,6 +384,28 @@ int evm_update_evmxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  
> +int evm_protected_xattr(const char *req_xattr_name);
> +
> +int evm_init_hmacs(struct inode *inode, const struct xattr *lsm_xattrs,
> +		  char *hmac_val)
> +{
> +	struct shash_desc *desc;
> +
> +	desc = init_desc(EVM_XATTR_HMAC, HASH_ALGO_SHA1);
> +	if (IS_ERR(desc)) {
> +		pr_info("init_desc failed\n");
> +		return PTR_ERR(desc);
> +	}
> +
> +	for (int i = 0; lsm_xattrs[i].value != NULL; i++) {
> +		if (evm_protected_xattr(lsm_xattrs[i].name))
> +			crypto_shash_update(desc, lsm_xattrs[i].value, lsm_xattrs[i].value_len);
> +	}
> +	hmac_add_misc(desc, inode, EVM_XATTR_HMAC, hmac_val);
> +	kfree(desc);
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  int evm_init_hmac(struct inode *inode, const struct xattr *lsm_xattr,
>  		  char *hmac_val)
>  {
> diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> index 2e6fb6e2ffd2..bb071c55d656 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c
> @@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ static int evm_protected_xattr_common(const char *req_xattr_name,
>  	int found = 0;
>  	struct xattr_list *xattr;
>  
> +	if (!req_xattr_name)
> +		return found;
>  	namelen = strlen(req_xattr_name);
>  	list_for_each_entry_lockless(xattr, &evm_config_xattrnames, list) {
>  		if (!all_xattrs && !xattr->enabled)
> @@ -305,7 +307,7 @@ static int evm_protected_xattr_common(const char *req_xattr_name,
>  	return found;
>  }
>  
> -static int evm_protected_xattr(const char *req_xattr_name)
> +int evm_protected_xattr(const char *req_xattr_name)
>  {
>  	return evm_protected_xattr_common(req_xattr_name, false);
>  }
> @@ -835,14 +837,13 @@ void evm_inode_post_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, int ia_valid)
>   * evm_inode_init_security - initializes security.evm HMAC value
>   */
>  int evm_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
> -				 const struct xattr *lsm_xattr,
> +				 const struct xattr *lsm_xattrs,
>  				 struct xattr *evm_xattr)
>  {
>  	struct evm_xattr *xattr_data;
>  	int rc;
>  
> -	if (!(evm_initialized & EVM_INIT_HMAC) ||
> -	    !evm_protected_xattr(lsm_xattr->name))
> +	if (!(evm_initialized & EVM_INIT_HMAC))
>  		return 0;
>  
>  	xattr_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*xattr_data), GFP_NOFS);
> @@ -850,7 +851,7 @@ int evm_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode,
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  
>  	xattr_data->data.type = EVM_XATTR_HMAC;
> -	rc = evm_init_hmac(inode, lsm_xattr, xattr_data->digest);
> +	rc = evm_init_hmacs(inode, lsm_xattrs, xattr_data->digest);
>  	if (rc < 0)
>  		goto out;
>  
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index 14d30fec8a00..47012c118536 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>  #include <linux/msg.h>
>  #include <net/flow.h>
>  
> -#define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR	2
> +#define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR	5

#define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR \
	2 + /* IMA and EVM */ \
	(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX) ? 1 : 0) + \
	(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK) ? 1 : 0) + \
	(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR) ? 1 : 0) + \
	(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BPF_LSM) ? 1 : 0))

>  
>  /* How many LSMs were built into the kernel? */
>  #define LSM_COUNT (__end_lsm_info - __start_lsm_info)
> @@ -746,6 +746,29 @@ static int lsm_superblock_alloc(struct super_block *sb)
>  	RC;							\
>  })
>  
> +#define call_int_hook_xattr(XATTRS, FUNC, IRC, ...) ({		\
> +	int RC = IRC;						\
> +	int i = 0;						\
> +	do {							\
> +		struct security_hook_list *P;			\
> +								\
> +		hlist_for_each_entry(P, &security_hook_heads.FUNC, list) { \
> +			RC = P->hook.FUNC(__VA_ARGS__);		\
> +			if (RC == -EOPNOTSUPP)			\
> +				continue;			\
> +			if (RC != 0 && RC != IRC)		\
> +				break;				\
> +			if (i >= MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR) {		\
> +				RC = -ENOMEM;			\
> +				break;				\
> +			}					\
> +			XATTRS++;				\
> +			i++;					\
> +		}						\
> +	} while (0);						\
> +	RC;							\
> +})
> +

No. Please open code this in the one place it is used.

>  /* Security operations */
>  
>  int security_binder_set_context_mgr(const struct cred *mgr)
> @@ -1103,7 +1126,7 @@ int security_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
>  				     dir, qstr, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>  	memset(new_xattrs, 0, sizeof(new_xattrs));
>  	lsm_xattr = new_xattrs;
> -	ret = call_int_hook(inode_init_security, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode, dir, qstr,
> +	ret = call_int_hook_xattr(lsm_xattr, inode_init_security, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode, dir, qstr,
>  						&lsm_xattr->name,
>  						&lsm_xattr->value,
>  						&lsm_xattr->value_len);
> @@ -1111,7 +1134,7 @@ int security_inode_init_security(struct inode *inode, struct inode *dir,
>  		goto out;
>  
>  	evm_xattr = lsm_xattr + 1;
> -	ret = evm_inode_init_security(inode, lsm_xattr, evm_xattr);
> +	ret = evm_inode_init_security(inode, new_xattrs, evm_xattr);
>  	if (ret)
>  		goto out;
>  	ret = initxattrs(inode, new_xattrs, fs_data);



More information about the Linux-security-module-archive mailing list