[PATCH v2 12/30] smack: implement set acl hook

[Paul Moore]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 11:24 AM Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
> xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
> interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
> userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
> understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
> making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
> building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
> operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
> easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].
>
> So far posix acls were passed as a void blob to the security and
> integrity modules. Some of them like evm then proceed to interpret the
> void pointer and convert it into the kernel internal struct posix acl
> representation to perform their integrity checking magic. This is
> obviously pretty problematic as that requires knowledge that only the
> vfs is guaranteed to have and has lead to various bugs. Add a proper
> security hook for setting posix acls and pass down the posix acls in
> their appropriate vfs format instead of hacking it through a void
> pointer stored in the uapi format.
>
> I spent considerate time in the security module infrastructure and
> audited all codepaths. Smack has no restrictions based on the posix
> acl values passed through it. The capability hook doesn't need to be
> called either because it only has restrictions on security.* xattrs. So
> this all becomes a very simple hook for smack.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner at kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Notes:
>     /* v2 */
>     unchanged
>
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

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