[PATCH 2/2] lsm: fix default return value for inode_getsecctx

Ondrej Mosnacek omosnace at redhat.com
Tue Oct 31 12:32:07 UTC 2023


-EOPNOTSUPP is the return value that implements a "no-op" hook, not 0.

Without this fix having only the BPF LSM enabled (with no programs
attached) can cause uninitialized variable reads in
nfsd4_encode_fattr(), because the BPF hook returns 0 without touching
the 'ctxlen' variable and the corresponding 'contextlen' variable in
nfsd4_encode_fattr() remains uninitialized, yet being treated as valid
based on the 0 return value.

Reported-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding at redhat.com>
Fixes: 98e828a0650f ("security: Refactor declaration of LSM hooks")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace at redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
index 4dd55fdfec267..ff217a5ce5521 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, release_secctx, char *secdata, u32 seclen)
 LSM_HOOK(void, LSM_RET_VOID, inode_invalidate_secctx, struct inode *inode)
 LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_notifysecctx, struct inode *inode, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen)
 LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_setsecctx, struct dentry *dentry, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen)
-LSM_HOOK(int, 0, inode_getsecctx, struct inode *inode, void **ctx,
+LSM_HOOK(int, -EOPNOTSUPP, inode_getsecctx, struct inode *inode, void **ctx,
 	 u32 *ctxlen)
 
 #if defined(CONFIG_SECURITY) && defined(CONFIG_WATCH_QUEUE)
-- 
2.41.0



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