[PATCH] lsm: handle the NULL buffer case in lsm_fill_user_ctx()

[Casey Schaufler]

On 3/15/2024 8:55 AM, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:18:38AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 11:02 AM Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 10:22:03PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>>>> Passing a NULL buffer into the lsm_get_self_attr() syscall is a valid
>>>> way to quickly determine the minimum size of the buffer needed to for
>>>> the syscall to return all of the LSM attributes to the caller.
>>>> Unfortunately we/I broke that behavior in commit d7cf3412a9f6
>>>> ("lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()")
>>>> such that it returned an error to the caller; this patch restores the
>>>> original desired behavior of using the NULL buffer as a quick way to
>>>> correctly size the attribute buffer.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>>>> Fixes: d7cf3412a9f6 ("lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>  security/security.c | 8 +++++++-
>>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
>>>> index 5b2e0a15377d..7e118858b545 100644
>>>> --- a/security/security.c
>>>> +++ b/security/security.c
>>>> @@ -780,7 +780,9 @@ static int lsm_superblock_alloc(struct super_block *sb)
>>>>   * @id: LSM id
>>>>   * @flags: LSM defined flags
>>>>   *
>>>> - * Fill all of the fields in a userspace lsm_ctx structure.
>>>> + * Fill all of the fields in a userspace lsm_ctx structure.  If @uctx is NULL
>>>> + * simply calculate the required size to output via @utc_len and return
>>>> + * success.
>>>>   *
>>>>   * Returns 0 on success, -E2BIG if userspace buffer is not large enough,
>>>>   * -EFAULT on a copyout error, -ENOMEM if memory can't be allocated.
>>>> @@ -799,6 +801,10 @@ int lsm_fill_user_ctx(struct lsm_ctx __user *uctx, u32 *uctx_len,
>>>>               goto out;
>>>>       }
>>>>
>>>> +     /* no buffer - return success/0 and set @uctx_len to the req size */
>>>> +     if (!uctx)
>>>> +             goto out;
>>> If the user just passes in *uctx_len=0, then they will get -E2BIG
>>> but still will get the length in *uctx_len.
>> Right, which is the desired behavior, this patch allows userspace to
>> not have to worry about supplying a buffer if they just want to check
>> the required size, regardless of the value passed in @uctx_len.
> To be clear - I was saying that is the behavior before your patch.
>
> (If I'm not wrong)
>
> This patch changes behavior as follows:
>
> Before this patch, there was one way for the user to query the required
> size: send in a length of 0, get back E2BIG and check the *uctx_len you
> had passed in for the required value.
>
> After this patch, there are two ways - one resulting in -E2BIG as before,
> and one requiring uctx_len to be set to a large value *and* uctx to be
> NULL, getting rc=0 and taking that to mean look at the new uctx_len value.
>
>>> To use it this new way, they have to first set *uctx_len to a
>>> value larger than nctx_len could possibly be, else they'll...
>>> still get -E2BIG.
>> True.
>>
>>> So I'm not sure this patch has value.
>> Oh, but it resolves a kselftest failure in a released kernel, that's
>> worth a *lot* in my mind.
> Sorry, you didn't mention the test in the commit message.  Which testcase?

tools/testing/selftests/lsm/lsm_get_self_attr_test.c

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> -serge
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