[PATCH 2/2] smack: recognize ipv4 CIPSO w/o categories
Konstantin Andreev
andreev at swemel.ru
Thu Jan 16 23:40:34 UTC 2025
If SMACK label has CIPSO representation w/o categories, e.g.:
| # cat /smack/cipso2
| foo 10
| @ 250/2
| ...
then SMACK does not recognize such CIPSO in input ipv4 packets
and substitues '*' label instead. Audit records may look like
| lsm=SMACK fn=smack_socket_sock_rcv_skb action=denied
| subject="*" object="_" requested=w pid=0 comm="swapper/1" ...
This happens in two steps:
1) security/smack/smackfs.c`smk_set_cipso
does not clear NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT
from (struct smack_known *)skp->smk_netlabel.flags
on assigning CIPSO w/o categories:
| rcu_assign_pointer(skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat, ncats.attr.mls.cat);
| skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.lvl = ncats.attr.mls.lvl;
2) security/smack/smack_lsm.c`smack_from_secattr
can not match skp->smk_netlabel with input packet's
struct netlbl_lsm_secattr *sap
because sap->flags have not NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT (what is correct)
but skp->smk_netlabel.flags have (what is incorrect):
| if ((sap->flags & NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT) == 0) {
| if ((skp->smk_netlabel.flags &
| NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT) == 0)
| found = 1;
| break;
| }
This commit sets/clears NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT in
skp->smk_netlabel.flags according to the presense of CIPSO categories.
The update of smk_netlabel is not atomic, so input packets processing
still may be incorrect during short time while update proceeds.
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev <andreev at swemel.ru>
---
security/smack/smackfs.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index ef34b0bac603..a7886cfc9dc3 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -904,6 +904,10 @@ static ssize_t smk_set_cipso(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
if (rc >= 0) {
old_cat = skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat;
rcu_assign_pointer(skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.cat, ncats.attr.mls.cat);
+ if (ncats.attr.mls.cat)
+ skp->smk_netlabel.flags |= NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT;
+ else
+ skp->smk_netlabel.flags &= ~(u32)NETLBL_SECATTR_MLS_CAT;
skp->smk_netlabel.attr.mls.lvl = ncats.attr.mls.lvl;
synchronize_rcu();
netlbl_catmap_free(old_cat);
--
2.43.0
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