[RFC PATCH v2 22/41] arch: wire up the *_r uid and gid system calls
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Thank you for your contribution! Sashiko AI review found 2 potential issue(s) to consider:
- [Medium] audit: missing chown_r family syscalls in audit_change_attr.h
- [Low] arch: commit message states wrong syscall number ranges for *_r syscalls
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commit de1d2caf3a9cdd09efea2705dc6569ed00a466b1
Author: Jan Koester <jan.koester at tuxist.de>
arch: wire up the *_r uid and gid system calls
This commit wires up the 20 extended uid and gid system calls (getuid_r
through fchownat_r) in the generic syscall header and across architecture
syscall tables.
> arch: wire up the *_r uid and gid system calls
>
> Assign 472-491 on all architectures (582-601 on alpha) to getuid_r,
> geteuid_r, getgid_r, getegid_r, setuid_r, setgid_r, setreuid_r,
> setregid_r, setresuid_r, getresuid_r, setresgid_r, getresgid_r,
> setfsuid_r, setfsgid_r, getgroups_r, setgroups_r, chown_r, lchown_r,
> fchown_r and fchownat_r.
>
> __kernel_uid_r_t has the same layout on all ABIs, so the compat ABIs
> use the native entry points.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Koester <jan.koester at tuxist.de>
[Severity: Low]
Should the syscall number ranges in the commit message be 473-492 (and
583-602 on alpha) instead of 472-491 (and 582-601 on alpha)?
Syscall 472 is already assigned to fchroot in
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h (and 582 in
arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl):
arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl:
582 common fchroot sys_fchroot
583 common getuid_r sys_getuid_r
...
602 common fchownat_r sys_fchownat_r
[ ... ]
> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> index 5b7e77a7c736e..8475635005025 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> @@ -867,8 +867,49 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_rseq_slice_yield, sys_rseq_slice_yield)
> #define __NR_fchroot 472
> __SYSCALL(__NR_fchroot, sys_fchroot)
>
> +#define __NR_getuid_r 473
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_getuid_r, sys_getuid_r)
[ ... ]
> +#define __NR_chown_r 489
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_chown_r, sys_chown_r)
> +#define __NR_lchown_r 490
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_lchown_r, sys_lchown_r)
> +#define __NR_fchown_r 491
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_fchown_r, sys_fchown_r)
> +#define __NR_fchownat_r 492
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_fchownat_r, sys_fchownat_r)
[Severity: Medium]
When wiring up chown_r, lchown_r, fchown_r, and fchownat_r, should these
new syscall numbers also be added to include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h?
Currently include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h lists the existing
ownership-changing syscalls to populate chattr_class[] in lib/audit.c and
compat_chattr_class[] in lib/compat_audit.c:
include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h:
#ifdef __NR_chown
__NR_chown,
__NR_lchown,
#endif
#ifdef __NR_fchown
__NR_fchown,
#endif
...
#ifdef __NR_fchownat
__NR_fchownat,
__NR_fchmodat,
#endif
When an audit watch or directory rule monitors attribute changes,
audit_to_entry_common() in kernel/auditfilter.c expands those classes into
entry->rule.mask[], and __audit_filter_op() -> audit_match_perm() in
kernel/auditsc.c checks whether the syscall number belongs to the attribute
change class:
kernel/auditsc.c:audit_match_perm() {
...
switch (audit_classify_syscall(ctx->arch, n)) {
case AUDITSC_NATIVE:
...
if ((mask & AUDIT_PERM_ATTR) &&
audit_match_class(AUDIT_CLASS_CHATTR, n))
return 1;
return 0;
case AUDITSC_COMPAT: /* 32bit on biarch */
...
if ((mask & AUDIT_PERM_ATTR) &&
audit_match_class(AUDIT_CLASS_CHATTR_32, n))
return 1;
return 0;
...
}
Without the *_r ownership syscalls in
include/asm-generic/audit_change_attr.h, ownership changes made via
sys_chown_r(), sys_lchown_r(), sys_fchown_r(), or sys_fchownat_r() will not
match attribute-change audit watch rules.
[ ... ]
>
> #undef __NR_syscalls
> -#define __NR_syscalls 473
> +#define __NR_syscalls 493
[ ... ]
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