Re: [PATCH v2 4/6] LSM: lsm_context in security_dentry_init_security

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On 10/21/2024 4:39 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Oct 14, 2024 Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Replace the (secctx,seclen) pointer pair with a single lsm_context
>> pointer to allow return of the LSM identifier along with the context
>> and context length. This allows security_release_secctx() to know how
>> to release the context. Callers have been modified to use or save the
>> returned data from the new structure.
>>
>> Special care is taken in the NFS code, which uses the same data structure
>> for its own copied labels as it does for the data which comes from
>> security_dentry_init_security().  In the case of copied labels the data
>> has to be freed, not released.
>>
>> The scaffolding funtion lsmcontext_init() is no longer needed and is
>> removed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: ceph-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Cc: linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ---
>>  fs/ceph/super.h               |  3 +--
>>  fs/ceph/xattr.c               | 16 ++++++----------
>>  fs/fuse/dir.c                 | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>  fs/nfs/dir.c                  |  2 +-
>>  fs/nfs/inode.c                | 17 ++++++++++-------
>>  fs/nfs/internal.h             |  8 +++++---
>>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c             | 22 +++++++++-------------
>>  fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c              | 22 ++++++++++++----------
>>  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h |  2 +-
>>  include/linux/nfs4.h          |  8 ++++----
>>  include/linux/nfs_fs.h        |  2 +-
>>  include/linux/security.h      | 26 +++-----------------------
>>  security/security.c           |  9 ++++-----
>>  security/selinux/hooks.c      |  9 +++++----
>>  14 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 101 deletions(-)
> ..
>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
>> index 039898d70954..47652d217d05 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs.h
>> @@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ static inline void nfs4_label_free(struct nfs4_label *label)
>>  {
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_NFS_V4_SECURITY_LABEL
>>  	if (label) {
>> -		kfree(label->label);
>> +		kfree(label->lsmctx.context);
> Shouldn't this be a call to security_release_secctx() instead of a raw
> kfree()?

As mentioned in the description, the NFS data is a copy that NFS
manages, so it does need to be freed, not released.

>
>>  		kfree(label);
>>  	}
>>  #endif
> --
> paul-moore.com
>




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