On 10/14/2015 5:42 AM, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
> Smackfs/syslog is analogous to onlycap and unconfined. When not filled
> they don't do anything. In such cases onlycap and unconfined displayed
> nothing when read, but syslog unconditionally displayed star. This
> doesn't work well with namespaces where the star could have been
> unmapped. Besides the meaning of this star was different then a star
> that could be written to this file. This was misleading.
>
> This also brings syslog read/write functions on par with onlycap and
> unconfined where it is possible to reset the value to NULL as should be
> possible according to comment in smackfs.c describing smack_syslog_label
> variable.
>
> Before that the initial state was to allow (smack_syslog_label was
> NULL), but after writing star to it the current had to be labeled star
> as well to have an access, even thought reading the smackfs/syslog
> returned the same result in both cases.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukasz Pawelczyk <l.pawelczyk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/smack/smackfs.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
> index ce8d503..05e09ee2 100644
> --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
> +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
> @@ -2634,23 +2634,20 @@ static const struct file_operations smk_change_rule_ops = {
> static ssize_t smk_read_syslog(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
> size_t cn, loff_t *ppos)
> {
> - struct smack_known *skp;
> + char *smack = "";
> ssize_t rc = -EINVAL;
> int asize;
>
> if (*ppos != 0)
> return 0;
>
> - if (smack_syslog_label == NULL)
> - skp = &smack_known_star;
> - else
> - skp = smack_syslog_label;
> + if (smack_syslog_label != NULL)
> + smack = smack_syslog_label->smk_known;
>
> - asize = strlen(skp->smk_known) + 1;
> + asize = strlen(smack) + 1;
>
> if (cn >= asize)
> - rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, cn, ppos, skp->smk_known,
> - asize);
> + rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, cn, ppos, smack, asize);
>
> return rc;
> }
> @@ -2678,16 +2675,31 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_syslog(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
> if (data == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - if (copy_from_user(data, buf, count) != 0)
> + if (copy_from_user(data, buf, count) != 0) {
> rc = -EFAULT;
> - else {
> - skp = smk_import_entry(data, count);
> - if (IS_ERR(skp))
> - rc = PTR_ERR(skp);
> - else
> - smack_syslog_label = skp;
> + goto freeout;
> }
>
> + /*
> + * Clear the smack_syslog_label on invalid label errors. This means
> + * that we can pass a null string to unset the syslog value.
> + *
> + * Importing will also reject a label beginning with '-',
> + * so "-syslog" will also work.
> + *
> + * But do so only on invalid label, not on system errors.
> + */
> + skp = smk_import_entry(data, count);
> + if (PTR_ERR(skp) == -EINVAL)
> + skp = NULL;
> + else if (IS_ERR(skp)) {
> + rc = PTR_ERR(skp);
> + goto freeout;
> + }
> +
> + smack_syslog_label = skp;
> +
> +freeout:
> kfree(data);
> return rc;
> }
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