Re: [PATCH 1/1] selinux,smack: don't bypass permissions check in inode_setsecctx hook

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On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 5:05 PM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 3:51 PM Scott Mayhew <smayhew@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Marek Gresko reports that the root user on an NFS client is able to
> > change the security labels on files on an NFS filesystem that is
> > exported with root squashing enabled.
> >
> > The end of the kerneldoc comment for __vfs_setxattr_noperm() states:
> >
> >  *  This function requires the caller to lock the inode's i_mutex before it
> >  *  is executed. It also assumes that the caller will make the appropriate
> >  *  permission checks.
> >
> > nfsd_setattr() does do permissions checking via fh_verify() and
> > nfsd_permission(), but those don't do all the same permissions checks
> > that are done by security_inode_setxattr() and its related LSM hooks do.
> >
> > Since nfsd_setattr() is the only consumer of security_inode_setsecctx(),
> > simplest solution appears to be to replace the call to
> > __vfs_setxattr_noperm() with a call to __vfs_setxattr_locked().  This
> > fixes the above issue and has the added benefit of causing nfsd to
> > recall conflicting delegations on a file when a client tries to change
> > its security label.
> >
> > Reported-by: Marek Gresko <marek.gresko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218809
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Mayhew <smayhew@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  security/selinux/hooks.c   | 4 ++--
> >  security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Thanks Scott, this looks good to me, but since it touches Smack too
> I'd also like to get Casey's ACK on this patch; if for some reason we
> don't hear from Casey after a bit I'll go ahead and merge it.
> Speaking of merging, since this touches both SELinux and Smack I'll
> likely pull this in via the LSM tree, with a marking for the stable
> kernels, if anyone has any objections to that please let me know.

Merged into lsm/stable-6.11 so we can get this into linux-next and the
automated SELinux testing, assuming all goes we'll I'll send this up
to Linus later this week.  Thanks all!

-- 
paul-moore.com





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