What is the status of these patches (kernel and libselinux)?
It seems to me there is no arguments to use percentage encoding to handle
object names including white-spaces or multibyte characters.
Thanks,
2011/4/16 Kohei KaiGai <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> This patch allows to accept percent-encoded object name as the forth
> argument of /selinux/create interface to avoid possible bugs when we
> supply an object name that includes whitespace or multibytes.
>
> Although I could not test this patch on named TYPE_TRANSITION rules,
> but printk() messages for debugging seems to me the logic works correctly.
> I assume the libselinux provide the logic to encode object name, so it shall
> be applied transparently for the viewpoint of application.
>
> Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kohei.kaigai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index 973f5a4..4fde279 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> #include <linux/percpu.h>
> #include <linux/audit.h>
> #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/ctype.h>
>
> /* selinuxfs pseudo filesystem for exporting the security policy API.
> Based on the proc code and the fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c code. */
> @@ -750,6 +751,15 @@ out:
> return length;
> }
>
> +static inline int hexcode_to_int(int code)
> +{
> + if (code == '\0' || !isxdigit(code))
> + return -1;
> + if (isdigit(code))
> + return code - '0';
> + return tolower(code) - 'a' + 10;
> +}
> +
> static ssize_t sel_write_create(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size)
> {
> char *scon = NULL, *tcon = NULL;
> @@ -784,8 +794,34 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_create(struct file
> *file, char *buf, size_t size)
> nargs = sscanf(buf, "%s %s %hu %s", scon, tcon, &tclass, namebuf);
> if (nargs < 3 || nargs > 4)
> goto out;
> - if (nargs == 4)
> + if (nargs == 4) {
> + /*
> + * If and when the name of new object to be queried contains
> + * either whitespace or multibyte characters, they shall be
> + * encoded based on the percentage-encoding rule.
> + * If not encoded, the sscanf logic picks up only left-half
> + * of the supplied name; splitted by a whitespace unexpectedly.
> + */
> + char *r, *w;
> + int c1, c2;
> +
> + r = w = namebuf;
> + do {
> + c1 = *r++;
> + if (c1 == '+')
> + c1 = ' ';
> + else if (c1 == '%') {
> + if ((c1 = hexcode_to_int(*r++)) < 0)
> + goto out;
> + if ((c2 = hexcode_to_int(*r++)) < 0)
> + goto out;
> + c1 = (c1 << 4) | c2;
> + }
> + *w++ = c1;
> + } while (c1 != '\0');
> +
> objname = namebuf;
> + }
>
> length = security_context_to_sid(scon, strlen(scon) + 1, &ssid);
> if (length)
> --
> 1.7.4.1
>
--
KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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