Re: [PATCH] selinux: move user accesses in selinuxfs out of locked regions

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 12:34 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If a user is accessing a file in selinuxfs with a pointer to a userspace
> buffer that is backed by e.g. a userfaultfd, the userspace access can
> stall indefinitely, which can block fsi->mutex if it is held.
>
> For sel_read_policy(), remove the locking, since this method doesn't seem
> to access anything that requires locking.

Forgive me, I'm thinking about this quickly so I could be very wrong
here, but isn't the mutex needed to prevent problems in multi-threaded
apps hitting the same fd at the same time?

> For sel_read_bool(), move the user access below the locked region.
>
> For sel_write_bool() and sel_commit_bools_write(), move the user access
> up above the locked region.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index f3d374d2ca04..065f8cea84e3 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -445,18 +445,13 @@ static ssize_t sel_read_policy(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>         struct policy_load_memory *plm = filp->private_data;
>         int ret;
>
> -       mutex_lock(&fsi->mutex);
> -
>         ret = avc_has_perm(&selinux_state,
>                            current_sid(), SECINITSID_SECURITY,
>                           SECCLASS_SECURITY, SECURITY__READ_POLICY, NULL);
>         if (ret)
> -               goto out;
> +               return ret;
>
> -       ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, plm->data, plm->len);
> -out:
> -       mutex_unlock(&fsi->mutex);
> -       return ret;
> +       return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, plm->data, plm->len);
>  }
>
>  static vm_fault_t sel_mmap_policy_fault(struct vm_fault *vmf)
> @@ -1188,25 +1183,29 @@ static ssize_t sel_read_bool(struct file *filep, char __user *buf,
>         ret = -EINVAL;
>         if (index >= fsi->bool_num || strcmp(name,
>                                              fsi->bool_pending_names[index]))
> -               goto out;
> +               goto out_unlock;
>
>         ret = -ENOMEM;
>         page = (char *)get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
>         if (!page)
> -               goto out;
> +               goto out_unlock;
>
>         cur_enforcing = security_get_bool_value(fsi->state, index);
>         if (cur_enforcing < 0) {
>                 ret = cur_enforcing;
> -               goto out;
> +               goto out_unlock;
>         }
>         length = scnprintf(page, PAGE_SIZE, "%d %d", cur_enforcing,
>                           fsi->bool_pending_values[index]);
> -       ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, page, length);
> -out:
>         mutex_unlock(&fsi->mutex);
> +       ret = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, page, length);
> +out_free:
>         free_page((unsigned long)page);
>         return ret;
> +
> +out_unlock:
> +       mutex_unlock(&fsi->mutex);
> +       goto out_free;
>  }
>
>  static ssize_t sel_write_bool(struct file *filep, const char __user *buf,
> @@ -1219,6 +1218,17 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_bool(struct file *filep, const char __user *buf,
>         unsigned index = file_inode(filep)->i_ino & SEL_INO_MASK;
>         const char *name = filep->f_path.dentry->d_name.name;
>
> +       if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       /* No partial writes. */
> +       if (*ppos != 0)
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +
> +       page = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> +       if (IS_ERR(page))
> +               return PTR_ERR(page);
> +
>         mutex_lock(&fsi->mutex);
>
>         length = avc_has_perm(&selinux_state,
> @@ -1233,22 +1243,6 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_bool(struct file *filep, const char __user *buf,
>                                              fsi->bool_pending_names[index]))
>                 goto out;
>
> -       length = -ENOMEM;
> -       if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
> -               goto out;
> -
> -       /* No partial writes. */
> -       length = -EINVAL;
> -       if (*ppos != 0)
> -               goto out;
> -
> -       page = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> -       if (IS_ERR(page)) {
> -               length = PTR_ERR(page);
> -               page = NULL;
> -               goto out;
> -       }
> -
>         length = -EINVAL;
>         if (sscanf(page, "%d", &new_value) != 1)
>                 goto out;
> @@ -1280,6 +1274,17 @@ static ssize_t sel_commit_bools_write(struct file *filep,
>         ssize_t length;
>         int new_value;
>
> +       if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
> +               return -ENOMEM;
> +
> +       /* No partial writes. */
> +       if (*ppos != 0)
> +               return -EINVAL;
> +
> +       page = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> +       if (IS_ERR(page))
> +               return PTR_ERR(page);
> +
>         mutex_lock(&fsi->mutex);
>
>         length = avc_has_perm(&selinux_state,
> @@ -1289,22 +1294,6 @@ static ssize_t sel_commit_bools_write(struct file *filep,
>         if (length)
>                 goto out;
>
> -       length = -ENOMEM;
> -       if (count >= PAGE_SIZE)
> -               goto out;
> -
> -       /* No partial writes. */
> -       length = -EINVAL;
> -       if (*ppos != 0)
> -               goto out;
> -
> -       page = memdup_user_nul(buf, count);
> -       if (IS_ERR(page)) {
> -               length = PTR_ERR(page);
> -               page = NULL;
> -               goto out;
> -       }
> -
>         length = -EINVAL;
>         if (sscanf(page, "%d", &new_value) != 1)
>                 goto out;
> --
> 2.18.0.rc2.346.g013aa6912e-goog
>


-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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