Use the new security_kernfs_init_security() hook to allow LSMs to possibly assign a non-default security context to a newly created kernfs node based on the attributes of the new node and also its parent node. This fixes an issue with cgroupfs under SELinux, where newly created cgroup subdirectories/files would not inherit its parent's context if it had been set explicitly to a non-default value (other than the genfs context specified by the policy). This can be reproduced as follows (on Fedora/RHEL): # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test # # Need permissive to change the label under Fedora policy: # setenforce 0 # chcon -t container_file_t /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test # ls -lZ /sys/fs/cgroup/unified total 0 -r--r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.controllers -rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.max.depth -rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.max.descendants -rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.procs -r--r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.stat -rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.subtree_control -rw-r--r--. 1 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 cgroup.threads drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 init.scope drwxr-xr-x. 26 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:21 system.slice drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root system_u:object_r:container_file_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:15 test drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:06 user.slice # mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/subdir Actual result: # ls -ldZ /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/subdir drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root system_u:object_r:cgroup_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:15 /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/subdir Expected result: # ls -ldZ /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/subdir drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root unconfined_u:object_r:container_file_t:s0 0 Jan 29 03:15 /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/subdir Link: https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-kernel/issues/39 Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/kernfs/dir.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/kernfs/dir.c b/fs/kernfs/dir.c index 6048f2ce85c4..c5f6e6c76982 100644 --- a/fs/kernfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/kernfs/dir.c @@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_node_from_dentry(struct dentry *dentry) } static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, + struct kernfs_node *parent, const char *name, umode_t mode, kuid_t uid, kgid_t gid, unsigned flags) @@ -671,6 +672,12 @@ static struct kernfs_node *__kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_root *root, goto err_out3; } + if (parent) { + ret = security_kernfs_init_security(parent, kn); + if (ret) + goto err_out3; + } + return kn; err_out3: @@ -689,7 +696,7 @@ struct kernfs_node *kernfs_new_node(struct kernfs_node *parent, { struct kernfs_node *kn; - kn = __kernfs_new_node(kernfs_root(parent), + kn = __kernfs_new_node(kernfs_root(parent), parent, name, mode, uid, gid, flags); if (kn) { kernfs_get(parent); @@ -958,7 +965,7 @@ struct kernfs_root *kernfs_create_root(struct kernfs_syscall_ops *scops, INIT_LIST_HEAD(&root->supers); root->next_generation = 1; - kn = __kernfs_new_node(root, "", S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO, + kn = __kernfs_new_node(root, NULL, "", S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO, GLOBAL_ROOT_UID, GLOBAL_ROOT_GID, KERNFS_DIR); if (!kn) { -- 2.20.1