In [1], Ondrej Mosnacek explained they discovered the (userspace-facing)
sockets returned by accept(2) when using MPTCP always end up with the
label representing the kernel (typically system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0),
while it would make more sense to inherit the context from the parent
socket (the one that is passed to accept(2)). Thanks to the
participation of Paul Moore in the discussions, modifications on MPTCP
side have started and the result is available here.
Paolo Abeni worked hard to refactor the initialisation of the first
subflow of a listen socket. The first subflow allocation is no longer
done at the initialisation of the socket but later, when the connection
request is received or when requested by the userspace. This was a
prerequisite to proper support of SELinux/LSM labels with MPTCP and
accept. The last batch containing the commit ddb1a072f858 ("mptcp: move
first subflow allocation at mpc access time") [2] has been recently
accepted and applied in netdev/net-next repo [3].
This series of 2 patches is based on top of the lsm/next branch. Despite
the fact they depend on commits that are in netdev/net-next repo to
support the new feature, they can be applied in lsm/next without
creating conflicts with net-next or causing build issues. These two
patches on top of lsm/next still passes all the MPTCP-specific tests.
The only thing is that the new feature only works properly with the
patches that are on netdev/net-next. The tests with the new labels have
been done on top of them.
Regarding the two patches, the first one introduces a new LSM hook
called from MPTCP side when creating a new subflow socket. This hook
allows the security module to relabel the subflow according to the owing
process. The second one implements this new hook on the SELinux side.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/CAFqZXNs2LF-OoQBUiiSEyranJUXkPLcCfBkMkwFeM6qEwMKCTw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [1]
Link: https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ddb1a072f858 [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20230414-upstream-net-next-20230414-mptcp-refactor-first-subflow-init-v1-0-04d177057eb9@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ [3]
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:
- Address Paul's comments, see the notes on each patch
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419-upstream-lsm-next-20230419-mptcp-sublows-user-ctx-v1-0-9d4064cb0075@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Paolo Abeni (2):
security, lsm: Introduce security_mptcp_add_subflow()
selinux: Implement mptcp_add_subflow hook
include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 1 +
include/linux/security.h | 6 ++++++
net/mptcp/subflow.c | 6 ++++++
security/security.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
security/selinux/hooks.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
security/selinux/netlabel.c | 8 ++++++--
6 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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base-commit: d82dcd9e21b77d338dc4875f3d4111f0db314a7c
change-id: 20230419-upstream-lsm-next-20230419-mptcp-sublows-user-ctx-eee658fafcba
Best regards,
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Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
