On 11/2/23 19:59, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 06:56:59PM +0100, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
On 10/24/23 17:30, Casey Schaufler wrote:
On 10/24/2023 2:49 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
On 10/23/23 17:13, Casey Schaufler wrote:
On 10/23/2023 12:28 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
On 10/21/23 00:20, Casey Schaufler wrote:
On 10/20/2023 8:58 AM, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
This patch introduces LSM hooks for devices creation,
destruction and opening operations, checking the
application is allowed to perform these operations for
the Virtio device type.
Why do you think that there needs to be a special LSM check for virtio
devices? What can't existing device attributes be used?
Michael asked for a way for SELinux to allow/prevent the creation of
some types of devices [0].
A device is created using ioctl() on VDUSE control chardev. Its type is
specified via a field in the structure passed in argument.
I didn't see other way than adding dedicated LSM hooks to achieve this,
but it is possible that their is a better way to do it?
At the very least the hook should be made more general, and I'd have to
see a proposal before commenting on that. security_dev_destroy(dev)
might
be a better approach. If there's reason to control destruction of vduse
devices it's reasonable to assume that there are other devices with the
same or similar properties.
VDUSE is different from other devices as the device is actually
implemented by the user-space application, so this is very specific in
my opinion.
This is hardly unique. If you're implementing the device
in user-space you may well be able to implement the desired
controls there.
Since SELinux is your target use case, can you explain why you can't
create SELinux policy to enforce the restrictions you're after? I
believe
(but can be proven wrong, of course) that SELinux has mechanism for
dealing
with controls on ioctls.
I am not aware of such mechanism to deal with ioctl(), if you have a
pointer that would be welcome.
security/selinux/hooks.c
We might be able to extend selinux_file_ioctl(), but that will only
covers the ioctl for the control file, this patch also adds hook for the
device file opening that would need dedicated hook as the device type
information is stored in the device's private data.
Michael, before going further, I would be interested in your feedback.
Was this patch what you had in mind when requesting for a way to
allow/deny devices types for a given application?
Regards,
Maxime
Yes, this is more or less what I had in mind.
Great.
Do you think we need to cover both ioctl() on the control file and
open() on the device file, or only ioctl() is enough?
If the former, we will need VDUSE-specific hooks. I may be able to
improve my patch to have a single hook instead of 3 by passing the type
of operation as an extra argument (create/destroy/open).
If the latter, we may be able to extend the generic ioctl hook.
Personally, I think it would make sense to also ensure a given
application can only open existing VDUSE devices it supports. For
example, openvswitch should only be allowed to open networking VDUSE
devices.
Thanks,
Maxime
Thanks,
Maxime
Thanks,
Maxime
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