This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
smack: Set SMACK64TRANSMUTE only for dirs in smack_inode_setxattr()
to the 6.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
smack-set-smack64transmute-only-for-dirs-in-smack_in.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 38ee712e352f29a46f8a0e64b3abddf563c5eebe
Author: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Nov 16 10:01:21 2023 +0100
smack: Set SMACK64TRANSMUTE only for dirs in smack_inode_setxattr()
[ Upstream commit 9c82169208dde516510aaba6bbd8b13976690c5d ]
Since the SMACK64TRANSMUTE xattr makes sense only for directories, enforce
this restriction in smack_inode_setxattr().
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 5c6d1125f8db ("Smack: Transmute labels on specified directories") # v2.6.38.x
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index 0fdbf04cc2583..72b371812a001 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -1314,7 +1314,8 @@ static int smack_inode_setxattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
check_star = 1;
} else if (strcmp(name, XATTR_NAME_SMACKTRANSMUTE) == 0) {
check_priv = 1;
- if (size != TRANS_TRUE_SIZE ||
+ if (!S_ISDIR(d_backing_inode(dentry)->i_mode) ||
+ size != TRANS_TRUE_SIZE ||
strncmp(value, TRANS_TRUE, TRANS_TRUE_SIZE) != 0)
rc = -EINVAL;
} else
