This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled smack: Handle SMACK64TRANSMUTE in smack_inode_setsecurity() 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-handle-smack64transmute-in-smack_inode_setsecu.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 fe6037f80c541bc1daec4586c14fb22f58f4a3e7 Author: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Nov 16 10:01:22 2023 +0100 smack: Handle SMACK64TRANSMUTE in smack_inode_setsecurity() [ Upstream commit ac02f007d64eb2769d0bde742aac4d7a5fc6e8a5 ] If the SMACK64TRANSMUTE xattr is provided, and the inode is a directory, update the in-memory inode flags by setting SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE. 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 72b371812a001..6e5f74813c101 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -2856,6 +2856,15 @@ static int smack_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, if (value == NULL || size > SMK_LONGLABEL || size == 0) return -EINVAL; + if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_TRANSMUTE) == 0) { + if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || size != TRANS_TRUE_SIZE || + strncmp(value, TRANS_TRUE, TRANS_TRUE_SIZE) != 0) + return -EINVAL; + + nsp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE; + return 0; + } + skp = smk_import_entry(value, size); if (IS_ERR(skp)) return PTR_ERR(skp);