4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 2d7f105edbb3b2be5ffa4d833abbf9b6965e9ce7 ] If the current task fails the check for the queried capability via `capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)` LSMs like SELinux generate a denial message. Issuing such denial messages unnecessarily can lead to a policy author granting more privileges to a subject than needed to silence them. Reorder CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks after the check whether the operation is actually privileged. Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- security/keys/keyctl.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c index 9394d72a77e80..9e52a3e0fc672 100644 --- a/security/keys/keyctl.c +++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c @@ -922,14 +922,19 @@ long keyctl_chown_key(key_serial_t id, uid_t user, gid_t group) ret = -EACCES; down_write(&key->sem); - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { + { + bool is_privileged_op = false; + /* only the sysadmin can chown a key to some other UID */ if (user != (uid_t) -1 && !uid_eq(key->uid, uid)) - goto error_put; + is_privileged_op = true; /* only the sysadmin can set the key's GID to a group other * than one of those that the current process subscribes to */ if (group != (gid_t) -1 && !gid_eq(gid, key->gid) && !in_group_p(gid)) + is_privileged_op = true; + + if (is_privileged_op && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) goto error_put; } @@ -1029,7 +1034,7 @@ long keyctl_setperm_key(key_serial_t id, key_perm_t perm) down_write(&key->sem); /* if we're not the sysadmin, we can only change a key that we own */ - if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || uid_eq(key->uid, current_fsuid())) { + if (uid_eq(key->uid, current_fsuid()) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) { key->perm = perm; ret = 0; } -- 2.40.1