[PATCH] selinux: ignore unknown extended permissions

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When evaluating extended permissions, ignore unknown permissions instead
of calling BUG(). This commit ensures that future permissions can be
added without interfering with older kernels.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: fa1aa143ac4a ("selinux: extended permissions for ioctls")
Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 971c45d576ba..3d5c563cfc4c 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -979,7 +979,10 @@ void services_compute_xperms_decision(struct extended_perms_decision *xpermd,
 			return;
 		break;
 	default:
-		BUG();
+		pr_warn_once(
+			"SELinux: unknown extended permission (%u) will be ignored\n",
+			node->datum.u.xperms->specified);
+		return;
 	}
 
 	if (node->key.specified == AVTAB_XPERMS_ALLOWED) {
@@ -998,7 +1001,8 @@ void services_compute_xperms_decision(struct extended_perms_decision *xpermd,
 					    &node->datum.u.xperms->perms,
 					    xpermd->dontaudit);
 	} else {
-		BUG();
+		pr_warn_once("SELinux: unknown specified key (%u)\n",
+			     node->key.specified);
 	}
 }
 





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