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<title>linux-toradex.git/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c, branch v6.17</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>apparmor: fix: accept2 being specifie even when permission table is presnt</title>
<updated>2025-07-20T09:31:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
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<published>2025-05-22T20:54:05+00:00</published>
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The transition to the perms32 permission table dropped the need for
the accept2 table as permissions. However accept2 can be used for
flags and may be present even when the perms32 table is present. So
instead of checking on version, check whether the table is present.

Fixes: 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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The transition to the perms32 permission table dropped the need for
the accept2 table as permissions. However accept2 can be used for
flags and may be present even when the perms32 table is present. So
instead of checking on version, check whether the table is present.

Fixes: 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<title>apparmor: transition from a list of rules to a vector of rules</title>
<updated>2025-07-20T09:31:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-17T09:46:37+00:00</published>
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The set of rules on a profile is not dynamically extended, instead
if a new ruleset is needed a new version of the profile is created.
This allows us to use a vector of rules instead of a list, slightly
reducing memory usage and simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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The set of rules on a profile is not dynamically extended, instead
if a new ruleset is needed a new version of the profile is created.
This allows us to use a vector of rules instead of a list, slightly
reducing memory usage and simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: mitigate parser generating large xtables</title>
<updated>2025-07-16T05:39:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-24T04:04:51+00:00</published>
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Some versions of the parser are generating an xtable transition per
state in the state machine, even when the state machine isn't using
the transition table.

The parser bug is triggered by
commit 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")

In addition to fixing this in userspace, mitigate this in the kernel
as part of the policy verification checks by detecting this situation
and adjusting to what is actually used, or if not used at all freeing
it, so we are not wasting unneeded memory on policy.

Fixes: 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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Some versions of the parser are generating an xtable transition per
state in the state machine, even when the state machine isn't using
the transition table.

The parser bug is triggered by
commit 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")

In addition to fixing this in userspace, mitigate this in the kernel
as part of the policy verification checks by detecting this situation
and adjusting to what is actually used, or if not used at all freeing
it, so we are not wasting unneeded memory on policy.

Fixes: 2e12c5f06017 ("apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<title>apparmor: Fix incorrect profile-&gt;signal range check</title>
<updated>2025-05-17T08:49:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.i.king@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-17T08:49:20+00:00</published>
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The check on profile-&gt;signal is always false, the value can never be
less than 1 *and* greater than MAXMAPPED_SIG. Fix this by replacing
the logical operator &amp;&amp; with ||.

Fixes: 84c455decf27 ("apparmor: add support for profiles to define the kill signal")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.i.king@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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The check on profile-&gt;signal is always false, the value can never be
less than 1 *and* greater than MAXMAPPED_SIG. Fix this by replacing
the logical operator &amp;&amp; with ||.

Fixes: 84c455decf27 ("apparmor: add support for profiles to define the kill signal")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.i.king@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>security/apparmor: use kfree_sensitive() in unpack_secmark()</title>
<updated>2025-05-17T08:20:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zilin Guan</name>
<email>zilin@seu.edu.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-18T04:52:50+00:00</published>
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The unpack_secmark() function currently uses kfree() to release memory
allocated for secmark structures and their labels. However, if a failure
occurs after partially parsing secmark, sensitive data may remain in
memory, posing a security risk.

To mitigate this, replace kfree() with kfree_sensitive() for freeing
secmark structures and their labels, aligning with the approach used
in free_ruleset().

I am submitting this as an RFC to seek freedback on whether this change
is appropriate and aligns with the subsystem's expectations. If
confirmed to be helpful, I will send a formal patch.

Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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The unpack_secmark() function currently uses kfree() to release memory
allocated for secmark structures and their labels. However, if a failure
occurs after partially parsing secmark, sensitive data may remain in
memory, posing a security risk.

To mitigate this, replace kfree() with kfree_sensitive() for freeing
secmark structures and their labels, aligning with the approach used
in free_ruleset().

I am submitting this as an RFC to seek freedback on whether this change
is appropriate and aligns with the subsystem's expectations. If
confirmed to be helpful, I will send a formal patch.

Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan &lt;zilin@seu.edu.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: add support for profiles to define the kill signal</title>
<updated>2025-01-18T14:47:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-21T23:54:58+00:00</published>
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Previously apparmor has only sent SIGKILL but there are cases where
it can be useful to send a different signal. Allow the profile
to optionally specify a different value.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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Previously apparmor has only sent SIGKILL but there are cases where
it can be useful to send a different signal. Allow the profile
to optionally specify a different value.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: add additional flags to extended permission.</title>
<updated>2025-01-18T14:47:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-23T09:30:33+00:00</published>
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This is a step towards merging the file and policy state machines.

With the switch to extended permissions the state machine's ACCEPT2
table became unused freeing it up to store state specific flags. The
first flags to be stored are FLAG_OWNER and FLAG other which paves the
way towards merging the file and policydb perms into a single
permission table.

Currently Lookups based on the objects ownership conditional will
still need separate fns, this will be address in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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This is a step towards merging the file and policy state machines.

With the switch to extended permissions the state machine's ACCEPT2
table became unused freeing it up to store state specific flags. The
first flags to be stored are FLAG_OWNER and FLAG other which paves the
way towards merging the file and policydb perms into a single
permission table.

Currently Lookups based on the objects ownership conditional will
still need separate fns, this will be address in a following patch.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: carry mediation check on label</title>
<updated>2025-01-18T14:47:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-27T17:31:06+00:00</published>
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In order to speed up the mediated check, precompute and store the
result as a bit per class type. This will not only allow us to
speed up the mediation check but is also a step to removing the
unconfined special cases as the unconfined check can be replaced
with the generic label_mediates() check.

Note: label check does not currently work for capabilities and resources
      which need to have their mediation updated first.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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In order to speed up the mediated check, precompute and store the
result as a bit per class type. This will not only allow us to
speed up the mediation check but is also a step to removing the
unconfined special cases as the unconfined check can be replaced
with the generic label_mediates() check.

Note: label check does not currently work for capabilities and resources
      which need to have their mediation updated first.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>apparmor: document first entry is in packed perms struct is reserved</title>
<updated>2024-11-27T03:21:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Johansen</name>
<email>john.johansen@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-09T19:45:58+00:00</published>
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Add a comment to unpack_perm to document the first entry in the packed
perms struct is reserved, and make a non-functional change of unpacking
to a temporary stack variable named "reserved" to help suppor the
documentation of which value is reserved.

Suggested-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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Add a comment to unpack_perm to document the first entry in the packed
perms struct is reserved, and make a non-functional change of unpacking
to a temporary stack variable named "reserved" to help suppor the
documentation of which value is reserved.

Suggested-by: Serge E. Hallyn &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>move asm/unaligned.h to linux/unaligned.h</title>
<updated>2024-10-02T21:23:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-01T19:35:57+00:00</published>
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

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	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
done
git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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asm/unaligned.h is always an include of asm-generic/unaligned.h;
might as well move that thing to linux/unaligned.h and include
that - there's nothing arch-specific in that header.

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	sed -i -e "s/asm-generic\/unaligned.h/linux\/unaligned.h/" $i
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git mv include/asm-generic/unaligned.h include/linux/unaligned.h
git mv tools/include/asm-generic/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
sed -i -e "/unaligned.h/d" include/asm-generic/Kbuild
sed -i -e "s/__ASM_GENERIC/__LINUX/" include/linux/unaligned.h tools/include/linux/unaligned.h
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