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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_next into next</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T22:26:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-10T22:26:14+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>netlabel: Replace protocol/NetLabel linking with refrerence counts</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul.moore@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</published>
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NetLabel has always had a list of backpointers in the CIPSO DOI definition
structure which pointed to the NetLabel LSM domain mapping structures which
referenced the CIPSO DOI struct.  The rationale for this was that when an
administrator removed a CIPSO DOI from the system all of the associated
NetLabel LSM domain mappings should be removed as well; a list of
backpointers made this a simple operation.

Unfortunately, while the backpointers did make the removal easier they were
a bit of a mess from an implementation point of view which was making
further development difficult.  Since the removal of a CIPSO DOI is a
realtively rare event it seems to make sense to remove this backpointer
list as the optimization was hurting us more then it was helping.  However,
we still need to be able to track when a CIPSO DOI definition is being used
so replace the backpointer list with a reference count.  In order to
preserve the current functionality of removing the associated LSM domain
mappings when a CIPSO DOI is removed we walk the LSM domain mapping table,
removing the relevant entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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NetLabel has always had a list of backpointers in the CIPSO DOI definition
structure which pointed to the NetLabel LSM domain mapping structures which
referenced the CIPSO DOI struct.  The rationale for this was that when an
administrator removed a CIPSO DOI from the system all of the associated
NetLabel LSM domain mappings should be removed as well; a list of
backpointers made this a simple operation.

Unfortunately, while the backpointers did make the removal easier they were
a bit of a mess from an implementation point of view which was making
further development difficult.  Since the removal of a CIPSO DOI is a
realtively rare event it seems to make sense to remove this backpointer
list as the optimization was hurting us more then it was helping.  However,
we still need to be able to track when a CIPSO DOI definition is being used
so replace the backpointer list with a reference count.  In order to
preserve the current functionality of removing the associated LSM domain
mappings when a CIPSO DOI is removed we walk the LSM domain mapping table,
removing the relevant entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>smack: Fix missing calls to netlbl_skbuff_err()</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul.moore@hp.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</published>
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Smack needs to call netlbl_skbuff_err() to let NetLabel do the necessary
protocol specific error handling.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
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Smack needs to call netlbl_skbuff_err() to let NetLabel do the necessary
protocol specific error handling.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' into next</title>
<updated>2008-08-28T00:47:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-28T00:47:34+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable()</title>
<updated>2008-08-14T12:59:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-08-14T10:37:28+00:00</published>
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Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags
the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to
change its own flags in a different way at the same time.

__capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t-&gt;flags.  This
patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set
PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried.

This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two:

 (1) security_ptrace_may_access().  This passes judgement on whether one
     process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and
     PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process.
     current is the parent.

 (2) security_ptrace_traceme().  This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only,
     and takes only a pointer to the parent process.  current is the child.

     In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether
     the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail.
     This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV.

Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have
been changed to calls to capable().

Of the places that were using __capable():

 (1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a
     process.  All of these now use has_capability().

 (2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see
     whether the parent was allowed to trace any process.  As mentioned above,
     these have been split.  For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now
     used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used.

 (3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable().

 (4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just
     after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been
     switched and capable() is used instead.

 (5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to
     receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating.

 (6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process,
     whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged.

I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan &lt;morgan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Fix the setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() as it could corrupt the flags
the target process if that is not the current process and it is trying to
change its own flags in a different way at the same time.

__capable() is using neither atomic ops nor locking to protect t-&gt;flags.  This
patch removes __capable() and introduces has_capability() that doesn't set
PF_SUPERPRIV on the process being queried.

This patch further splits security_ptrace() in two:

 (1) security_ptrace_may_access().  This passes judgement on whether one
     process may access another only (PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH for ptrace() and
     PTRACE_MODE_READ for /proc), and takes a pointer to the child process.
     current is the parent.

 (2) security_ptrace_traceme().  This passes judgement on PTRACE_TRACEME only,
     and takes only a pointer to the parent process.  current is the child.

     In Smack and commoncap, this uses has_capability() to determine whether
     the parent will be permitted to use PTRACE_ATTACH if normal checks fail.
     This does not set PF_SUPERPRIV.

Two of the instances of __capable() actually only act on current, and so have
been changed to calls to capable().

Of the places that were using __capable():

 (1) The OOM killer calls __capable() thrice when weighing the killability of a
     process.  All of these now use has_capability().

 (2) cap_ptrace() and smack_ptrace() were using __capable() to check to see
     whether the parent was allowed to trace any process.  As mentioned above,
     these have been split.  For PTRACE_ATTACH and /proc, capable() is now
     used, and for PTRACE_TRACEME, has_capability() is used.

 (3) cap_safe_nice() only ever saw current, so now uses capable().

 (4) smack_setprocattr() rejected accesses to tasks other than current just
     after calling __capable(), so the order of these two tests have been
     switched and capable() is used instead.

 (5) In smack_file_send_sigiotask(), we need to allow privileged processes to
     receive SIGIO on files they're manipulating.

 (6) In smack_task_wait(), we let a process wait for a privileged process,
     whether or not the process doing the waiting is privileged.

I've tested this with the LTP SELinux and syscalls testscripts.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan &lt;morgan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>smack: limit privilege by label</title>
<updated>2008-08-05T00:55:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-30T22:37:11+00:00</published>
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There have been a number of requests to make the Smack LSM
enforce MAC even in the face of privilege, either capability
based or superuser based. This is not universally desired,
however, so it seems desirable to make it optional. Further,
at least one legacy OS implemented a scheme whereby only
processes running with one particular label could be exempt
from MAC. This patch supports these three cases.

If /smack/onlycap is empty (unset or null-string) privilege
is enforced in the normal way.

If /smack/onlycap contains a label only processes running with
that label may be MAC exempt.

If the label in /smack/onlycap is the star label ("*") the
semantics of the star label combine with the privilege
restrictions to prevent any violations of MAC, even in the
presence of privilege.

Again, this will be independent of the privilege scheme.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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There have been a number of requests to make the Smack LSM
enforce MAC even in the face of privilege, either capability
based or superuser based. This is not universally desired,
however, so it seems desirable to make it optional. Further,
at least one legacy OS implemented a scheme whereby only
processes running with one particular label could be exempt
from MAC. This patch supports these three cases.

If /smack/onlycap is empty (unset or null-string) privilege
is enforced in the normal way.

If /smack/onlycap contains a label only processes running with
that label may be MAC exempt.

If the label in /smack/onlycap is the star label ("*") the
semantics of the star label combine with the privilege
restrictions to prevent any violations of MAC, even in the
presence of privilege.

Again, this will be independent of the privilege scheme.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] pass MAY_OPEN to vfs_permission() explicitly</title>
<updated>2008-07-27T00:53:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-17T13:37:02+00:00</published>
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... and get rid of the last "let's deduce mask from nameidata-&gt;flags"
bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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... and get rid of the last "let's deduce mask from nameidata-&gt;flags"
bit.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>security: remove register_security hook</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T05:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-07-10T08:02:07+00:00</published>
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The register security hook is no longer required, as the capability
module is always registered.  LSMs wishing to stack capability as
a secondary module should do so explicitly.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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The register security hook is no longer required, as the capability
module is always registered.  LSMs wishing to stack capability as
a secondary module should do so explicitly.

Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Security: split proc ptrace checking into read vs. attach</title>
<updated>2008-07-14T05:01:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-19T12:32:49+00:00</published>
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Enable security modules to distinguish reading of process state via
proc from full ptrace access by renaming ptrace_may_attach to
ptrace_may_access and adding a mode argument indicating whether only
read access or full attach access is requested.  This allows security
modules to permit access to reading process state without granting
full ptrace access.  The base DAC/capability checking remains unchanged.

Read access to /proc/pid/mem continues to apply a full ptrace attach
check since check_mem_permission() already requires the current task
to already be ptracing the target.  The other ptrace checks within
proc for elements like environ, maps, and fds are changed to pass the
read mode instead of attach.

In the SELinux case, we model such reading of process state as a
reading of a proc file labeled with the target process' label.  This
enables SELinux policy to permit such reading of process state without
permitting control or manipulation of the target process, as there are
a number of cases where programs probe for such information via proc
but do not need to be able to control the target (e.g. procps,
lsof, PolicyKit, ConsoleKit).  At present we have to choose between
allowing full ptrace in policy (more permissive than required/desired)
or breaking functionality (or in some cases just silencing the denials
via dontaudit rules but this can hide genuine attacks).

This version of the patch incorporates comments from Casey Schaufler
(change/replace existing ptrace_may_attach interface, pass access
mode), and Chris Wright (provide greater consistency in the checking).

Note that like their predecessors __ptrace_may_attach and
ptrace_may_attach, the __ptrace_may_access and ptrace_may_access
interfaces use different return value conventions from each other (0
or -errno vs. 1 or 0).  I retained this difference to avoid any
changes to the caller logic but made the difference clearer by
changing the latter interface to return a bool rather than an int and
by adding a comment about it to ptrace.h for any future callers.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Enable security modules to distinguish reading of process state via
proc from full ptrace access by renaming ptrace_may_attach to
ptrace_may_access and adding a mode argument indicating whether only
read access or full attach access is requested.  This allows security
modules to permit access to reading process state without granting
full ptrace access.  The base DAC/capability checking remains unchanged.

Read access to /proc/pid/mem continues to apply a full ptrace attach
check since check_mem_permission() already requires the current task
to already be ptracing the target.  The other ptrace checks within
proc for elements like environ, maps, and fds are changed to pass the
read mode instead of attach.

In the SELinux case, we model such reading of process state as a
reading of a proc file labeled with the target process' label.  This
enables SELinux policy to permit such reading of process state without
permitting control or manipulation of the target process, as there are
a number of cases where programs probe for such information via proc
but do not need to be able to control the target (e.g. procps,
lsof, PolicyKit, ConsoleKit).  At present we have to choose between
allowing full ptrace in policy (more permissive than required/desired)
or breaking functionality (or in some cases just silencing the denials
via dontaudit rules but this can hide genuine attacks).

This version of the patch incorporates comments from Casey Schaufler
(change/replace existing ptrace_may_attach interface, pass access
mode), and Chris Wright (provide greater consistency in the checking).

Note that like their predecessors __ptrace_may_attach and
ptrace_may_attach, the __ptrace_may_access and ptrace_may_access
interfaces use different return value conventions from each other (0
or -errno vs. 1 or 0).  I retained this difference to avoid any
changes to the caller logic but made the difference clearer by
changing the latter interface to return a bool rather than an int and
by adding a comment about it to ptrace.h for any future callers.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@sous-sol.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Smack: fuse mount hang fix</title>
<updated>2008-06-04T15:50:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-06-02T17:04:32+00:00</published>
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The d_instantiate hook for Smack can hang on the root inode of a
filesystem if the file system code has not really done all the set-up.
Fuse is known to encounter this problem.

This change detects an attempt to instantiate a root inode and addresses
it early in the processing, before any attempt is made to do something
that might hang.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The d_instantiate hook for Smack can hang on the root inode of a
filesystem if the file system code has not really done all the set-up.
Fuse is known to encounter this problem.

This change detects an attempt to instantiate a root inode and addresses
it early in the processing, before any attempt is made to do something
that might hang.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino &lt;lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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