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| author | Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com> | 2025-06-20 07:03:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-06-23 12:41:17 +0200 |
| commit | cbe4134ea4bc493239786220bd69cb8a13493190 (patch) | |
| tree | 32d1967bb871d7bf30675ee4e17c3b2ce5c3ab4e /include/linux | |
| parent | 6a68d28066b6257b8d09b1daa91db43d56dbb6ad (diff) | |
fs: export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() and fix secretmem LSM bypass
Export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() to allow KVM guest_memfd to create
anonymous inodes with proper security context. This replaces the current
pattern of calling alloc_anon_inode() followed by
inode_init_security_anon() for creating security context manually.
This change also fixes a security regression in secretmem where the
S_PRIVATE flag was not cleared after alloc_anon_inode(), causing
LSM/SELinux checks to be bypassed for secretmem file descriptors.
As guest_memfd currently resides in the KVM module, we need to export this
symbol for use outside the core kernel. In the future, guest_memfd might be
moved to core-mm, at which point the symbols no longer would have to be
exported. When/if that happens is still unclear.
Fixes: 2bfe15c52612 ("mm: create security context for memfd_secret inodes")
Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg <shivankg@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250620070328.803704-3-shivankg@amd.com
Acked-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index 4ec77da65f14..3a8e643c4279 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3606,6 +3606,8 @@ extern int simple_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, extern const struct address_space_operations ram_aops; extern int always_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *); extern struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *); +struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode(struct super_block *sb, const char *name, + const struct inode *context_inode); extern int simple_nosetlease(struct file *, int, struct file_lease **, void **); extern const struct dentry_operations simple_dentry_operations; |