[PATCH v16 07/20] security: add new securityfs delete function

Fan Wu
2024-03-28T20:17:31Z

When deleting a directory in the security file system, the existing
securityfs_remove requires the directory to be empty, otherwise
it will do nothing. This leads to a potential risk that the security
file system might be in an unclean state when the intended deletion
did not happen.

This commit introduces a new function securityfs_recursive_remove
to recursively delete a directory without leaving an unclean state.

Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@linux.microsoft.com>

---
v1-v8:
+ Not present

v9:
+ Introduced

v10:
+ No changes

v11:
+ Fix code style issues

v12:
+ No changes

v13:
+ No changes

v14:
+ No changes

v15:
+ No changes

v16:
+ No changes
---
include/linux/security.h | 1 +
security/inode.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 14fff542f2e3..f35af7b6cfba 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -2089,6 +2089,7 @@ struct dentry *securityfs_create_symlink(const char *name,
const char *target,
const struct inode_operations *iops);
extern void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry);
+extern void securityfs_recursive_remove(struct dentry *dentry);

#else /* CONFIG_SECURITYFS */

diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c
index 9e7cde913667..f21847badb7d 100644
--- a/security/inode.c
+++ b/security/inode.c
@@ -313,6 +313,31 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(securityfs_remove);

+static void remove_one(struct dentry *victim)
+{
+ simple_release_fs(&mount, &mount_count);
+}
+
+/**
+ * securityfs_recursive_remove - recursively removes a file or directory
+ *
+ * @dentry: a pointer to a the dentry of the file or directory to be removed.
+ *
+ * This function recursively removes a file or directory in securityfs that was
+ * previously created with a call to another securityfs function (like
+ * securityfs_create_file() or variants thereof.)
+ */
+void securityfs_recursive_remove(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dentry))
+ return;
+
+ simple_pin_fs(&fs_type, &mount, &mount_count);
+ simple_recursive_removal(dentry, remove_one);
+ simple_release_fs(&mount, &mount_count);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(securityfs_recursive_remove);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY
static struct dentry *lsm_dentry;
static ssize_t lsm_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
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