From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Moore Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 5/5] selinux: introduce kdbus access controls Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:39:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4505777.oeeaHvkZzq@sifl> References: <20151007230615.7823.74519.stgit@localhost> <20151007230848.7823.68726.stgit@localhost> <5617D7D6.1090608@tycho.nsa.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5617D7D6.1090608@tycho.nsa.gov> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: Stephen Smalley Cc: Paul Osmialowski , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-audit@redhat.com, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Friday, October 09, 2015 11:05:58 AM Stephen Smalley wrote: > On 10/07/2015 07:08 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > +static int selinux_kdbus_init_inode(struct inode *inode, > > + const struct cred *creds) > > +{ > > + struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security; > > + u32 sid = cred_sid(creds); > > + > > + /* XXX - this is very simple, e.g. no transitions, no special object > > + * class, etc. since this inode is basically an IPC socket ... > > + * however, is this too simple? do we want transitions? if we > > + * do, we should do the transition in kdbus_node_init() and not > > + * here so that endpoint is labeled correctly and not just this > > + * inode */ > > + > > + isec->inode = inode; > > + isec->task_sid = sid; > > + isec->sid = sid; > > + isec->sclass = SECCLASS_FILE; > > + isec->initialized = 1; > > These are used for files exposed in the filesystem namespace, unlike > sockets (sockfs can't be mounted by userspace, and the socket objects > themselves have their own class, so there is no ambiguity). Currently > the only such files that are labeled with the same SID as the associated > task are /proc files. So if we label the kdbusfs files with the same > SID, then you can't allow read/write to kdbusfs nodes owned by another > task without also exposing its /proc/pid files in the same manner. > Doubt we want that. Probably should compute a transition from the task > SID and the kdbusfs SID. Okay, that was one of my main concerns; your suggestion makes sense to me. I'm also thinking that is we do a file transition using the task label and the kdbusfs superblock label we should limit it to just the inode label and not the kdbus endpoint as I suggested in the comment above (the bit about kdbus_node_init()), yes? -- paul moore security @ redhat