Re: [PATCH] crypto: properly label AF_ALG socket

[Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>]

On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 08:41:09 PM Milan Broz wrote:
> Th AF_ALG socket was missing a security label (e.g. SELinux)
> which means that socket was in "unlabeled" state.
> 
> This was recently demonstrated in the cryptsetup package
> (cryptsetup v1.6.5 and later.)
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115120
> 
> This patch clones the sock's label from the parent sock
> and resolves the issue (similar to AF_BLUETOOTH protocol family).
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>
> ---
>  crypto/af_alg.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

Thanks Milan, this patch looks good to me.  Crypto folks, assuming no 
objections, could you try to push this patch this week so it hits 3.16 proper 
(assuming no more -rc releases)?  Without this patch the latest versions of 
cryptsetup could fail on a SELinux system leaving the system unable to boot 
with SELinux in enforcing mode.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

> diff --git a/crypto/af_alg.c b/crypto/af_alg.c
> index 966f893..6a3ad80 100644
> --- a/crypto/af_alg.c
> +++ b/crypto/af_alg.c
> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>  #include <linux/module.h>
>  #include <linux/net.h>
>  #include <linux/rwsem.h>
> +#include <linux/security.h>
> 
>  struct alg_type_list {
>  	const struct af_alg_type *type;
> @@ -243,6 +244,7 @@ int af_alg_accept(struct sock *sk, struct socket
> *newsock)
> 
>  	sock_init_data(newsock, sk2);
>  	sock_graft(sk2, newsock);
> +	security_sk_clone(sk, sk2);
> 
>  	err = type->accept(ask->private, sk2);
>  	if (err) {

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paul moore
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