Re: [PATCH] security: cap_inode_getsecctx returning garbage

[Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>]

Quoting J. Bruce Fields (bfields@fieldses.org):
> From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
> 
> We shouldn't be returning success from this function without also
> filling in the return values ctx and ctxlen.
> 
> Note currently this doesn't appear to cause bugs since the only
> inode_getsecctx caller I can find is fs/sysfs/inode.c, which only calls
> this if security_inode_setsecurity succeeds.  Assuming
> security_inode_setsecurity is set to cap_inode_setsecurity whenever
> inode_getsecctx is set to cap_inode_getsecctx, this function can never
> actually called.
> 
> So I noticed this only because the server labeled NFS patches add a real
> caller.
> 
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

Thanks, the comment in include/linux/security.h doesn't mention the
return value at all, but based on the other implementations this looks
right.

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com>


> ---
>  security/capability.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Also, assuming this is correct, would you be willing to apply it for
> 3.10?
> 
> If you'd prefer it wait till the next merge window: could you ACK it,
> and let me merge it through the nfsd tree?  (It's a prerequisite for
> the labeled NFS patches that I hope to merge for 3.11.)
> 
> diff --git a/security/capability.c b/security/capability.c
> index d32e16e..32b5157 100644
> --- a/security/capability.c
> +++ b/security/capability.c
> @@ -858,7 +858,7 @@ static int cap_inode_setsecctx(struct dentry *dentry, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen)
>  
>  static int cap_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen)
>  {
> -	return 0;
> +	return -EOPNOTSUPP;
>  }
>  #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
>  static int cap_key_alloc(struct key *key, const struct cred *cred,
> -- 
> 1.7.9.5
>