From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev,
Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18 43/52] selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:54:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261017155106.225127394@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261017155104.830766652@linuxfoundation.org>
6.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
[ Upstream commit a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965 ]
Currently there can only be a single open of /sys/fs/selinux/policy at
any time. This allows any process to block any other process from
reading the kernel policy. The original motivation seems to have been
a mix of preventing an inconsistent view of the policy size and
preventing userspace from allocating kernel memory without bound, but
this is arguably equally bad. Eliminate the policy_opened flag and
shrink the critical section that the policy mutex is held. While we
are making changes here, drop a couple of extraneous BUG_ONs.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20100726193414.19538.64028.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 27 ++++-----------------------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index e821519205978..9ad11246ad1f4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ struct selinux_fs_info {
int *bool_pending_values;
struct dentry *class_dir;
unsigned long last_class_ino;
- bool policy_opened;
struct dentry *policycap_dir;
unsigned long last_ino;
struct super_block *sb;
@@ -340,44 +339,31 @@ struct policy_load_memory {
static int sel_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
- struct selinux_fs_info *fsi = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
struct policy_load_memory *plm = NULL;
int rc;
- BUG_ON(filp->private_data);
-
- mutex_lock(&selinux_state.policy_mutex);
-
rc = avc_has_perm(current_sid(), SECINITSID_SECURITY,
SECCLASS_SECURITY, SECURITY__READ_POLICY, NULL);
if (rc)
- goto err;
-
- rc = -EBUSY;
- if (fsi->policy_opened)
- goto err;
+ return rc;
- rc = -ENOMEM;
plm = kzalloc(sizeof(*plm), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!plm)
- goto err;
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ mutex_lock(&selinux_state.policy_mutex);
rc = security_read_policy(&plm->data, &plm->len);
if (rc)
goto err;
-
if ((size_t)i_size_read(inode) != plm->len) {
inode_lock(inode);
i_size_write(inode, plm->len);
inode_unlock(inode);
}
-
- fsi->policy_opened = 1;
+ mutex_unlock(&selinux_state.policy_mutex);
filp->private_data = plm;
- mutex_unlock(&selinux_state.policy_mutex);
-
return 0;
err:
mutex_unlock(&selinux_state.policy_mutex);
@@ -390,13 +376,8 @@ static int sel_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
static int sel_release_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
{
- struct selinux_fs_info *fsi = inode->i_sb->s_fs_info;
struct policy_load_memory *plm = filp->private_data;
- BUG_ON(!plm);
-
- fsi->policy_opened = 0;
-
vfree(plm->data);
kfree(plm);
--
2.53.0
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 18/52] net: xilinx: axienet: Free outstanding DMA buffers on dmaengine stop Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 19/52] net: mana: reserve RX buffer headroom to fix forwarding performance Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 20/52] riscv: patch: Avoid early phys_to_page() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 21/52] riscv: patch: fix handling of bpf-jit execmem addresses Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 24/52] scsi: ufs: core: Move an assignment in ufshcd_mcq_process_cqe() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 25/52] scsi: ufs: core: Add debug log for MCQ command timeout Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 26/52] scsi: ufs: core: Add a comment block above ufshcd_mcq_compl_all_cqes_lock() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 27/52] scsi: ufs: core: Avoid unsafe MMIO reads in ufshcd_mcq_compl_all_cqes_lock() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 28/52] drm/xe/i2c: cancel the client work on remove Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 29/52] cifs: fix time_last_write stamp placement in setattr/truncate paths Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 30/52] fat: stop reading directory entries past the end-of-directory marker Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 31/52] ima: Access decompressed kernel module to verify appended signature Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 33/52] ice: remove legacy Rx and construct SKB Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 34/52] ice: drop page splitting and recycling Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 36/52] ice: fix rxq info registering in mbuf packets Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 38/52] xfs: factor out xfs_attr3_node_entry_remove Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 39/52] xfs: factor out xfs_attr3_leaf_init Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 40/52] xfs: close crash window in attr dabtree inactivation Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 41/52] mm/damon/core: cancel damos_walk() before damon_ctx->kdamond reset Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 46/52] ice: fix broken Rx on VFs Greg Kroah-Hartman
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2026-10-17 15:54 ` [PATCH 6.18 49/52] io_uring/kbuf: dont charge provided buffer " Greg Kroah-Hartman
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