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* [PATCH 5.15 222/279] block: Check ADMIN before NICE for IOPRIO_CLASS_RT
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@ 2021-11-24 11:58 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2021-11-24 11:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, stable, Alistair Delva, Khazhismel Kumykov,
	Bart Van Assche, Serge Hallyn, Jens Axboe, Paul Moore, selinux,
	linux-security-module, kernel-team

From: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>

commit 94c4b4fd25e6c3763941bdec3ad54f2204afa992 upstream.

Booting to Android userspace on 5.14 or newer triggers the following
SELinux denial:

avc: denied { sys_nice } for comm="init" capability=23
     scontext=u:r:init:s0 tcontext=u:r:init:s0 tclass=capability
     permissive=0

Init is PID 0 running as root, so it already has CAP_SYS_ADMIN. For
better compatibility with older SEPolicy, check ADMIN before NICE.

Fixes: 9d3a39a5f1e4 ("block: grant IOPRIO_CLASS_RT to CAP_SYS_NICE")
Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211115181655.3608659-1-adelva@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 block/ioprio.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/block/ioprio.c
+++ b/block/ioprio.c
@@ -69,7 +69,14 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
 
 	switch (class) {
 		case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
-			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+			/*
+			 * Originally this only checked for CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
+			 * which was implicitly allowed for pid 0 by security
+			 * modules such as SELinux. Make sure we check
+			 * CAP_SYS_ADMIN first to avoid a denial/avc for
+			 * possibly missing CAP_SYS_NICE permission.
+			 */
+			if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE))
 				return -EPERM;
 			fallthrough;
 			/* rt has prio field too */



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