Re: [PATCH 2/3] ima: Ensure lock is held when setting iint pointer in inode security blob

[Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com>]

On Wed, 2024-10-09 at 11:41 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 12:57 PM Roberto Sassu
> <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com> wrote:
> > 
> > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> > 
> > IMA stores a pointer of the ima_iint_cache structure, containing integrity
> > metadata, in the inode security blob. However, check and assignment of this
> > pointer is not atomic, and it might happen that two tasks both see that the
> > iint pointer is NULL and try to set it, causing a memory leak.
> > 
> > Ensure that the iint check and assignment is guarded, by adding a lockdep
> > assertion in ima_inode_get().
> > 
> > Consequently, guard the remaining ima_inode_get() calls, in
> > ima_post_create_tmpfile() and ima_post_path_mknod(), to avoid the lockdep
> > warnings.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
> > ---
> >  security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c |  5 +++++
> >  security/integrity/ima/ima_main.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
> > index c176fd0faae7..fe676ccec32f 100644
> > --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
> > +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_iint.c
> > @@ -87,8 +87,13 @@ static void ima_iint_free(struct ima_iint_cache *iint)
> >   */
> >  struct ima_iint_cache *ima_inode_get(struct inode *inode)
> >  {
> > +       struct ima_iint_cache_lock *iint_lock;
> >         struct ima_iint_cache *iint;
> > 
> > +       iint_lock = ima_inode_security(inode->i_security);
> > +       if (iint_lock)
> > +               lockdep_assert_held(&iint_lock->mutex);
> > +
> >         iint = ima_iint_find(inode);
> >         if (iint)
> >                 return iint;
> 
> Can you avoid the ima_iint_find() call here and just do the following?
> 
>   /* not sure if you need to check !iint_lock or not? */
>   if (!iint_lock)
>     return NULL;
>   iint = iint_lock->iint;
>   if (!iint)
>     return NULL;

Yes, I also like it much more.

Thanks

Roberto