From: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:38:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1212932321.4675.9.camel@earth> (raw)
The following move-it-back-to-generic-place patch fixes the problem.
---
From: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
Subject: fix prctl()'s handling of PR_{SET,GET}_KEEPCAPS
with the commit 3898b1b4ebff8dcfbcf1807e0661585e06c9a91c
prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, {1 | 0}, 0, 0, 0);
always returns -EINVAL for the following configs:
1) CONFIG_SECURITY but without any of CONFIG_SECURITY_* modules;
2) CONFIG_SECURITY + CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX + CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE
both fall back to 'dummy' implementation.
3) CONFIG_SECURITY + CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
for this config it will work when there is a secondary security module.
Here is what happens:
Processing of PR_SET_KEEPCAPS (and a couple of other options) has been
moved from kernel/sys.c::sys_prctl() to security/commoncap.c::cap_task_prctl().
For the aforementioned configs cap_task_prctl() is not called
(moreover, security/commoncap.c is not compiled).
SELinux's implementation of .task_prctl callback resorts to
secondary_ops->task_prctl() which is dummy_task_prctl() (in the
absence of CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES (or any other) as a secondary
module).
So the relevant code should be either moved back to sys_prctl() or
placed in some generic function (not in security/commoncap.c) which is
accessible for all configs.
Move it back to sys_prctl().
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>
----
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 14e9728..5b8e583 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/times.h>
#include <linux/posix-timers.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
+#include <linux/securebits.h>
#include <linux/dcookies.h>
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
@@ -1658,6 +1659,21 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
return error;
switch (option) {
+ case PR_GET_KEEPCAPS:
+ if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS))
+ error = 1;
+ break;
+ case PR_SET_KEEPCAPS:
+ if (arg2 > 1) /* Note, we rely on arg2 being unsigned here */
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ else if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS_LOCKED))
+ error = -EPERM;
+ else if (arg2)
+ current->securebits |= issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
+ else
+ current->securebits &=
+ ~issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
+ break;
case PR_SET_PDEATHSIG:
if (!valid_signal(arg2)) {
error = -EINVAL;
@@ -1744,6 +1760,12 @@ asmlinkage long sys_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
case PR_SET_TSC:
error = SET_TSC_CTL(arg2);
break;
+ case PR_CAPBSET_READ:
+ if (!cap_valid(arg2))
+ error = -EINVAL;
+ else
+ error = !!cap_raised(current->cap_bset, arg2);
+ break;
default:
error = -EINVAL;
break;
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 5edabc7..76f3a76 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -576,12 +576,6 @@ int cap_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
long error = 0;
switch (option) {
- case PR_CAPBSET_READ:
- if (!cap_valid(arg2))
- error = -EINVAL;
- else
- error = !!cap_raised(current->cap_bset, arg2);
- break;
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES
case PR_CAPBSET_DROP:
error = cap_prctl_drop(arg2);
@@ -631,22 +625,6 @@ int cap_task_prctl(int option, unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
#endif /* def CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES */
- case PR_GET_KEEPCAPS:
- if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS))
- error = 1;
- break;
- case PR_SET_KEEPCAPS:
- if (arg2 > 1) /* Note, we rely on arg2 being unsigned here */
- error = -EINVAL;
- else if (issecure(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS_LOCKED))
- error = -EPERM;
- else if (arg2)
- current->securebits |= issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
- else
- current->securebits &=
- ~issecure_mask(SECURE_KEEP_CAPS);
- break;
-
default:
/* No functionality available - continue with default */
return 0;
---
next reply other threads:[~2008-06-08 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-08 13:38 Dmitry Adamushko [this message]
2008-06-08 15:10 ` [ linus-git ] prctl(PR_SET_KEEPCAPS, ...) is broken for some configs, e.g. CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 18:06 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-08 22:34 ` Andrew Morgan
2008-06-08 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-09 17:17 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-10 4:26 ` [PATCH] bugfix: was " Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10 5:21 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 19:12 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-06-11 0:39 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-10 19:14 ` Chris Wright
2008-06-11 0:37 ` Andrew G. Morgan
2008-06-11 14:21 ` Dmitry Adamushko
2008-06-10 16:12 ` Chris Wright
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2008-06-08 12:40 Dmitry Adamushko
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