From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [34/35] fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 12:11:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110326161130.GA2233@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8D3258.5090804@schaufler-ca.com>
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:24:56PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 3/25/2011 5:04 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.33-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>
> >
> > commit 24ff6663ccfdaf088dfa7acae489cb11ed4f43c4 upstream.
> >
> > While trying to track down some NFS problems with BTRFS, I kept noticing I was
> > getting -EACCESS for no apparent reason. Eric Paris and printk() helped me
> > figure out that it was SELinux that was giving me grief, with the following
> > denial
> >
> > type=AVC msg=audit(1290013638.413:95): avc: denied { 0x800000 } for pid=1772
> > comm="nfsd" name="" dev=sda1 ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0
> > tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=file
> >
> > Turns out this is because in d_obtain_alias if we can't find an alias we create
> > one and do all the normal instantiation stuff, but we don't do the
> > security_d_instantiate.
> >
> > Usually we are protected from getting a hashed dentry that hasn't yet run
> > security_d_instantiate() by the parent's i_mutex, but obviously this isn't an
> > option there, so in order to deal with the case that a second thread comes in
> > and finds our new dentry before we get to run security_d_instantiate(), we go
> > ahead and call it if we find a dentry already. Eric assures me that this is ok
> > as the code checks to see if the dentry has been initialized already so calling
> > security_d_instantiate() against the same dentry multiple times is ok. With
> > this patch I'm no longer getting errant -EACCESS values.
>
> Not to be a bother, but did you try this with Smack as well as SELinux?
> Smack should be fine with the change, but if you're not going to try
> Smack I need to know.
>
I only tested SELinux since it's on by default in fedora. Thanks,
Josef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-26 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-26 0:05 [00/35] 2.6.33.9-longterm review Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [01/35] smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of mask Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [02/35] [PARISC] fix per-cpu flag problem in the cpu affinity checkers Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [03/35] i2c: Fix typo in instantiating-devices document Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [04/35] mmc: sdio: remember new card RCA when redetecting card Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [05/35] powerpc/kdump: Fix race in kdump shutdown Greg KH
2011-03-30 23:27 ` Paul Gortmaker
2011-04-11 22:57 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [06/35] powerpc: rtas_flash needs to use rtas_data_buf Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [07/35] x86, binutils, xen: Fix another wrong size directive Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [08/35] hwmon: (sht15) Fix integer overflow in humidity calculation Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [09/35] ALSA: hda - VIA: Fix stereo mixer recording no sound issue Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [10/35] ALSA: hda - VIA: Add missing support for VT1718S in A-A path Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [11/35] aio: wake all waiters when destroying ctx Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [12/35] shmem: let shared anonymous be nonlinear again Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [13/35] PCI hotplug: acpiphp: set current_state to D0 in register_slot Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [14/35] xen: set max_pfn_mapped to the last pfn mapped Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [15/35] PCI: return correct value when writing to the "reset" attribute Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [16/35] [PATCH] Revert "intel_idle: PCI quirk to prevent Lenovo Ideapad s10-3 boot hang" Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [17/35] Prevent rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo from spoofing the signal code Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [18/35] ext3: skip orphan cleanup on rocompat fs Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [19/35] procfs: fix /proc/<pid>/maps heap check Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [20/35] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [21/35] fbcon: Bugfix soft cursor detection in Tile Blitting Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [22/35] nfsd41: modify the members value of nfsd4_op_flags Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [23/35] nfsd: wrong index used in inner loop Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [24/35] [media] uvcvideo: Fix uvc_fixup_video_ctrl() format search Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [25/35] [media] uvcvideo: Fix descriptor parsing for video output devices Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [26/35] ehci-hcd: Bug fix: dont set a QHs Halt bit Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:03 ` [27/35] USB: uss720 fixup refcount position Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [28/35] USB: cdc-acm: fix memory corruption / panic Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [29/35] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [30/35] USB: cdc-acm: fix potential null-pointer dereference on disconnect Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [31/35] Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative coordinates Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [32/35] x86: Cleanup highmap after brk is concluded Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [33/35] SUNRPC: Never reuse the socket port after an xs_close() Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [34/35] fs: call security_d_instantiate in d_obtain_alias V2 Greg KH
2011-03-26 0:24 ` Casey Schaufler
2011-03-26 16:11 ` Josef Bacik [this message]
2011-03-26 0:04 ` [35/35] dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected Greg KH
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