Re: Kernel panic at Ubuntu: IMA + Apparmor

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:43:42PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> ssize_t __vfs_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos)
> {
> 	ssize_t ret;
> 
> 	if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_READ))
> 		return -EBADF;
> 	if (!file->f_op->read && !file->f_op->aio_read)
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 	if (unlikely(!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, buf, count)))
> 		return -EFAULT;
> 
> 	if (ret >= 0) {
> 		count = ret;
> 		if (file->f_op->read)
> 			ret = file->f_op->read(file, buf, count, pos);
> 		else
> 			ret = do_sync_read(file, buf, count, pos);
> 	}
> 
> 	return ret;
> }

... which lacks the f_pos wraparound, etc. checks done by rw_verify_area().
IOW, it's one more place to grep through while verifying that ->read()
et.al. do not get called with such arguments.

fanotify probably could be skipped - ask the security circus crowd about
that one, it's their bast^Wbaby.  add_rchar() and inc_syscr()... depends on
whether you want those reads hidden from accounting.