From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
To: "Christian Göttsche" <cgoettsche@seltendoof.de>, selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Christian Göttsche" <cgzones@googlemail.com>,
"Stephen Smalley" <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>,
"Ondrej Mosnacek" <omosnace@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Thiébaud Weksteen" <tweek@google.com>,
"Bram Bonné" <brambonne@google.com>,
"Eric Suen" <ericsu@linux.microsoft.com>,
"Casey Schaufler" <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
"Canfeng Guo" <guocanfeng@uniontech.com>,
"Takaya Saeki" <takayas@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/14] selinux: more strict policy parsing
Date: Wed, 06 May 2026 19:43:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3fa2020d427f18f9c34c9651f1a5496f@paul-moore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250511173055.406906-3-cgoettsche@seltendoof.de>
On May 11, 2025 =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20G=C3=B6ttsche?= <cgoettsche@seltendoof.de> wrote:
>
> Be more strict during parsing of policies and reject invalid values.
>
> Add some error messages in the case of policy parse failures, to
> enhance debugging, either on a malformed policy or a too strict check.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>
> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
> ---
> v3:
> - incorporate the overflow checks on security classes from the
> previous patch, and permit U16_MAX as class ID
> - minimize the usage of magic values, by using macros or trivial
> helper functions
> v2:
> accept unknown xperm specifiers to support backwards compatibility for
> future ones, suggested by Thiébaud
> ---
> security/selinux/include/security.h | 1 +
> security/selinux/ss/avtab.c | 35 ++++-
> security/selinux/ss/avtab.h | 13 ++
> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 18 +--
> security/selinux/ss/constraint.h | 1 +
> security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 196 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> security/selinux/ss/policydb.h | 23 +++-
> security/selinux/ss/services.c | 6 +-
> 8 files changed, 233 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-)
I fixed the checkpatch.pl warning in pr_warn_once_policyload() but
otherwise this looks good to me, merged into selinux/dev. Thanks!
--
paul-moore.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-06 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-11 17:30 [PATCH v3 01/14] selinux: avoid nontransitive comparison Christian Göttsche
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 02/14] selinux: use u16 for security classes Christian Göttsche
2025-05-13 19:44 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-17 21:53 ` David Laight
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 03/14] selinux: more strict policy parsing Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 14:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-14 14:25 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-05-06 23:43 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 04/14] selinux: check length fields in policies Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 17:26 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 05/14] selinux: validate constraints Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 17:51 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 06/14] selinux: pre-validate conditional expressions Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 17:55 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 07/14] selinux: check type attr map overflows Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 18:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-05-06 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 7/14] " Paul Moore
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 08/14] selinux: reorder policydb_index() Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 18:24 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-05-06 23:43 ` [PATCH v3 8/14] " Paul Moore
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 09/14] selinux: beef up isvalid checks Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 18:59 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 10/14] selinux: validate symbols Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 19:06 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-05-06 23:43 ` Paul Moore
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 11/14] selinux: more strict bounds check Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 19:11 ` Stephen Smalley
2026-05-01 17:15 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 12/14] selinux: check for simple types Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 19:22 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 13/14] selinux: restrict policy strings Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 19:40 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-14 20:02 ` James Carter
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 14/14] selinux: harden MLS context string generation against overflows Christian Göttsche
2025-05-14 19:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2025-05-11 17:30 ` [PATCH v3 00/14] selinux: harden against malformed policies Christian Göttsche
2025-05-13 19:40 ` [PATCH v3 01/14] selinux: avoid nontransitive comparison Stephen Smalley
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