[PATCH 3/4] capability: Create a new capability CAP_SIGNED

Vivek Goyal
2013-03-15T20:37:17Z

Create a new capability CAP_SIGNED which can be given to signed executables.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
---
include/uapi/linux/capability.h | 12 +++++++++++-
kernel/cred.c | 7 +++++++
security/commoncap.c | 2 ++
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
index ba478fa..1bbe671 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
@@ -343,7 +343,17 @@ struct vfs_cap_data {

#define CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND 36

-#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_BLOCK_SUSPEND
+/*
+ * Allow certain kernel services with secureboot enabled. One of such
+ * service is sys_kexec() which can be invoked by process only if it
+ * has CAP_SIGNED capability (with secureboot enabled).
+ *
+ * This capability is given by kernel automatically if executable
+ * file is validly signed.
+ */
+#define CAP_SIGNED 37
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP CAP_SIGNED

#define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index e0573a4..f554d1b 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -555,6 +555,12 @@ void revert_creds(const struct cred *old)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(revert_creds);

+static void remove_cap_signed_init_cred(void)
+{
+ cap_lower((&init_cred)->cap_bset, CAP_SIGNED);
+ cap_lower((&init_cred)->cap_permitted, CAP_SIGNED);
+}
+
/*
* initialise the credentials stuff
*/
@@ -563,6 +569,7 @@ void __init cred_init(void)
/* allocate a slab in which we can store credentials */
cred_jar = kmem_cache_create("cred_jar", sizeof(struct cred),
0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ remove_cap_signed_init_cred();
}

/**
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index c44b6fe..4190eb9 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ int cap_capset(struct cred *new,
new->cap_effective = *effective;
new->cap_inheritable = *inheritable;
new->cap_permitted = *permitted;
+ if (cap_raised(old->cap_effective, CAP_SIGNED))
+ cap_raise(new->cap_effective, CAP_SIGNED);
return 0;
}

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