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[v3,15/15] selinux: delay sid population for rootfs till init is complete

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Victor Kamensky (kamensky) March 11, 2018, 3:08 a.m. UTC
On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Stephen Smalley wrote:

> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 20:33 +0000, Taras Kondratiuk wrote:
>> From: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
>>
>> With initramfs cpio format that supports extended attributes
>> we need to skip sid population on sys_lsetxattr call from
>> initramfs for rootfs if security server is not initialized yet.
>>
>> Otherwise callback in selinux_inode_post_setxattr will try to
>> translate give security.selinux label into sid context and since
>> security server is not available yet inode will receive default
>> sid (typically kernel_t). Note that in the same time proper
>> label will be stored in inode xattrs. Later, since inode sid
>> would be already populated system will never look back at
>> actual xattrs. But if we skip sid population for rootfs and
>> we have policy that direct use of xattrs for rootfs, proper
>> sid will be filled in from extended attributes one node is
>> accessed and server is initialized.
>>
>> Note new DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT super block flag is introduced
>> to only mark rootfs for such behavior. For other types of
>> tmpfs original logic is still used.
>
> (cc selinux maintainers)
>
> Wondering if we shouldn't just do this always, for all filesystem
> types.

Ok, I think it makes sense. The one that do not support xattrs
will not reach selinux_inode_post_setxattr anyway. And try
to cache sid while !ss_initialized is not good idea for any
filesystem types.

> Also, I think this should likely also be done in
> selinux_inode_setsecurity() for consistency.

I am not sure that I follow selinux_inode_setsecurity suggestion.
selinux_inode_setsecurity is about permission check. And
selinux_inode_post_setxattr deals with processing and setting
side effects if xattr was "security.selinux", it does not
matter what happens in selinux_inode_setsecurity if it
returns access_ok, LSM will still call selinux_inode_post_setxattr
and we would need to check and not produce any sid caching
side effects if !ss_initialized.

Sitll keeping logic in selinux_inode_post_setxattr, checked
that the following with much simple code works too:

>From bfc54e4805f3059671417ff2cda1266bc68e18f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:06:08 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] selinux: delay sid population in setxattr till policy
  loaded

With initramfs cpio format that supports extended attributes
we need to skip sid population on sys_lsetxattr call from
initramfs for rootfs if security server is not initialized yet.

Otherwise callback in selinux_inode_post_setxattr will try to
translate give security.selinux label into sid context and since
security server is not available yet inode will receive default
sid (typically kernel_t). Note that in the same time proper
label will be stored in inode xattrs. Later, since inode sid
would be already populated system will never look back at
actual xattrs. But if we skip sid population for rootfs and
we have policy that direct use of xattrs for rootfs, proper
sid will be filled in from extended attributes one node is
accessed and server is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
---
  security/selinux/hooks.c | 4 ++++
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Stephen Smalley March 20, 2018, 4:30 p.m. UTC | #1
On 03/10/2018 10:08 PM, Victor Kamensky wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 20:33 +0000, Taras Kondratiuk wrote:
>>> From: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
>>>
>>> With initramfs cpio format that supports extended attributes
>>> we need to skip sid population on sys_lsetxattr call from
>>> initramfs for rootfs if security server is not initialized yet.
>>>
>>> Otherwise callback in selinux_inode_post_setxattr will try to
>>> translate give security.selinux label into sid context and since
>>> security server is not available yet inode will receive default
>>> sid (typically kernel_t). Note that in the same time proper
>>> label will be stored in inode xattrs. Later, since inode sid
>>> would be already populated system will never look back at
>>> actual xattrs. But if we skip sid population for rootfs and
>>> we have policy that direct use of xattrs for rootfs, proper
>>> sid will be filled in from extended attributes one node is
>>> accessed and server is initialized.
>>>
>>> Note new DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT super block flag is introduced
>>> to only mark rootfs for such behavior. For other types of
>>> tmpfs original logic is still used.
>>
>> (cc selinux maintainers)
>>
>> Wondering if we shouldn't just do this always, for all filesystem
>> types.
> 
> Ok, I think it makes sense. The one that do not support xattrs
> will not reach selinux_inode_post_setxattr anyway. And try
> to cache sid while !ss_initialized is not good idea for any
> filesystem types.
> 
>> Also, I think this should likely also be done in
>> selinux_inode_setsecurity() for consistency.
> 
> I am not sure that I follow selinux_inode_setsecurity suggestion.
> selinux_inode_setsecurity is about permission check. And
> selinux_inode_post_setxattr deals with processing and setting
> side effects if xattr was "security.selinux", it does not
> matter what happens in selinux_inode_setsecurity if it
> returns access_ok, LSM will still call selinux_inode_post_setxattr
> and we would need to check and not produce any sid caching
> side effects if !ss_initialized.

selinux_inode_setsecurity is the vfs fallback for setting security
attributes when the filesystem/inode does not support setxattr itself,
and is also used by kernfs. 
So you need to update both selinux_inode_post_setxattr and selinux_inode_setsecurity
in the same way.

> 
> Sitll keeping logic in selinux_inode_post_setxattr, checked
> that the following with much simple code works too:
> 
>> From bfc54e4805f3059671417ff2cda1266bc68e18f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:06:08 -0800
> Subject: [PATCH 2/2] selinux: delay sid population in setxattr till policy
>  loaded
> 
> With initramfs cpio format that supports extended attributes
> we need to skip sid population on sys_lsetxattr call from
> initramfs for rootfs if security server is not initialized yet.
> 
> Otherwise callback in selinux_inode_post_setxattr will try to
> translate give security.selinux label into sid context and since
> security server is not available yet inode will receive default
> sid (typically kernel_t). Note that in the same time proper
> label will be stored in inode xattrs. Later, since inode sid
> would be already populated system will never look back at
> actual xattrs. But if we skip sid population for rootfs and
> we have policy that direct use of xattrs for rootfs, proper
> sid will be filled in from extended attributes one node is
> accessed and server is initialized.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <kamensky@cisco.com>
> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 31303ed..4c13759 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -3197,6 +3197,10 @@ static void selinux_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
>          return;
>      }
> 
> +        if (!ss_initialized) {
> +                return;
> +        }
> +
>      rc = security_context_to_sid_force(value, size, &newsid);
>      if (rc) {
>          printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux:  unable to map context to SID"

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diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 31303ed..4c13759 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -3197,6 +3197,10 @@  static void selinux_inode_post_setxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
  		return;
  	}

+        if (!ss_initialized) {
+                return;
+        }
+
  	rc = security_context_to_sid_force(value, size, &newsid);
  	if (rc) {
  		printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux:  unable to map context to SID"