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<title>fs: port xattr to mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:23+00:00</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T17:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T17:47:48+00:00</published>
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improve the error handling in the device cgroup such that memory
   allocation failures when updating the access policy do not
   potentially alter the policy.

 - Some minor fixes to reiserfs to ensure that it properly releases
   LSM-related xattr values.

 - Update the security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook to take
   sockptr_t values.

   Previously the net/BPF folks updated the getsockopt code in the
   network stack to leverage the sockptr_t type to make it easier to
   pass both kernel and __user pointers, but unfortunately when they did
   so they didn't convert the LSM hook.

   While there was/is no immediate risk by not converting the LSM hook,
   it seems like this is a mistake waiting to happen so this patch
   proactively does the LSM hook conversion.

 - Convert vfs_getxattr_alloc() to return an int instead of a ssize_t
   and cleanup the callers. Internally the function was never going to
   return anything larger than an int and the callers were doing some
   very odd things casting the return value; this patch fixes all that
   and helps bring a bit of sanity to vfs_getxattr_alloc() and its
   callers.

 - More verbose, and helpful, LSM debug output when the system is booted
   with "lsm.debug" on the command line. There are examples in the
   commit description, but the quick summary is that this patch provides
   better information about which LSMs are enabled and the ordering in
   which they are processed.

 - General comment and kernel-doc fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lsm: Fix description of fs_context_parse_param
  lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting
  lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook
  reiserfs: Add missing calls to reiserfs_security_free()
  lsm,fs: fix vfs_getxattr_alloc() return type and caller error paths
  device_cgroup: Roll back to original exceptions after copy failure
  LSM: Better reporting of actual LSMs at boot
  lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe
  audit: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
  lsm: remove obsoleted comments for security hooks
  fs: edit a comment made in bad taste
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Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:

 - Improve the error handling in the device cgroup such that memory
   allocation failures when updating the access policy do not
   potentially alter the policy.

 - Some minor fixes to reiserfs to ensure that it properly releases
   LSM-related xattr values.

 - Update the security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook to take
   sockptr_t values.

   Previously the net/BPF folks updated the getsockopt code in the
   network stack to leverage the sockptr_t type to make it easier to
   pass both kernel and __user pointers, but unfortunately when they did
   so they didn't convert the LSM hook.

   While there was/is no immediate risk by not converting the LSM hook,
   it seems like this is a mistake waiting to happen so this patch
   proactively does the LSM hook conversion.

 - Convert vfs_getxattr_alloc() to return an int instead of a ssize_t
   and cleanup the callers. Internally the function was never going to
   return anything larger than an int and the callers were doing some
   very odd things casting the return value; this patch fixes all that
   and helps bring a bit of sanity to vfs_getxattr_alloc() and its
   callers.

 - More verbose, and helpful, LSM debug output when the system is booted
   with "lsm.debug" on the command line. There are examples in the
   commit description, but the quick summary is that this patch provides
   better information about which LSMs are enabled and the ordering in
   which they are processed.

 - General comment and kernel-doc fixes and cleanups.

* tag 'lsm-pr-20221212' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm:
  lsm: Fix description of fs_context_parse_param
  lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting
  lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook
  reiserfs: Add missing calls to reiserfs_security_free()
  lsm,fs: fix vfs_getxattr_alloc() return type and caller error paths
  device_cgroup: Roll back to original exceptions after copy failure
  LSM: Better reporting of actual LSMs at boot
  lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe
  audit: Fix some kernel-doc warnings
  lsm: remove obsoleted comments for security hooks
  fs: edit a comment made in bad taste
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'landlock-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T17:14:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T17:14:50+00:00</published>
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Pull landlock updates from Mickaël Salaün:
 "This adds file truncation support to Landlock, contributed by Günther
  Noack. As described by Günther [1], the goal of these patches is to
  work towards a more complete coverage of file system operations that
  are restrictable with Landlock.

  The known set of currently unsupported file system operations in
  Landlock is described at [2]. Out of the operations listed there,
  truncate is the only one that modifies file contents, so these patches
  should make it possible to prevent the direct modification of file
  contents with Landlock.

  The new LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE access right covers both the
  truncate(2) and ftruncate(2) families of syscalls, as well as open(2)
  with the O_TRUNC flag. This includes usages of creat() in the case
  where existing regular files are overwritten.

  Additionally, this introduces a new Landlock security blob associated
  with opened files, to track the available Landlock access rights at
  the time of opening the file. This is in line with Unix's general
  approach of checking the read and write permissions during open(), and
  associating this previously checked authorization with the opened
  file. An ongoing patch documents this use case [3].

  In order to treat truncate(2) and ftruncate(2) calls differently in an
  LSM hook, we split apart the existing security_path_truncate hook into
  security_path_truncate (for truncation by path) and
  security_file_truncate (for truncation of previously opened files)"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018182216.301684-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.1/userspace-api/landlock.html#filesystem-flags [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209193813.972012-1-mic@digikod.net [3]

* tag 'landlock-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux:
  samples/landlock: Document best-effort approach for LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER
  landlock: Document Landlock's file truncation support
  samples/landlock: Extend sample tool to support LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
  selftests/landlock: Test ftruncate on FDs created by memfd_create(2)
  selftests/landlock: Test FD passing from restricted to unrestricted processes
  selftests/landlock: Locally define __maybe_unused
  selftests/landlock: Test open() and ftruncate() in multiple scenarios
  selftests/landlock: Test file truncation support
  landlock: Support file truncation
  landlock: Document init_layer_masks() helper
  landlock: Refactor check_access_path_dual() into is_access_to_paths_allowed()
  security: Create file_truncate hook from path_truncate hook
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Pull landlock updates from Mickaël Salaün:
 "This adds file truncation support to Landlock, contributed by Günther
  Noack. As described by Günther [1], the goal of these patches is to
  work towards a more complete coverage of file system operations that
  are restrictable with Landlock.

  The known set of currently unsupported file system operations in
  Landlock is described at [2]. Out of the operations listed there,
  truncate is the only one that modifies file contents, so these patches
  should make it possible to prevent the direct modification of file
  contents with Landlock.

  The new LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE access right covers both the
  truncate(2) and ftruncate(2) families of syscalls, as well as open(2)
  with the O_TRUNC flag. This includes usages of creat() in the case
  where existing regular files are overwritten.

  Additionally, this introduces a new Landlock security blob associated
  with opened files, to track the available Landlock access rights at
  the time of opening the file. This is in line with Unix's general
  approach of checking the read and write permissions during open(), and
  associating this previously checked authorization with the opened
  file. An ongoing patch documents this use case [3].

  In order to treat truncate(2) and ftruncate(2) calls differently in an
  LSM hook, we split apart the existing security_path_truncate hook into
  security_path_truncate (for truncation by path) and
  security_file_truncate (for truncation of previously opened files)"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018182216.301684-1-gnoack3000@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.1/userspace-api/landlock.html#filesystem-flags [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221209193813.972012-1-mic@digikod.net [3]

* tag 'landlock-6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux:
  samples/landlock: Document best-effort approach for LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_REFER
  landlock: Document Landlock's file truncation support
  samples/landlock: Extend sample tool to support LANDLOCK_ACCESS_FS_TRUNCATE
  selftests/landlock: Test ftruncate on FDs created by memfd_create(2)
  selftests/landlock: Test FD passing from restricted to unrestricted processes
  selftests/landlock: Locally define __maybe_unused
  selftests/landlock: Test open() and ftruncate() in multiple scenarios
  selftests/landlock: Test file truncation support
  landlock: Support file truncation
  landlock: Document init_layer_masks() helper
  landlock: Refactor check_access_path_dual() into is_access_to_paths_allowed()
  security: Create file_truncate hook from path_truncate hook
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: Fix description of fs_context_parse_param</title>
<updated>2022-12-09T17:22:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roberto Sassu</name>
<email>roberto.sassu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-09T08:29:35+00:00</published>
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The fs_context_parse_param hook already has a description, which seems the
right one according to the code.

Fixes: 8eb687bc8069 ("lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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The fs_context_parse_param hook already has a description, which seems the
right one according to the code.

Fixes: 8eb687bc8069 ("lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting</title>
<updated>2022-12-07T00:16:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roberto Sassu</name>
<email>roberto.sassu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-28T14:42:40+00:00</published>
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Ensure that for non-void LSM hooks there is a description of the return
values.

Also, replace spaces with tab for indentation, remove empty lines between
the hook description and the list of parameters, adjust semicolons and add
the period at the end of the parameter description.

Finally, move the description of gfp parameter of the
xfrm_policy_alloc_security hook together with the others.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
[PM: /replaces./replaced./]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Ensure that for non-void LSM hooks there is a description of the return
values.

Also, replace spaces with tab for indentation, remove empty lines between
the hook description and the list of parameters, adjust semicolons and add
the period at the end of the parameter description.

Finally, move the description of gfp parameter of the
xfrm_policy_alloc_security hook together with the others.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
[PM: /replaces./replaced./]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook</title>
<updated>2022-12-06T22:11:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roberto Sassu</name>
<email>roberto.sassu@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-28T14:42:39+00:00</published>
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include/linux/lsm_hooks.h reports the result of the LSM infrastructure to
the callers, not what LSMs should return to the LSM infrastructure.

Clarify that and add that if all LSMs return a positive value
__vm_enough_memory() will be called with cap_sys_admin set. If at least one
LSM returns 0 or negative, it will be called with cap_sys_admin cleared.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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include/linux/lsm_hooks.h reports the result of the LSM infrastructure to
the callers, not what LSMs should return to the LSM infrastructure.

Clarify that and add that if all LSMs return a positive value
__vm_enough_memory() will be called with cap_sys_admin set. If at least one
LSM returns 0 or negative, it will be called with cap_sys_admin cleared.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu &lt;roberto.sassu@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe</title>
<updated>2022-11-05T03:25:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul@paul-moore.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T16:31:21+00:00</published>
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Commit 4ff09db1b79b ("bpf: net: Change sk_getsockopt() to take the
sockptr_t argument") made it possible to call sk_getsockopt()
with both user and kernel address space buffers through the use of
the sockptr_t type.  Unfortunately at the time of conversion the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook was written to only
accept userspace buffers, and in a desire to avoid having to change
the LSM hook the commit author simply passed the sockptr_t's
userspace buffer pointer.  Since the only sk_getsockopt() callers
at the time of conversion which used kernel sockptr_t buffers did
not allow SO_PEERSEC, and hence the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() hook, this was acceptable but
also very fragile as future changes presented the possibility of
silently passing kernel space pointers to the LSM hook.

There are several ways to protect against this, including careful
code review of future commits, but since relying on code review to
catch bugs is a recipe for disaster and the upstream eBPF maintainer
is "strongly against defensive programming", this patch updates the
LSM hook, and all of the implementations to support sockptr_t and
safely handle both user and kernel space buffers.

Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Commit 4ff09db1b79b ("bpf: net: Change sk_getsockopt() to take the
sockptr_t argument") made it possible to call sk_getsockopt()
with both user and kernel address space buffers through the use of
the sockptr_t type.  Unfortunately at the time of conversion the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() LSM hook was written to only
accept userspace buffers, and in a desire to avoid having to change
the LSM hook the commit author simply passed the sockptr_t's
userspace buffer pointer.  Since the only sk_getsockopt() callers
at the time of conversion which used kernel sockptr_t buffers did
not allow SO_PEERSEC, and hence the
security_socket_getpeersec_stream() hook, this was acceptable but
also very fragile as future changes presented the possibility of
silently passing kernel space pointers to the LSM hook.

There are several ways to protect against this, including careful
code review of future commits, but since relying on code review to
catch bugs is a recipe for disaster and the upstream eBPF maintainer
is "strongly against defensive programming", this patch updates the
LSM hook, and all of the implementations to support sockptr_t and
safely handle both user and kernel space buffers.

Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>lsm: remove obsoleted comments for security hooks</title>
<updated>2022-10-25T23:57:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gaosheng Cui</name>
<email>cuigaosheng1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-25T12:57:44+00:00</published>
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Remove the following obsoleted comments for security hooks:

1. sb_copy_data, the hook function has been removed since
commit 5b4002391153 ("LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method").

2. sb_parse_opts_str, the hook function has been removed since
commit 757cbe597fe8 ("LSM: new method: -&gt;sb_add_mnt_opt()").

They are obsoleted comments, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subj line tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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Remove the following obsoleted comments for security hooks:

1. sb_copy_data, the hook function has been removed since
commit 5b4002391153 ("LSM: turn sb_eat_lsm_opts() into a method").

2. sb_parse_opts_str, the hook function has been removed since
commit 757cbe597fe8 ("LSM: new method: -&gt;sb_add_mnt_opt()").

They are obsoleted comments, so remove them.

Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui &lt;cuigaosheng1@huawei.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: subj line tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>security: add get, remove and set acl hook</title>
<updated>2022-10-20T08:13:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-22T15:17:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=72b3897e78107c54e3e5a98bdb316dafcd818f97'/>
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

So far posix acls were passed as a void blob to the security and
integrity modules. Some of them like evm then proceed to interpret the
void pointer and convert it into the kernel internal struct posix acl
representation to perform their integrity checking magic. This is
obviously pretty problematic as that requires knowledge that only the
vfs is guaranteed to have and has lead to various bugs. Add a proper
security hook for setting posix acls and pass down the posix acls in
their appropriate vfs format instead of hacking it through a void
pointer stored in the uapi format.

In the next patches we implement the hooks for the few security modules
that do actually have restrictions on posix acls.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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The current way of setting and getting posix acls through the generic
xattr interface is error prone and type unsafe. The vfs needs to
interpret and fixup posix acls before storing or reporting it to
userspace. Various hacks exist to make this work. The code is hard to
understand and difficult to maintain in it's current form. Instead of
making this work by hacking posix acls through xattr handlers we are
building a dedicated posix acl api around the get and set inode
operations. This removes a lot of hackiness and makes the codepaths
easier to maintain. A lot of background can be found in [1].

So far posix acls were passed as a void blob to the security and
integrity modules. Some of them like evm then proceed to interpret the
void pointer and convert it into the kernel internal struct posix acl
representation to perform their integrity checking magic. This is
obviously pretty problematic as that requires knowledge that only the
vfs is guaranteed to have and has lead to various bugs. Add a proper
security hook for setting posix acls and pass down the posix acls in
their appropriate vfs format instead of hacking it through a void
pointer stored in the uapi format.

In the next patches we implement the hooks for the few security modules
that do actually have restrictions on posix acls.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220801145520.1532837-1-brauner@kernel.org [1]
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>security: Create file_truncate hook from path_truncate hook</title>
<updated>2022-10-19T07:01:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Günther Noack</name>
<email>gnoack3000@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-18T18:22:06+00:00</published>
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Like path_truncate, the file_truncate hook also restricts file
truncation, but is called in the cases where truncation is attempted
on an already-opened file.

This is required in a subsequent commit to handle ftruncate()
operations differently to truncate() operations.

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack &lt;gnoack3000@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018182216.301684-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
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Like path_truncate, the file_truncate hook also restricts file
truncation, but is called in the cases where truncation is attempted
on an already-opened file.

This is required in a subsequent commit to handle ftruncate()
operations differently to truncate() operations.

Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Acked-by: John Johansen &lt;john.johansen@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Günther Noack &lt;gnoack3000@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018182216.301684-2-gnoack3000@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
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