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<title>vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs.</title>
<updated>2017-04-04T21:21:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
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<published>2015-06-29T19:42:03+00:00</published>
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commit 22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a upstream.

Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: we don't have super_block::s_iflags; use
 file_system_type::fs_flags instead]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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commit 22f6b4d34fcf039c63a94e7670e0da24f8575a5a upstream.

Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.16: we don't have super_block::s_iflags; use
 file_system_type::fs_flags instead]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security</title>
<updated>2014-06-10T17:05:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-10T17:05:36+00:00</published>
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Pull security layer updates from Serge Hallyn:
 "This is a merge of James Morris' security-next tree from 3.14 to
  yesterday's master, plus four patches from Paul Moore which are in
  linux-next, plus one patch from Mimi"

* 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security:
  ima: audit log files opened with O_DIRECT flag
  selinux: conditionally reschedule in hashtab_insert while loading selinux policy
  selinux: conditionally reschedule in mls_convert_context while loading selinux policy
  selinux: reject setexeccon() on MNT_NOSUID applications with -EACCES
  selinux:  Report permissive mode in avc: denied messages.
  Warning in scanf string typing
  Smack: Label cgroup files for systemd
  Smack: Verify read access on file open - v3
  security: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  Smack: bidirectional UDS connect check
  Smack: Correctly remove SMACK64TRANSMUTE attribute
  SMACK: Fix handling value==NULL in post setxattr
  bugfix patch for SMACK
  Smack: adds smackfs/ptrace interface
  Smack: unify all ptrace accesses in the smack
  Smack: fix the subject/object order in smack_ptrace_traceme()
  Minor improvement of 'smack_sb_kern_mount'
  smack: fix key permission verification
  KEYS: Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h
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Pull security layer updates from Serge Hallyn:
 "This is a merge of James Morris' security-next tree from 3.14 to
  yesterday's master, plus four patches from Paul Moore which are in
  linux-next, plus one patch from Mimi"

* 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security:
  ima: audit log files opened with O_DIRECT flag
  selinux: conditionally reschedule in hashtab_insert while loading selinux policy
  selinux: conditionally reschedule in mls_convert_context while loading selinux policy
  selinux: reject setexeccon() on MNT_NOSUID applications with -EACCES
  selinux:  Report permissive mode in avc: denied messages.
  Warning in scanf string typing
  Smack: Label cgroup files for systemd
  Smack: Verify read access on file open - v3
  security: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table
  Smack: bidirectional UDS connect check
  Smack: Correctly remove SMACK64TRANSMUTE attribute
  SMACK: Fix handling value==NULL in post setxattr
  bugfix patch for SMACK
  Smack: adds smackfs/ptrace interface
  Smack: unify all ptrace accesses in the smack
  Smack: fix the subject/object order in smack_ptrace_traceme()
  Minor improvement of 'smack_sb_kern_mount'
  smack: fix key permission verification
  KEYS: Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next</title>
<updated>2014-04-14T01:42:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>james.l.morris@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-14T01:42:49+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>vfs: add cross-rename</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T15:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2014-04-01T15:08:43+00:00</published>
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If flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE then exchange source and destination files.
There's no restriction on the type of the files; e.g. a directory can be
exchanged with a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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If flags contain RENAME_EXCHANGE then exchange source and destination files.
There's no restriction on the type of the files; e.g. a directory can be
exchanged with a symlink.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>security: add flags to rename hooks</title>
<updated>2014-04-01T15:08:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-01T15:08:43+00:00</published>
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Add flags to security_path_rename() and security_inode_rename() hooks.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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Add flags to security_path_rename() and security_inode_rename() hooks.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<title>KEYS: Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h</title>
<updated>2014-03-14T17:44:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-14T17:44:49+00:00</published>
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Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h as the perm
parameter of security_key_permission() is in terms of them - and not the
permissions mask flags used in key-&gt;perm.

Whilst we're at it:

 (1) Rename them to be KEY_NEED_xxx rather than KEY_xxx to avoid collisions
     with symbols in uapi/linux/input.h.

 (2) Don't use key_perm_t for a mask of required permissions, but rather limit
     it to the permissions mask attached to the key and arguments related
     directly to that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Kasatkin &lt;d.kasatkin@samsung.com&gt;
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Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h as the perm
parameter of security_key_permission() is in terms of them - and not the
permissions mask flags used in key-&gt;perm.

Whilst we're at it:

 (1) Rename them to be KEY_NEED_xxx rather than KEY_xxx to avoid collisions
     with symbols in uapi/linux/input.h.

 (2) Don't use key_perm_t for a mask of required permissions, but rather limit
     it to the permissions mask attached to the key and arguments related
     directly to that.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Dmitry Kasatkin &lt;d.kasatkin@samsung.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>selinux: add gfp argument to security_xfrm_policy_alloc and fix callers</title>
<updated>2014-03-10T07:30:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nikolay Aleksandrov</name>
<email>nikolay@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-07T11:44:19+00:00</published>
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security_xfrm_policy_alloc can be called in atomic context so the
allocation should be done with GFP_ATOMIC. Add an argument to let the
callers choose the appropriate way. In order to do so a gfp argument
needs to be added to the method xfrm_policy_alloc_security in struct
security_operations and to the internal function
selinux_xfrm_alloc_user. After that switch to GFP_ATOMIC in the atomic
callers and leave GFP_KERNEL as before for the rest.
The path that needed the gfp argument addition is:
security_xfrm_policy_alloc -&gt; security_ops.xfrm_policy_alloc_security -&gt;
all users of xfrm_policy_alloc_security (e.g. selinux_xfrm_policy_alloc) -&gt;
selinux_xfrm_alloc_user (here the allocation used to be GFP_KERNEL only)

Now adding a gfp argument to selinux_xfrm_alloc_user requires us to also
add it to security_context_to_sid which is used inside and prior to this
patch did only GFP_KERNEL allocation. So add gfp argument to
security_context_to_sid and adjust all of its callers as well.

CC: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
CC: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
CC: Fan Du &lt;fan.du@windriver.com&gt;
CC: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
CC: LSM list &lt;linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: SELinux list &lt;selinux@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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security_xfrm_policy_alloc can be called in atomic context so the
allocation should be done with GFP_ATOMIC. Add an argument to let the
callers choose the appropriate way. In order to do so a gfp argument
needs to be added to the method xfrm_policy_alloc_security in struct
security_operations and to the internal function
selinux_xfrm_alloc_user. After that switch to GFP_ATOMIC in the atomic
callers and leave GFP_KERNEL as before for the rest.
The path that needed the gfp argument addition is:
security_xfrm_policy_alloc -&gt; security_ops.xfrm_policy_alloc_security -&gt;
all users of xfrm_policy_alloc_security (e.g. selinux_xfrm_policy_alloc) -&gt;
selinux_xfrm_alloc_user (here the allocation used to be GFP_KERNEL only)

Now adding a gfp argument to selinux_xfrm_alloc_user requires us to also
add it to security_context_to_sid which is used inside and prior to this
patch did only GFP_KERNEL allocation. So add gfp argument to
security_context_to_sid and adjust all of its callers as well.

CC: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
CC: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
CC: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
CC: Fan Du &lt;fan.du@windriver.com&gt;
CC: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
CC: LSM list &lt;linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org&gt;
CC: SELinux list &lt;selinux@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov &lt;nikolay@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert &lt;steffen.klassert@secunet.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/selinux into ra-next</title>
<updated>2013-10-22T11:26:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Morris</name>
<email>james.l.morris@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-22T11:26:41+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/selinux</title>
<updated>2013-09-18T17:52:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>pmoore@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-09-18T17:52:20+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	security/selinux/hooks.c

Pull Eric's existing SELinux tree as there are a number of patches in
there that are not yet upstream.  There was some minor fixup needed to
resolve a conflict in security/selinux/hooks.c:selinux_set_mnt_opts()
between the labeled NFS patches and Eric's security_fs_use()
simplification patch.
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Conflicts:
	security/selinux/hooks.c

Pull Eric's existing SELinux tree as there are a number of patches in
there that are not yet upstream.  There was some minor fixup needed to
resolve a conflict in security/selinux/hooks.c:selinux_set_mnt_opts()
between the labeled NFS patches and Eric's security_fs_use()
simplification patch.
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<entry>
<title>lsm: split the xfrm_state_alloc_security() hook implementation</title>
<updated>2013-07-25T17:01:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>pmoore@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-23T21:38:38+00:00</published>
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The xfrm_state_alloc_security() LSM hook implementation is really a
multiplexed hook with two different behaviors depending on the
arguments passed to it by the caller.  This patch splits the LSM hook
implementation into two new hook implementations, which match the
LSM hooks in the rest of the kernel:

 * xfrm_state_alloc
 * xfrm_state_alloc_acquire

Also included in this patch are the necessary changes to the SELinux
code; no other LSMs are affected.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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The xfrm_state_alloc_security() LSM hook implementation is really a
multiplexed hook with two different behaviors depending on the
arguments passed to it by the caller.  This patch splits the LSM hook
implementation into two new hook implementations, which match the
LSM hooks in the rest of the kernel:

 * xfrm_state_alloc
 * xfrm_state_alloc_acquire

Also included in this patch are the necessary changes to the SELinux
code; no other LSMs are affected.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;pmoore@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
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