linux.git/mm/shmem.c, branch v3.13

security: shmem: implement kernel private shmem inodes

2013-12-02T11:24:19+00:00

We have a problem where the big_key key storage implementation uses a
shmem backed inode to hold the key contents.  Because of this detail of
implementation LSM checks are being done between processes trying to
read the keys and the tmpfs backed inode.  The LSM checks are already
being handled on the key interface level and should not be enforced at
the inode level (since the inode is an implementation detail, not a
part of the security model)

This patch implements a new function shmem_kernel_file_setup() which
returns the equivalent to shmem_file_setup() only the underlying inode
has S_PRIVATE set.  This means that all LSM checks for the inode in
question are skipped.  It should only be used for kernel internal
operations where the inode is not exposed to userspace without proper
LSM checking.  It is possible that some other users of
shmem_file_setup() should use the new interface, but this has not been
explored.

Reproducing this bug is a little bit difficult.  The steps I used on
Fedora are:

 (1) Turn off selinux enforcing:

	setenforce 0

 (2) Create a huge key

	k=`dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=1 | keyctl padd big_key test-key @s`

 (3) Access the key in another context:

	runcon system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 keyctl print $k >/dev/null

 (4) Examine the audit logs:

	ausearch -m AVC -i --subject httpd_t | audit2allow

If the last command's output includes a line that looks like:

	allow httpd_t user_tmpfs_t:file { open read };

There was an inode check between httpd and the tmpfs filesystem.  With
this patch no such denial will be seen.  (NOTE! you should clear your
audit log if you have tested for this previously)

(Please return you box to enforcing)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: Hugh Dickins 
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org

initmpfs: make rootfs use tmpfs when CONFIG_TMPFS enabled

2013-09-11T22:59:37+00:00

Conditionally call the appropriate fs_init function and fill_super
functions.  Add a use once guard to shmem_init() to simply succeed on a
second call.

(Note that IS_ENABLED() is a compile time constant so dead code
elimination removes unused function calls when CONFIG_TMPFS is disabled.)

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley 
Cc: Jeff Layton 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib/radix-tree.c: make radix_tree_node_alloc() work correctly within interrupt

2013-09-11T22:59:36+00:00

With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is
one such possible user), the following race can happen:

radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
  radix_tree_node_alloc()
    if (rtp->nr) {
      ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];

...
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
  radix_tree_node_alloc()
    if (rtp->nr) {
      ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];

And we give out one radix tree node twice.  That clearly results in radix
tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which
two users of radix tree race.

We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh
radix tree nodes when in interrupt.  Using preloading when in interrupt
doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and
we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely
on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload().
in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed
gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for
all preload users.

Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in
radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting.  Again,
preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would
happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes.  However,
some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert()
to succeed.  To avoid unexpected effects for these users,
radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting
and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users
which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are
prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

shm_mnt is as longterm as it gets, TYVM...

2013-09-04T02:50:27+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb

2013-08-24T16:10:17+00:00

dynamic_dname() is both too much and too little for those - the
output may be well in excess of 64 bytes dynamic_dname() assumes
to be enough (thanks to ashmem feeding really long names to
shmem_file_setup()) and vsnprintf() is an overkill for those
guys.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

tmpfs: fix SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE regression

2013-08-04T18:40:17+00:00

Commit 46a1c2c7ae53 ("vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules") broke the
tmpfs SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE implementation, because vfs_setpos() converts
the carefully prepared -ENXIO to -EINVAL.  Other filesystems avoid it in
error cases: do the same in tmpfs.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jie Liu 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2013-07-03T21:04:58+00:00

Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
  with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e.  security labels are inherited
  from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).

  The rest of the changes are maintenance"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
  tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
  tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client->driver
  evm: audit integrity metadata failures
  integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
  evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
  maintainers:  add Dmitry Kasatkin
  Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
  Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
  Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
  Smack: Improve access check performance
  Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
  tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
  maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
  tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
  tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
  security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
  apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
  apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
  apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
  apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
  ...

vfs: export lseek_execute() to modules

2013-07-03T12:23:27+00:00

For those file systems(btrfs/ext4/ocfs2/tmpfs) that support
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE functions, we end up handling the similar
matter in lseek_execute() to update the current file offset
to the desired offset if it is valid, ceph also does the
simliar things at ceph_llseek().

To reduce the duplications, this patch make lseek_execute()
public accessible so that we can call it directly from the
underlying file systems.

Thanks Dave Chinner for this suggestion.

[AV: call it vfs_setpos(), don't bring the removed 'inode' argument back]

v2->v1:
- Add kernel-doc comments for lseek_execute()
- Call lseek_execute() in ceph->llseek()

Signed-off-by: Jie Liu 
Cc: Dave Chinner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Chris Mason 
Cc: Josef Bacik 
Cc: Ben Myers 
Cc: Ted Tso 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Mark Fasheh 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Cc: Sage Weil 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

[O_TMPFILE] it's still short a few helpers, but infrastructure should be OK now...

2013-06-29T08:57:10+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs

2013-06-20T11:47:49+00:00

Included in the EVM hmac calculation is the i_mode.  Any changes to
the i_mode need to be reflected in the hmac.  shmem_mknod() currently
calls generic_acl_init(), which modifies the i_mode, after calling
security_inode_init_security().  This patch reverses the order in
which they are called.

Reported-by: Sven Vermeulen 
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins