linux/security/smack
Paul Moore b10b9c342f lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe
Commit 4ff09db1b7 ("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 <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-11-04 23:25:30 -04:00
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Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
smack_access.c smack: Replace kzalloc + strncpy with kstrndup 2022-08-01 11:26:09 -07:00
smack_lsm.c lsm: make security_socket_getpeersec_stream() sockptr_t safe 2022-11-04 23:25:30 -04:00
smack_netfilter.c smack: remove duplicated hook function 2021-10-12 08:23:52 -07:00
smack.h smack: cleanup obsolete mount option flags 2022-09-27 10:33:03 -07:00
smackfs.c Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling. 2022-06-04 19:00:05 -07:00