From: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>, Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>, James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] general protection fault in sock_has_perm Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:34:36 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <fe1be13d-3242-8f60-aa53-71e2548b7858@android.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1516382386.2560.11.camel@tycho.nsa.gov> On 01/19/2018 09:19 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 13:58 -0800, Mark Salyzyn wrote: >> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN >> . . . >> >> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c >> index 8644d864e3c1..95d7c8143373 100644 >> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c >> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c >> @@ -4342,7 +4342,7 @@ static int sock_has_perm(struct sock *sk, u32 >> perms) >> struct common_audit_data ad; >> struct lsm_network_audit net = {0,}; >> >> - if (sksec->sid == SECINITSID_KERNEL) >> + if (!sksec || sksec->sid == SECINITSID_KERNEL) >> return 0; > The patch description says "null check the sk_security, and if the > case, reject the permissions." The patch code instead has it return > 0/success, i.e. permission granted. Which one is correct? <oops> -EACCESS would be advised, yes. THANKS. <please remove my mistake from my permanent record ;-} > > If we > return -EACCES, then we might break userspace; if we return 0, we might > be allowing an operation that should have been denied. Both seem like > losing propositions. if the sk_security is NULL, it is in-effect a form of UAF, so kernel _and_ user space is already 'sick'. I think it is a significantly larger losing proposition to panic the kernel? Reporting -EACCESS (as was proper) is a error propagation way to let user space deal with the erroneous condition. > > Could we instead have selinux_sk_free_security() defer freeing of the > sock security blob to a call_rcu(), like we did for > inode_free_security, or change the caller of it to not free it until > the sock is truly freed? AFAIK the upper issue is the premature closing on an RCU protected object, and the _right_ answer is that its call should have been properly deferred to a synchronization or grace period. Having sk_free_security be deferred by the grace period runs the risk that it is in a race with the proper deletion of a languishing read object in an RCU. It is a bug in the upper layers. My proposal in this KISS stability patch is to make security deal with those bugs gracefully until all those issues are fixed (in ToT). -- Mark
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From: salyzyn@android.com (Mark Salyzyn) To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] general protection fault in sock_has_perm Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:34:36 -0800 [thread overview] Message-ID: <fe1be13d-3242-8f60-aa53-71e2548b7858@android.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1516382386.2560.11.camel@tycho.nsa.gov> On 01/19/2018 09:19 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-18 at 13:58 -0800, Mark Salyzyn wrote: >> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN >> . . . >> >> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c >> index 8644d864e3c1..95d7c8143373 100644 >> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c >> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c >> @@ -4342,7 +4342,7 @@ static int sock_has_perm(struct sock *sk, u32 >> perms) >> struct common_audit_data ad; >> struct lsm_network_audit net = {0,}; >> >> - if (sksec->sid == SECINITSID_KERNEL) >> + if (!sksec || sksec->sid == SECINITSID_KERNEL) >> return 0; > The patch description says "null check the sk_security, and if the > case, reject the permissions." The patch code instead has it return > 0/success, i.e. permission granted. Which one is correct? <oops> -EACCESS would be advised, yes. THANKS. <please remove my mistake from my permanent record ;-} > > If we > return -EACCES, then we might break userspace; if we return 0, we might > be allowing an operation that should have been denied. Both seem like > losing propositions. if the sk_security is NULL, it is in-effect a form of UAF, so kernel _and_ user space is already 'sick'. I think it is a significantly larger losing proposition to panic the kernel? Reporting -EACCESS (as was proper) is a error propagation way to let user space deal with the erroneous condition. > > Could we instead have selinux_sk_free_security() defer freeing of the > sock security blob to a call_rcu(), like we did for > inode_free_security, or change the caller of it to not free it until > the sock is truly freed? AFAIK the upper issue is the premature closing on an RCU protected object, and the _right_ answer is that its call should have been properly deferred to a synchronization or grace period. Having sk_free_security be deferred by the grace period runs the risk that it is in a race with the proper deletion of a languishing read object in an RCU. It is a bug in the upper layers. My proposal in this KISS stability patch is to make security deal with those bugs gracefully until all those issues are fixed (in ToT). -- Mark -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-19 17:34 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-01-18 21:58 [PATCH] general protection fault in sock_has_perm Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-18 21:58 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-18 22:36 ` Paul Moore 2018-01-18 22:36 ` Paul Moore 2018-01-19 15:49 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-19 15:49 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-19 17:06 ` Paul Moore 2018-01-19 17:06 ` Paul Moore 2018-01-19 17:37 ` Casey Schaufler 2018-01-19 17:37 ` Casey Schaufler 2018-01-19 17:46 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-19 17:46 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-19 7:48 ` Greg KH 2018-01-19 7:48 ` Greg KH 2018-01-19 17:19 ` Stephen Smalley 2018-01-19 17:19 ` Stephen Smalley 2018-01-19 17:34 ` Mark Salyzyn [this message] 2018-01-19 17:34 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-19 17:41 ` Stephen Smalley 2018-01-19 17:41 ` Stephen Smalley 2018-01-30 19:00 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-30 19:00 ` Mark Salyzyn 2018-01-30 22:46 ` Greg KH 2018-01-30 22:46 ` Greg KH 2018-01-30 22:46 ` Greg KH 2018-01-31 9:06 ` Paul Moore 2018-01-31 9:06 ` Paul Moore 2018-02-01 8:18 ` Greg KH 2018-02-01 8:18 ` Greg KH
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