linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: new_inode_smack() bogosities
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 22:13:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120104221335.GF23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)

1) in smack_sb_kern_mount()
        isp = inode->i_security;
        if (isp == NULL)
                inode->i_security = new_inode_smack(sp->smk_root);
        else   
                isp->smk_inode = sp->smk_root;
looks very fishy.  How in hell had that inode managed to get created
in the first place without going through smack_inode_alloc_security()?
Is that about mounting an fs instance with in-core superblock that
is older than the call of smack_init()?  That shouldn't be possible due
to initcall ordering, but if that's the case, just what would happen when
we step on *other* inodes on the same fs?  There's a bunch of places where
smack assumes that ->i_security is never NULL...  And if that's really
impossible, WTF is that new_inode_smack() doing there?

2) again in smack_sb_kern_mount()
        spin_lock(&sp->smk_sblock);
        if (sp->smk_initialized != 0) {
                spin_unlock(&sp->smk_sblock);
                return 0;
        }
        sp->smk_initialized = 1;
        spin_unlock(&sp->smk_sblock);
For one thing, security_sb_kern_mount() is serialized by sb->s_umount.
For another, if it wouldn't be... this code wouldn't be able to prevent
a race.  Sure, only one of them will proceed to initialize the sucker.
And another may cheerfully return before the work is actually done...
In any case, it *is* serialized on per-superblock basis.

3) in smk_fill_super(), we have
        root_inode = sb->s_root->d_inode;
        root_inode->i_security = new_inode_smack(smack_known_floor.smk_known);
Again, huh?  This should be called after smack_init() had been done; hell, 
you explicitly say so in the comments:
 * Do not register smackfs if Smack wasn't enabled
 * on boot. We can not put this method normally under the
 * smack_init() code path since the security subsystem get
 * initialized before the vfs caches.
Sounds like a misspelled assignment to ->smk_inode to me (and a leak, while
we are at it)...

                 reply	other threads:[~2012-01-04 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: [no followups] expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20120104221335.GF23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk \
    --to=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
    --cc=casey@schaufler-ca.com \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).