From: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@linux.microsoft.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.microsoft.com>,
tusharsu@linux.microsoft.com, sashal@kernel.org,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
SElinux list <selinux@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SELinux: Measure state and hash of policy using IMA
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 07:35:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4eec93aa-2c32-8422-f62b-b101a0d0028a@linux.microsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEjxPJ5Kok-TBfS=XQ+NUC5tuaZRkyLBOawG4UDky51_bsMnGw@mail.gmail.com>
On 8/24/20 7:00 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 9:00 PM Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
>
>> +int security_read_policy_kernel(struct selinux_state *state,
>> + void **data, size_t *len)
>> +{
>> + int rc;
>> +
>> + rc = security_read_policy_len(state, len);
>> + if (rc)
>> + return rc;
>> +
>> + *data = vmalloc(*len);
>> + if (!*data)
>> + return -ENOMEM;
>>
>> + return security_read_selinux_policy(state, data, len);
>> }
>
> See the discussion here:
> https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20200824113015.1375857-1-omosnace@redhat.com/T/#t
>
> In order for this to be safe, you need to ensure that all callers of
> security_read_policy_kernel() have taken fsi->mutex in selinuxfs and
> any use of security_read_policy_len() occurs while holding the mutex.
> Otherwise, the length can change between security_read_policy_len()
> and security_read_selinux_policy() if policy is reloaded.
>
Thanks. I'll make this change.
-lakshmi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-24 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-22 1:00 [PATCH] SELinux: Measure state and hash of policy using IMA Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-08-24 14:00 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-08-24 14:35 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian [this message]
2020-08-24 18:13 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-08-24 19:29 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-08-24 20:01 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-08-24 21:29 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-08-24 22:18 ` Paul Moore
2020-08-25 20:49 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-08-26 12:51 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-08-31 14:47 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-08-31 16:39 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-09-07 21:38 Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-09-07 22:32 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-09-08 4:44 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-09-08 11:58 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-09-08 16:01 ` Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
2020-09-08 12:28 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-09-08 12:35 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-09-08 13:03 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
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