From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Brennan <stephen.s.brennan@oracle.com>,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
selinux@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] proc: Allow pid_revalidate() during LOOKUP_RCU
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:45:43 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b18f4448-d31f-c4a7-ffea-e4cf2587b78b@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201213162941.GG2443@casper.infradead.org>
On 12/13/2020 8:29 AM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 08:22:32AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:02:12PM -0800, Stephen Brennan wrote:
>>>> -void pid_update_inode(struct task_struct *task, struct inode *inode)
>>>> +static int do_pid_update_inode(struct task_struct *task, struct inode *inode,
>>>> + unsigned int flags)
>>> I'm really nitpicking here, but this function only _updates_ the inode
>>> if flags says it should. So I was thinking something like this
>>> (compile tested only).
>>>
>>> I'd really appreocate feedback from someone like Casey or Stephen on
>>> what they need for their security modules.
>> Just so we don't have security module questions confusing things
>> can we please make this a 2 patch series? With the first
>> patch removing security_task_to_inode?
>>
>> The justification for the removal is that all security_task_to_inode
>> appears to care about is the file type bits in inode->i_mode. Something
>> that never changes. Having this in a separate patch would make that
>> logical change easier to verify.
> I don't think that's right, which is why I keep asking Stephen & Casey
> for their thoughts. For example,
>
> * Sets the smack pointer in the inode security blob
> */
> static void smack_task_to_inode(struct task_struct *p, struct inode *inode)
> {
> struct inode_smack *isp = smack_inode(inode);
> struct smack_known *skp = smk_of_task_struct(p);
>
> isp->smk_inode = skp;
> isp->smk_flags |= SMK_INODE_INSTANT;
> }
>
> That seems to do rather more than checking the file type bits.
I'm going to have to bring myself up to speed on the
discussion before I say anything dumb. I'm supposed to
be Not! Working! today. I will get on it as permitted.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-14 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-04 0:02 [PATCH v2] proc: Allow pid_revalidate() during LOOKUP_RCU Stephen Brennan
2020-12-12 20:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-13 14:22 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-13 16:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-13 23:00 ` Paul Moore
2020-12-15 18:09 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-12-15 22:04 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-15 22:53 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-12-16 1:05 ` Stephen Brennan
2020-12-14 18:45 ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2020-12-14 18:15 ` Stephen Brennan
2020-12-13 14:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-12-13 16:32 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-12-14 17:19 ` Stephen Brennan
2020-12-15 21:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
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