From: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/2] selinux: Propagate RCU walk status from 'security_inode_follow_link()'
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 13:13:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120131303.GB21500@willie-the-truck> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1b03e3f-2906-d022-3578-e443a5ebb1a0@tycho.nsa.gov>
Hi Stephen,
Thanks for the quick review.
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 01:46:37PM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 11/19/19 1:40 PM, Will Deacon wrote:
> > 'selinux_inode_follow_link()' can be called as part of an RCU path walk,
> > and is passed a 'bool rcu' parameter to indicate whether or not it is
> > being called from within an RCU read-side critical section.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this knowledge is not propagated further and, instead,
> > 'avc_has_perm()' unconditionally passes a flags argument of '0' to both
> > 'avc_has_perm_noaudit()' and 'avc_audit()' which may block.
> >
> > Introduce 'avc_has_perm_flags()' which can be used safely from within an
> > RCU read-side critical section.
>
> Please see e46e01eebbbcf2ff6d28ee7cae9f117e9d1572c8 ("selinux: stop passing
> MAY_NOT_BLOCK to the AVC upon follow_link").
Ha, not sure how I missed that -- my patch is almost a direct revert,
including the name 'avs_has_perm_flags()'! My only concern is that the
commit message for e46e01eebbbc asserts that the only use of MAY_NOT_BLOCK
is in slow_avc_audit(), but AVC_NONBLOCKING is used more widely than that.
For example:
selinux_inode_follow_link()
-> avc_has_perm()
-> avc_has_perm_noaudit()
-> avc_denied()
-> avc_update_node()
where we return early if AVC_NONBLOCKING is set, except flags are always
zero on this path.
Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-20 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-19 18:40 [RFC PATCH 0/2] Avoid blocking in selinux inode callbacks on RCU walk Will Deacon
2019-11-19 18:40 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] selinux: Don't call avc_compute_av() from RCU path walk Will Deacon
2019-11-19 18:59 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-11-20 13:12 ` Will Deacon
2019-11-20 15:28 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-11-20 19:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2019-11-20 19:13 ` Will Deacon
2019-11-19 18:40 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] selinux: Propagate RCU walk status from 'security_inode_follow_link()' Will Deacon
2019-11-19 18:46 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-11-20 13:13 ` Will Deacon [this message]
2019-11-20 13:31 ` Stephen Smalley
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