From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
selinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@android.com, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] block: Check ADMIN before NICE for IOPRIO_CLASS_RT
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 10:40:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <da032e9f-0b95-f517-6e3c-647668fd823f@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211115181655.3608659-1-adelva@google.com>
On 11/15/21 10:16 AM, Alistair Delva wrote:
> Booting to Android userspace on 5.14 or newer triggers the following
> SELinux denial:
>
> avc: denied { sys_nice } for comm="init" capability=23
> scontext=u:r:init:s0 tcontext=u:r:init:s0 tclass=capability
> permissive=0
>
> Init is PID 0 running as root, so it already has CAP_SYS_ADMIN. For
> better compatibility with older SEPolicy, check ADMIN before NICE.
>
> Fixes: 9d3a39a5f1e4 ("block: grant IOPRIO_CLASS_RT to CAP_SYS_NICE")
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Delva <adelva@google.com>
> Cc: Khazhismel Kumykov <khazhy@google.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
> Cc: selinux@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: kernel-team@android.com
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.14+
> ---
> v2: added comment requested by Jens
> block/ioprio.c | 9 ++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/block/ioprio.c b/block/ioprio.c
> index 0e4ff245f2bf..313c14a70bbd 100644
> --- a/block/ioprio.c
> +++ b/block/ioprio.c
> @@ -69,7 +69,14 @@ int ioprio_check_cap(int ioprio)
>
> switch (class) {
> case IOPRIO_CLASS_RT:
> - if (!capable(CAP_SYS_NICE) && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + /*
> + * Originally this only checked for CAP_SYS_ADMIN,
> + * which was implicitly allowed for pid 0 by security
> + * modules such as SELinux. Make sure we check
> + * CAP_SYS_ADMIN first to avoid a denial/avc for
> + * possibly missing CAP_SYS_NICE permission.
> + */
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) && !capable(CAP_SYS_NICE))
> return -EPERM;
> fallthrough;
> /* rt has prio field too */
>
Are there any other SELinux policies (Fedora?) that need to be verified?
Anyway:
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-15 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-15 18:16 [PATCH v2] block: Check ADMIN before NICE for IOPRIO_CLASS_RT Alistair Delva
2021-11-15 18:40 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2021-11-15 19:26 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-11-15 21:37 ` Jens Axboe
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