Re: [PATCH 00/23] Removal of binary sysctl support

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Wed Nov 18 2009 - 13:44:30 EST


Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> There has been a gradual transition from the assumption that the table ends with
>> !ctl_name to the assumption that procname == NULL. There is no sysctl entry
>> with a valid ctl_name without a valid procname.
>
> I see. Then, please add below one to your patchset.

I have been looking at this and in the sysctl tree I am now going through
the vfs for all of the the operations on /proc/sys. I believe that means
we can completely remove the sysctl special case in tomoyo. Like I have
in the patch below.

Will that work?

Eric

diff --git a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
index 3f93bb9..8a00ade 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
@@ -85,75 +85,6 @@ static int tomoyo_bprm_check_security(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
return tomoyo_check_open_permission(domain, &bprm->file->f_path, 1);
}

-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
-
-static int tomoyo_prepend(char **buffer, int *buflen, const char *str)
-{
- int namelen = strlen(str);
-
- if (*buflen < namelen)
- return -ENOMEM;
- *buflen -= namelen;
- *buffer -= namelen;
- memcpy(*buffer, str, namelen);
- return 0;
-}
-
-/**
- * tomoyo_sysctl_path - return the realpath of a ctl_table.
- * @table: pointer to "struct ctl_table".
- *
- * Returns realpath(3) of the @table on success.
- * Returns NULL on failure.
- *
- * This function uses tomoyo_alloc(), so the caller must call tomoyo_free()
- * if this function didn't return NULL.
- */
-static char *tomoyo_sysctl_path(struct ctl_table *table)
-{
- int buflen = TOMOYO_MAX_PATHNAME_LEN;
- char *buf = tomoyo_alloc(buflen);
- char *end = buf + buflen;
- int error = -ENOMEM;
-
- if (!buf)
- return NULL;
-
- *--end = '\0';
- buflen--;
- while (table) {
- if (tomoyo_prepend(&end, &buflen, table->procname) ||
- tomoyo_prepend(&end, &buflen, "/"))
- goto out;
- table = table->parent;
- }
- if (tomoyo_prepend(&end, &buflen, "/proc/sys"))
- goto out;
- error = tomoyo_encode(buf, end - buf, end);
- out:
- if (!error)
- return buf;
- tomoyo_free(buf);
- return NULL;
-}
-
-static int tomoyo_sysctl(struct ctl_table *table, int op)
-{
- int error;
- char *name;
-
- op &= MAY_READ | MAY_WRITE;
- if (!op)
- return 0;
- name = tomoyo_sysctl_path(table);
- if (!name)
- return -ENOMEM;
- error = tomoyo_check_file_perm(tomoyo_domain(), name, op);
- tomoyo_free(name);
- return error;
-}
-#endif
-
static int tomoyo_path_truncate(struct path *path, loff_t length,
unsigned int time_attrs)
{
@@ -274,9 +205,6 @@ static struct security_operations tomoyo_security_ops = {
.cred_transfer = tomoyo_cred_transfer,
.bprm_set_creds = tomoyo_bprm_set_creds,
.bprm_check_security = tomoyo_bprm_check_security,
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
- .sysctl = tomoyo_sysctl,
-#endif
.file_fcntl = tomoyo_file_fcntl,
.dentry_open = tomoyo_dentry_open,
.path_truncate = tomoyo_path_truncate,
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