Re: [RFC 5/8] kdbus: use LSM hooks in kdbus code

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Fri Jul 10 2015 - 12:57:11 EST


On 07/08/2015 09:37 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 07/08/2015 06:25 AM, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
>> Originates from:
>>
>> https://github.com/lmctl/kdbus.git (branch: kdbus-lsm-v4.for-systemd-v212)
>> commit: aa0885489d19be92fa41c6f0a71df28763228a40
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Karol Lewandowski <k.lewandowsk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Osmialowski <p.osmialowsk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> ipc/kdbus/bus.c | 12 ++++++++++-
>> ipc/kdbus/bus.h | 3 +++
>> ipc/kdbus/connection.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> ipc/kdbus/connection.h | 4 ++++
>> ipc/kdbus/domain.c | 9 ++++++++-
>> ipc/kdbus/domain.h | 2 ++
>> ipc/kdbus/endpoint.c | 11 ++++++++++
>> ipc/kdbus/names.c | 11 ++++++++++
>> ipc/kdbus/queue.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>> 9 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>>
>
>> diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/connection.c b/ipc/kdbus/connection.c
>> index 9993753..b85cdc7 100644
>> --- a/ipc/kdbus/connection.c
>> +++ b/ipc/kdbus/connection.c
>> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>> #include <linux/slab.h>
>> #include <linux/syscalls.h>
>> #include <linux/uio.h>
>> +#include <linux/security.h>
>>
>> #include "bus.h"
>> #include "connection.h"
>> @@ -73,6 +74,8 @@ static struct kdbus_conn *kdbus_conn_new(struct kdbus_ep *ep, bool privileged,
>> bool is_activator;
>> bool is_monitor;
>> struct kvec kvec;
>> + u32 sid, len;
>> + char *label;
>> int ret;
>>
>> struct {
>> @@ -222,6 +225,14 @@ static struct kdbus_conn *kdbus_conn_new(struct kdbus_ep *ep, bool privileged,
>> }
>> }
>>
>> + security_task_getsecid(current, &sid);
>> + security_secid_to_secctx(sid, &label, &len);
>> + ret = security_kdbus_connect(conn, label, len);
>> + if (ret) {
>> + ret = -EPERM;
>> + goto exit_unref;
>> + }
>
> This seems convoluted and expensive. If you always want the label of
> the current task here, then why not just have security_kdbus_connect()
> internally extract the label of the current task?
>
>> @@ -1107,6 +1119,12 @@ static int kdbus_conn_reply(struct kdbus_conn *src, struct kdbus_kmsg *kmsg)
>> if (ret < 0)
>> goto exit;
>>
>> + ret = security_kdbus_talk(src, dst);
>> + if (ret) {
>> + ret = -EPERM;
>> + goto exit;
>> + }
>
> Where does kdbus apply its uid-based or other restrictions on
> connections? Why do we need to insert separate hooks into each of these
> functions? Is there no central chokepoint already for permission
> checking that we can hook?

For example, why wouldn't you insert a single hook into
kdbus_conn_policy_talk() where they perform their DAC checking?
You would need to restructure it slightly to ensure that the security
hook is only called if it passes the DAC (privileged || uid_eq) check so
that we do not trigger MAC denials when DAC wouldn't have allowed it
anyway. Also, kdbus_conn_policy_talk() takes a separate conn_creds
argument - that should be passed through to the hook as well.


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