Re: [PATCH 4.9 45/47] Smack: Dont ignore other bprm->unsafe flags if LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE is set

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Thu Dec 12 2019 - 12:32:27 EST


On Thu, 2019-12-12 at 18:06 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 03:50:07PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2019-10-06 at 19:21 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit 3675f052b43ba51b99b85b073c7070e083f3e6fb upstream.
> > [...]
> > > --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > > +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > > @@ -949,7 +949,8 @@ static int smack_bprm_set_creds(struct l
> > >
> > > if (rc != 0)
> > > return rc;
> > > - } else if (bprm->unsafe)
> > > + }
> > > + if (bprm->unsafe & ~LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE)
> >
> > I think this needs to be ~(LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE | LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP)
> > for 4.9 and older branches.
>
> Why? Where did the LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP requirement come from (or
> really, go away?)

LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP was combined with LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE by:

commit 9227dd2a84a765fcfef1677ff17de0958b192eda
Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Jan 23 17:26:31 2017 +1300

exec: Remove LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP

If I understand the patch ("Smack: Dont ignore other bprm->unsafe
flags â") correctly, this function should have one if-statement
handling LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE (and LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP if it exists),
followed by another if-statement handling all other flags in
bprm->unsafe.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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