[RFC][PATCH 0/5] Smack transmute fixes

[Roberto Sassu]

From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>

The first two patches are obvious fixes, the first restricts setting the
SMACK64TRANSMUTE xattr only for directories, and the second makes it
possible to set SMACK64TRANSMUTE if the filesystem does not support xattrs
(e.g. ramfs).

The remaining fixes are optional, and only required if we want filesystems
without xattr support behave like those with xattr support. Since we have
the inode_setsecurity and inode_getsecurity hooks to make the first group
work, it seems useful to fix inode creation too (SELinux should be fine).

The third patch is merely a code move out of the 'if (xattr)' condition.
The fourth updates the security field of the in-memory inode directly in
smack_inode_init_security() and marks the inode as instantiated, and the
fifth adds a security_inode_init_security() call in ramfs to initialize the
security field of the in-memory inodes (needed to test transmuting
directories).

Both the Smack (on xfs) and IMA test suite succeed with all patches
applied.

By setting the ROOT variable to a ramfs mountpoint, the results are:

Without the patches:
86 Passed, 9 Failed, 90% Success rate

With the patches:
93 Passed, 2 Failed, 97% Success rate

The remaining two failures are:
2151  ioctl(4, BTRFS_IOC_CLONE or FICLONE, 3) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)
2152  lsetxattr("./targets/proc-attr-Snap", "security.SMACK64EXEC", "Pop", 3, 0) = -1 EOPNOTSUPP (Operation not supported)

The first one is likely due ramfs lack of support for ioctl() while the
second could be fixed by handling SMACK64EXEC in smack_inode_setsecurity().

The patch set applies on top of:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm.git/log/?h=next

plus:

https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next/commits/next

plus:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20230603191518.1397490-1-roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

The ramfs patch potentially could be useful to correctly initialize the
label of new inodes in the initramfs, assuming that it will be fully
labeled with support for xattrs in the cpio image:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-integrity/20190523121803.21638-1-roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx/

Ramfs inode labels will be set from xattrs with the inode_setsecurity hook.

Roberto Sassu (5):
  smack: Set SMACK64TRANSMUTE only for dirs in smack_inode_setxattr()
  smack: Handle SMACK64TRANSMUTE in smack_inode_setsecurity()
  smack: Always determine inode labels in smack_inode_init_security()
  smack: Initialize the in-memory inode in smack_inode_init_security()
  ramfs: Initialize security of in-memory inodes

 fs/ramfs/inode.c           | 27 +++++++++++
 security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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