Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] smack: Retrieve transmuting information in smack_inode_getsecurity()

From: Munehisa Kamata
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 03:55:35 EST


Hi Casey, Roberto

On Thu, 2023-05-11 17:12:50 +0000, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>
> On 5/8/2023 10:02 AM, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Enhance smack_inode_getsecurity() to retrieve the value for
> > SMACK64TRANSMUTE from the inode security blob, similarly to SMACK64.
> >
> > This helps to display accurate values in the situation where the security
> > labels come from mount options and not from xattrs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks good. I have added to smack next.

Do you have any objections to backporting these patches to -stable? If not,
I'll ask it in the stable list along with another overlayfs-related fix
387ef964460f ("Smack:- Use overlay inode label in smack_inode_copy_up()").


Thanks,
Munehisa

>
> > ---
> > security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++----
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > index 7a3e9ab137d..c7e37ed2799 100644
> > --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > @@ -1463,10 +1463,19 @@ static int smack_inode_getsecurity(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
> > struct super_block *sbp;
> > struct inode *ip = inode;
> > struct smack_known *isp;
> > + struct inode_smack *ispp;
> > + size_t label_len;
> > + char *label = NULL;
> >
> > - if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX) == 0)
> > + if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX) == 0) {
> > isp = smk_of_inode(inode);
> > - else {
> > + } else if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SMACK_TRANSMUTE) == 0) {
> > + ispp = smack_inode(inode);
> > + if (ispp->smk_flags & SMK_INODE_TRANSMUTE)
> > + label = TRANS_TRUE;
> > + else
> > + label = "";
> > + } else {
> > /*
> > * The rest of the Smack xattrs are only on sockets.
> > */
> > @@ -1488,13 +1497,18 @@ static int smack_inode_getsecurity(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > }
> >
> > + if (!label)
> > + label = isp->smk_known;
> > +
> > + label_len = strlen(label);
> > +
> > if (alloc) {
> > - *buffer = kstrdup(isp->smk_known, GFP_KERNEL);
> > + *buffer = kstrdup(label, GFP_KERNEL);
> > if (*buffer == NULL)
> > return -ENOMEM;
> > }
> >
> > - return strlen(isp->smk_known);
> > + return label_len;
> > }
> >
> >
>