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authorCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2013-10-11 18:06:39 -0700
committerCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2013-10-18 09:39:33 -0700
commitc0ab6e56dcb7ca9903d460247cb464e769ae6e77 (patch)
tree52da39cb2798c0a4276d0d23fa3b4f1dbcd732f2 /security/smack/smackfs.c
parent5a5f2acfd04269e2e0958067216b68ff461c285c (diff)
Smack: Implement lock security mode
Linux file locking does not follow the same rules as other mechanisms. Even though it is a write operation a process can set a read lock on files which it has open only for read access. Two programs with read access to a file can use read locks to communicate. This is not acceptable in a Mandatory Access Control environment. Smack treats setting a read lock as the write operation that it is. Unfortunately, many programs assume that setting a read lock is a read operation. These programs are unhappy in the Smack environment. This patch introduces a new access mode (lock) to address this problem. A process with lock access to a file can set a read lock. A process with write access to a file can set a read lock or a write lock. This prevents a situation where processes are granted write access just so they can set read locks. Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/smack/smackfs.c')
-rw-r--r--security/smack/smackfs.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
index 80f4b4a45725..160aa08e3cd5 100644
--- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
+++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ const char *smack_cipso_option = SMACK_CIPSO_OPTION;
* SMK_LOADLEN: Smack rule length
*/
#define SMK_OACCESS "rwxa"
-#define SMK_ACCESS "rwxat"
+#define SMK_ACCESS "rwxatl"
#define SMK_OACCESSLEN (sizeof(SMK_OACCESS) - 1)
#define SMK_ACCESSLEN (sizeof(SMK_ACCESS) - 1)
#define SMK_OLOADLEN (SMK_LABELLEN + SMK_LABELLEN + SMK_OACCESSLEN)
@@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ static int smk_perm_from_str(const char *string)
case 'T':
perm |= MAY_TRANSMUTE;
break;
+ case 'l':
+ case 'L':
+ perm |= MAY_LOCK;
+ break;
default:
return perm;
}
@@ -452,7 +456,7 @@ static ssize_t smk_write_rules_list(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
/*
* Minor hack for backward compatibility
*/
- if (count != SMK_OLOADLEN && count != SMK_LOADLEN)
+ if (count < SMK_OLOADLEN || count > SMK_LOADLEN)
return -EINVAL;
} else {
if (count >= PAGE_SIZE) {
@@ -592,6 +596,8 @@ static void smk_rule_show(struct seq_file *s, struct smack_rule *srp, int max)
seq_putc(s, 'a');
if (srp->smk_access & MAY_TRANSMUTE)
seq_putc(s, 't');
+ if (srp->smk_access & MAY_LOCK)
+ seq_putc(s, 'l');
seq_putc(s, '\n');
}