selinux: remove ptrace_sid
authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:46:39 +0000 (15:46 -0700)
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:26:10 +0000 (20:26 +1000)
This changes checks related to ptrace to get rid of the ptrace_sid tracking.
It's good to disentangle the security model from the ptrace implementation
internals.  It's sufficient to check against the SID of the ptracer at the
time a tracee attempts a transition.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
security/selinux/hooks.c
security/selinux/include/objsec.h

index 973e31eb109786384d1fb2c65692b2ed07dd90b0..9d002f8484a3af190fb7afd7f07a1a887e56ee28 100644 (file)
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ static int task_alloc_security(struct task_struct *task)
        if (!tsec)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       tsec->osid = tsec->sid = tsec->ptrace_sid = SECINITSID_UNLABELED;
+       tsec->osid = tsec->sid = SECINITSID_UNLABELED;
        task->security = tsec;
 
        return 0;
@@ -1671,19 +1671,13 @@ static inline u32 file_to_av(struct file *file)
 
 static int selinux_ptrace(struct task_struct *parent, struct task_struct *child)
 {
-       struct task_security_struct *psec = parent->security;
-       struct task_security_struct *csec = child->security;
        int rc;
 
        rc = secondary_ops->ptrace(parent,child);
        if (rc)
                return rc;
 
-       rc = task_has_perm(parent, child, PROCESS__PTRACE);
-       /* Save the SID of the tracing process for later use in apply_creds. */
-       if (!(child->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) && !rc)
-               csec->ptrace_sid = psec->sid;
-       return rc;
+       return task_has_perm(parent, child, PROCESS__PTRACE);
 }
 
 static int selinux_capget(struct task_struct *target, kernel_cap_t *effective,
@@ -1905,6 +1899,22 @@ static int selinux_vm_enough_memory(struct mm_struct *mm, long pages)
        return __vm_enough_memory(mm, pages, cap_sys_admin);
 }
 
+/**
+ * task_tracer_task - return the task that is tracing the given task
+ * @task:              task to consider
+ *
+ * Returns NULL if noone is tracing @task, or the &struct task_struct
+ * pointer to its tracer.
+ *
+ * Must be called under rcu_read_lock().
+ */
+static struct task_struct *task_tracer_task(struct task_struct *task)
+{
+       if (task->ptrace & PT_PTRACED)
+               return rcu_dereference(task->parent);
+       return NULL;
+}
+
 /* binprm security operations */
 
 static int selinux_bprm_alloc_security(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
@@ -2151,12 +2161,25 @@ static void selinux_bprm_apply_creds(struct linux_binprm *bprm, int unsafe)
                /* Check for ptracing, and update the task SID if ok.
                   Otherwise, leave SID unchanged and kill. */
                if (unsafe & (LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE | LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP)) {
-                       rc = avc_has_perm(tsec->ptrace_sid, sid,
-                                         SECCLASS_PROCESS, PROCESS__PTRACE,
-                                         NULL);
-                       if (rc) {
-                               bsec->unsafe = 1;
-                               return;
+                       struct task_struct *tracer;
+                       struct task_security_struct *sec;
+                       u32 ptsid = 0;
+
+                       rcu_read_lock();
+                       tracer = task_tracer_task(current);
+                       if (likely(tracer != NULL)) {
+                               sec = tracer->security;
+                               ptsid = sec->sid;
+                       }
+                       rcu_read_unlock();
+
+                       if (ptsid != 0) {
+                               rc = avc_has_perm(ptsid, sid, SECCLASS_PROCESS,
+                                                 PROCESS__PTRACE, NULL);
+                               if (rc) {
+                                       bsec->unsafe = 1;
+                                       return;
+                               }
                        }
                }
                tsec->sid = sid;
@@ -3112,11 +3135,6 @@ static int selinux_task_alloc_security(struct task_struct *tsk)
        tsec2->keycreate_sid = tsec1->keycreate_sid;
        tsec2->sockcreate_sid = tsec1->sockcreate_sid;
 
-       /* Retain ptracer SID across fork, if any.
-          This will be reset by the ptrace hook upon any
-          subsequent ptrace_attach operations. */
-       tsec2->ptrace_sid = tsec1->ptrace_sid;
-
        return 0;
 }
 
@@ -5080,6 +5098,7 @@ static int selinux_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p,
                               char *name, void *value, size_t size)
 {
        struct task_security_struct *tsec;
+       struct task_struct *tracer;
        u32 sid = 0;
        int error;
        char *str = value;
@@ -5168,18 +5187,24 @@ static int selinux_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p,
                /* Check for ptracing, and update the task SID if ok.
                   Otherwise, leave SID unchanged and fail. */
                task_lock(p);
-               if (p->ptrace & PT_PTRACED) {
-                       error = avc_has_perm_noaudit(tsec->ptrace_sid, sid,
+               rcu_read_lock();
+               tracer = task_tracer_task(p);
+               if (tracer != NULL) {
+                       struct task_security_struct *ptsec = tracer->security;
+                       u32 ptsid = ptsec->sid;
+                       rcu_read_unlock();
+                       error = avc_has_perm_noaudit(ptsid, sid,
                                                     SECCLASS_PROCESS,
                                                     PROCESS__PTRACE, 0, &avd);
                        if (!error)
                                tsec->sid = sid;
                        task_unlock(p);
-                       avc_audit(tsec->ptrace_sid, sid, SECCLASS_PROCESS,
+                       avc_audit(ptsid, sid, SECCLASS_PROCESS,
                                  PROCESS__PTRACE, &avd, error, NULL);
                        if (error)
                                return error;
                } else {
+                       rcu_read_unlock();
                        tsec->sid = sid;
                        task_unlock(p);
                }
@@ -5653,5 +5678,3 @@ int selinux_disable(void)
        return 0;
 }
 #endif
-
-
index 020a8754b8091f0dfa6d8eb9ca7ffa4ee578eb4a..957b10d0f76fd64f5f9b26f62ca2deb608132959 100644 (file)
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ struct task_security_struct {
        u32 create_sid;      /* fscreate SID */
        u32 keycreate_sid;   /* keycreate SID */
        u32 sockcreate_sid;  /* fscreate SID */
-       u32 ptrace_sid;      /* SID of ptrace parent */
 };
 
 struct inode_security_struct {