On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 20:33 +0000, Taras Kondratiuk wrote:
> From: Victor Kamensky <kamen...@cisco.com>
>
> With initramfs cpio format that supports extended attributes
> we need to skip sid population on sys_lsetxattr call from
> initramfs for rootfs if security server is not initialized yet.
>
> Otherwise callback in selinux_inode_post_setxattr will try to
> translate give security.selinux label into sid context and since
> security server is not available yet inode will receive default
> sid (typically kernel_t). Note that in the same time proper
> label will be stored in inode xattrs. Later, since inode sid
> would be already populated system will never look back at
> actual xattrs. But if we skip sid population for rootfs and
> we have policy that direct use of xattrs for rootfs, proper
> sid will be filled in from extended attributes one node is
> accessed and server is initialized.
>
> Note new DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT super block flag is introduced
> to only mark rootfs for such behavior. For other types of
> tmpfs original logic is still used.
(cc selinux maintainers)
Wondering if we shouldn't just do this always, for all filesystem
types. Also, I think this should likely also be done in
selinux_inode_setsecurity() for consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Victor Kamensky <kamen...@cisco.com>
> ---
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 9 ++++++++-
> security/selinux/include/security.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index f3fe65589f02..bb25268f734e 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ static int selinux_set_mnt_opts(struct
> super_block *sb,
> */
> if (!strncmp(sb->s_type->name, "rootfs",
> sizeof("rootfs")))
> - sbsec->flags |= SBLABEL_MNT;
> + sbsec->flags |=
> SBLABEL_MNT|DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT;
>
> /* Defer initialization until
> selinux_complete_init,
> after the initial policy is loaded and
> the security
> @@ -3253,6 +3253,7 @@ static void selinux_inode_post_setxattr(struct
> dentry *dentry, const char *name,
> {
> struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);
> struct inode_security_struct *isec;
> + struct superblock_security_struct *sbsec;
> u32 newsid;
> int rc;
>
> @@ -3261,6 +3262,12 @@ static void selinux_inode_post_setxattr(struct
> dentry *dentry, const char *name,
> return;
> }
>
> + if (!ss_initialized) {
> + sbsec = inode->i_sb->s_security;
> + if (sbsec->flags & DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT)
> + return;
> + }
> +
> rc = security_context_to_sid_force(value, size, &newsid);
> if (rc) {
> printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux: unable to map context to
> SID"
> diff --git a/security/selinux/include/security.h
> b/security/selinux/include/security.h
> index 02f0412d42f2..585acfd6cbcf 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/include/security.h
> +++ b/security/selinux/include/security.h
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
> #define ROOTCONTEXT_MNT 0x04
> #define DEFCONTEXT_MNT 0x08
> #define SBLABEL_MNT 0x10
> +#define DELAYAFTERINIT_MNT 0x20
> /* Non-mount related flags */
> #define SE_SBINITIALIZED 0x0100
> #define SE_SBPROC 0x0200
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