litmus-rt.git/security, branch linux-tip

capabilities/syslog: open code cap_syslog logic to fix build failure

2010-11-15T23:40:01+00:00

The addition of CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT resulted in a build
failure when CONFIG_PRINTK=n.  This is because the capabilities code
which used the new option was built even though the variable in question
didn't exist.

The patch here fixes this by moving the capabilities checks out of the
LSM and into the caller.  All (known) LSMs should have been calling the
capabilities hook already so it actually makes the code organization
better to eliminate the hook altogether.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

2010-11-12T16:00:25+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of apparmor_init()
  APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of alloc_namespace()

Restrict unprivileged access to kernel syslog

2010-11-12T15:55:32+00:00

The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful
during exploitation of other vulnerabilities, such as kernel heap
addresses.  Rather than futilely attempt to sanitize hundreds (or
thousands) of printk statements and simultaneously cripple useful
debugging functionality, it is far simpler to create an option that
prevents unprivileged users from reading the syslog.

This patch, loosely based on grsecurity's GRKERNSEC_DMESG, creates the
dmesg_restrict sysctl.  When set to "0", the default, no restrictions are
enforced.  When set to "1", only users with CAP_SYS_ADMIN can read the
kernel syslog via dmesg(8) or other mechanisms.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: explain the config option in kernel.txt]
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar 
Acked-by: Eugene Teo 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of apparmor_init()

2010-11-10T20:36:22+00:00

set_init_cxt() allocted sizeof(struct aa_task_cxt) bytes for cxt,
if register_security() failed, it will cause memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang 
Signed-off-by: John Johansen 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

APPARMOR: Fix memory leak of alloc_namespace()

2010-11-10T20:36:18+00:00

policy->name is a substring of policy->hname, if prefix is not NULL, it will
allocted strlen(prefix) + strlen(name) + 3 bytes to policy->hname in policy_init().
use kzfree(ns->base.name) will casue memory leak if alloc_namespace() failed.

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang 
Signed-off-by: John Johansen 
Signed-off-by: James Morris

convert get_sb_single() users

2010-10-29T08:16:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Fix install_process_keyring error handling

2010-10-28T16:02:15+00:00

Fix an incorrect error check that returns 1 for error instead of the
expected error code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6

2010-10-27T00:58:44+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (52 commits)
  split invalidate_inodes()
  fs: skip I_FREEING inodes in writeback_sb_inodes
  fs: fold invalidate_list into invalidate_inodes
  fs: do not drop inode_lock in dispose_list
  fs: inode split IO and LRU lists
  fs: switch bdev inode bdi's correctly
  fs: fix buffer invalidation in invalidate_list
  fsnotify: use dget_parent
  smbfs: use dget_parent
  exportfs: use dget_parent
  fs: use RCU read side protection in d_validate
  fs: clean up dentry lru modification
  fs: split __shrink_dcache_sb
  fs: improve DCACHE_REFERENCED usage
  fs: use percpu counter for nr_dentry and nr_dentry_unused
  fs: simplify __d_free
  fs: take dcache_lock inside __d_path
  fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode
  fs: introduce a per-cpu last_ino allocator
  new helper: ihold()
  ...

Merge branch 'ima-memory-use-fixes'

2010-10-26T18:37:48+00:00

* ima-memory-use-fixes:
  IMA: fix the ToMToU logic
  IMA: explicit IMA i_flag to remove global lock on inode_delete
  IMA: drop refcnt from ima_iint_cache since it isn't needed
  IMA: only allocate iint when needed
  IMA: move read counter into struct inode
  IMA: use i_writecount rather than a private counter
  IMA: use inode->i_lock to protect read and write counters
  IMA: convert internal flags from long to char
  IMA: use unsigned int instead of long for counters
  IMA: drop the inode opencount since it isn't needed for operation
  IMA: use rbtree instead of radix tree for inode information cache

IMA: fix the ToMToU logic

2010-10-26T18:37:19+00:00

Current logic looks like this:

        rc = ima_must_measure(NULL, inode, MAY_READ, FILE_CHECK);
        if (rc < 0)
                goto out;

        if (mode & FMODE_WRITE) {
                if (inode->i_readcount)
                        send_tomtou = true;
                goto out;
        }

        if (atomic_read(&inode->i_writecount) > 0)
                send_writers = true;

Lets assume we have a policy which states that all files opened for read
by root must be measured.

Lets assume the file has permissions 777.

Lets assume that root has the given file open for read.

Lets assume that a non-root process opens the file write.

The non-root process will get to ima_counts_get() and will check the
ima_must_measure().  Since it is not supposed to measure it will goto
out.

We should check the i_readcount no matter what since we might be causing
a ToMToU voilation!

This is close to correct, but still not quite perfect.  The situation
could have been that root, which was interested in the mesurement opened
and closed the file and another process which is not interested in the
measurement is the one holding the i_readcount ATM.  This is just overly
strict on ToMToU violations, which is better than not strict enough...

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris 
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds