CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task

Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.

task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.

task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running.  These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.

__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.

current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.

prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).

override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds.  These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.

In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm().  This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/auth.c b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
index 836ffa1047d9..0184fe9b514c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/auth.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/auth.c
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ int nfsd_setuser(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp)
         int flags = nfsexp_flags(rqstp, exp);
         int ret;
 
+        /* discard any old override before preparing the new set */
+        revert_creds(get_cred(current->real_cred));
         new = prepare_creds();
         if (!new)
                 return -ENOMEM;
@@ -82,7 +84,8 @@ int nfsd_setuser(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_export *exp)
         else
                 new->cap_effective = cap_raise_nfsd_set(new->cap_effective,
                                                         new->cap_permitted);
-        return commit_creds(new);
+        put_cred(override_creds(new));
+        return 0;
 
 oom:
         ret = -ENOMEM;