[PATCH] SELinux: canonicalize getxattr()

This patch allows SELinux to canonicalize the value returned from
getxattr() via the security_inode_getsecurity() hook, which is called after
the fs level getxattr() function.

The purpose of this is to allow the in-core security context for an inode
to override the on-disk value.  This could happen in cases such as
upgrading a system to a different labeling form (e.g.  standard SELinux to
MLS) without needing to do a full relabel of the filesystem.

In such cases, we want getxattr() to return the canonical security context
that the kernel is using rather than what is stored on disk.

The implementation hooks into the inode_getsecurity(), adding another
parameter to indicate the result of the preceding fs-level getxattr() call,
so that SELinux knows whether to compare a value obtained from disk with
the kernel value.

We also now allow getxattr() to work for mountpoint labeled filesystems
(i.e.  mount with option context=foo_t), as we are able to return the
kernel value to the user.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index dac956ed98f0..607ee209ea3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -385,6 +385,9 @@ struct swap_info_struct;
  *      NULL to request the size of the buffer required.  @size indicates
  *      the size of @buffer in bytes.  Note that @name is the remainder
  *      of the attribute name after the security. prefix has been removed.
+ *      @err is the return value from the preceding fs getxattr call,
+ *      and can be used by the security module to determine whether it
+ *      should try and canonicalize the attribute value.
  *      Return number of bytes used/required on success.
  * @inode_setsecurity:
  *      Set the security label associated with @name for @inode from the
@@ -1091,7 +1094,7 @@ struct security_operations {
         int (*inode_getxattr) (struct dentry *dentry, char *name);
         int (*inode_listxattr) (struct dentry *dentry);
         int (*inode_removexattr) (struct dentry *dentry, char *name);
-        int (*inode_getsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size);
+        int (*inode_getsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err);
         int (*inode_setsecurity)(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags);
         int (*inode_listsecurity)(struct inode *inode, char *buffer, size_t buffer_size);
 
@@ -1580,11 +1583,11 @@ static inline int security_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
         return security_ops->inode_removexattr (dentry, name);
 }
 
-static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
         if (unlikely (IS_PRIVATE (inode)))
                 return 0;
-        return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, size);
+        return security_ops->inode_getsecurity(inode, name, buffer, size, err);
 }
 
 static inline int security_inode_setsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, const void *value, size_t size, int flags)
@@ -2222,7 +2225,7 @@ static inline int security_inode_removexattr (struct dentry *dentry, char *name)
         return cap_inode_removexattr(dentry, name);
 }
 
-static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size)
+static inline int security_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void *buffer, size_t size, int err)
 {
         return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }