[PATCH v4 35/68] cachefiles: Add security derivation

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Wed Dec 22 15:22:50 PST 2021


Implement code to derive a new set of creds for the cachefiles to use when
making VFS or I/O calls and to change the auditing info since the
application interacting with the network filesystem is not accessing the
cache directly.  Cachefiles uses override_creds() to change the effective
creds temporarily.

set_security_override_from_ctx() is called to derive the LSM 'label' that
the cachefiles driver will act with.  set_create_files_as() is called to
determine the LSM 'label' that will be applied to files and directories
created in the cache.  These functions alter the new creds.

Also implement a couple of functions to wrap the calls to begin/end cred
overriding.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
cc: linux-cachefs at redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819627469.215744.3603633690679962985.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906928172.143852.15886637013364286786.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967138138.1823006.7620933448261939504.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
---

 fs/cachefiles/Makefile   |    3 +
 fs/cachefiles/internal.h |   20 ++++++++
 fs/cachefiles/security.c |  112 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 fs/cachefiles/security.c

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/Makefile b/fs/cachefiles/Makefile
index 183fb5f3b8b1..28bbb0d14868 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/Makefile
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/Makefile
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 #
 
 cachefiles-y := \
-	main.o
+	main.o \
+	security.o
 
 cachefiles-$(CONFIG_CACHEFILES_ERROR_INJECTION) += error_inject.o
 
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
index b2adcb59b4ce..e57ce5ef875c 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/internal.h
@@ -104,6 +104,26 @@ static inline int cachefiles_inject_remove_error(void)
 	return cachefiles_error_injection_state & 2 ? -EIO : 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * security.c
+ */
+extern int cachefiles_get_security_ID(struct cachefiles_cache *cache);
+extern int cachefiles_determine_cache_security(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+					       struct dentry *root,
+					       const struct cred **_saved_cred);
+
+static inline void cachefiles_begin_secure(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+					   const struct cred **_saved_cred)
+{
+	*_saved_cred = override_creds(cache->cache_cred);
+}
+
+static inline void cachefiles_end_secure(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+					 const struct cred *saved_cred)
+{
+	revert_creds(saved_cred);
+}
+
 /*
  * Error handling
  */
diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/security.c b/fs/cachefiles/security.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..fe777164f1d8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/security.c
@@ -0,0 +1,112 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+/* CacheFiles security management
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007, 2021 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+ * Written by David Howells (dhowells at redhat.com)
+ */
+
+#include <linux/fs.h>
+#include <linux/cred.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
+/*
+ * determine the security context within which we access the cache from within
+ * the kernel
+ */
+int cachefiles_get_security_ID(struct cachefiles_cache *cache)
+{
+	struct cred *new;
+	int ret;
+
+	_enter("{%s}", cache->secctx);
+
+	new = prepare_kernel_cred(current);
+	if (!new) {
+		ret = -ENOMEM;
+		goto error;
+	}
+
+	if (cache->secctx) {
+		ret = set_security_override_from_ctx(new, cache->secctx);
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			put_cred(new);
+			pr_err("Security denies permission to nominate security context: error %d\n",
+			       ret);
+			goto error;
+		}
+	}
+
+	cache->cache_cred = new;
+	ret = 0;
+error:
+	_leave(" = %d", ret);
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * see if mkdir and create can be performed in the root directory
+ */
+static int cachefiles_check_cache_dir(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+				      struct dentry *root)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = security_inode_mkdir(d_backing_inode(root), root, 0);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		pr_err("Security denies permission to make dirs: error %d",
+		       ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	ret = security_inode_create(d_backing_inode(root), root, 0);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		pr_err("Security denies permission to create files: error %d",
+		       ret);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+/*
+ * check the security details of the on-disk cache
+ * - must be called with security override in force
+ * - must return with a security override in force - even in the case of an
+ *   error
+ */
+int cachefiles_determine_cache_security(struct cachefiles_cache *cache,
+					struct dentry *root,
+					const struct cred **_saved_cred)
+{
+	struct cred *new;
+	int ret;
+
+	_enter("");
+
+	/* duplicate the cache creds for COW (the override is currently in
+	 * force, so we can use prepare_creds() to do this) */
+	new = prepare_creds();
+	if (!new)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	cachefiles_end_secure(cache, *_saved_cred);
+
+	/* use the cache root dir's security context as the basis with
+	 * which create files */
+	ret = set_create_files_as(new, d_backing_inode(root));
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		abort_creds(new);
+		cachefiles_begin_secure(cache, _saved_cred);
+		_leave(" = %d [cfa]", ret);
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	put_cred(cache->cache_cred);
+	cache->cache_cred = new;
+
+	cachefiles_begin_secure(cache, _saved_cred);
+	ret = cachefiles_check_cache_dir(cache, root);
+
+	if (ret == -EOPNOTSUPP)
+		ret = 0;
+	_leave(" = %d", ret);
+	return ret;
+}





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