vfs: define a generic function to read a file from the kernel

For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux.
These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just
this though to load a file into a local buffer.  There are minor but
important checks differences on each.  This patch set is the first
attempt at resolving some of these differences.

This patch introduces a common function for reading files from the kernel
with the corresponding security post-read hook and function.

Changelog v4+:
- export security_kernel_post_read_file() - Fengguang Wu
v3:
- additional bounds checking - Luis
v2:
- To simplify patch review, re-ordered patches

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index ae681002100a..9a83d82b61ac 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2577,6 +2577,7 @@ static inline void i_readcount_inc(struct inode *inode)
 extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int);
 
 extern int kernel_read(struct file *, loff_t, char *, unsigned long);
+extern int kernel_read_file(struct file *, void **, loff_t *, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t);
 extern ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
 extern struct file * open_exec(const char *);
diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index 71969de4058c..f82631cc7248 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -561,6 +561,13 @@
  *	the kernel module to load. If the module is being loaded from a blob,
  *	this argument will be NULL.
  *	Return 0 if permission is granted.
+ * @kernel_post_read_file:
+ *	Read a file specified by userspace.
+ *	@file contains the file structure pointing to the file being read
+ *	by the kernel.
+ *	@buf pointer to buffer containing the file contents.
+ *	@size length of the file contents.
+ *	Return 0 if permission is granted.
  * @task_fix_setuid:
  *	Update the module's state after setting one or more of the user
  *	identity attributes of the current process.  The @flags parameter
@@ -1457,6 +1464,7 @@ union security_list_options {
 	int (*kernel_fw_from_file)(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size);
 	int (*kernel_module_request)(char *kmod_name);
 	int (*kernel_module_from_file)(struct file *file);
+	int (*kernel_post_read_file)(struct file *file, char *buf, loff_t size);
 	int (*task_fix_setuid)(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 				int flags);
 	int (*task_setpgid)(struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid);
@@ -1716,6 +1724,7 @@ struct security_hook_heads {
 	struct list_head kernel_act_as;
 	struct list_head kernel_create_files_as;
 	struct list_head kernel_fw_from_file;
+	struct list_head kernel_post_read_file;
 	struct list_head kernel_module_request;
 	struct list_head kernel_module_from_file;
 	struct list_head task_fix_setuid;
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 4824a4ccaf1c..f30f5647d1e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode);
 int security_kernel_fw_from_file(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size);
 int security_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name);
 int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file);
+int security_kernel_post_read_file(struct file *file, char *buf, loff_t size);
 int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
 			     int flags);
 int security_task_setpgid(struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid);
@@ -866,6 +867,12 @@ static inline int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file)
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int security_kernel_post_read_file(struct file *file,
+						 char *buf, loff_t size)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static inline int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new,
 					   const struct cred *old,
 					   int flags)