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authorPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2021-09-29 11:01:21 -0400
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2021-11-22 17:52:47 -0500
commit6326948f940dc3f77066d5cdc44ba6afe67830c0 (patch)
tree13976c9bfaedfc1105ac27a1efaf9c752d3949ee /kernel/auditsc.c
parentLinux 5.16-rc1 (diff)
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lsm: security_task_getsecid_subj() -> security_current_getsecid_subj()
The security_task_getsecid_subj() LSM hook invites misuse by allowing callers to specify a task even though the hook is only safe when the current task is referenced. Fix this by removing the task_struct argument to the hook, requiring LSM implementations to use the current task. While we are changing the hook declaration we also rename the function to security_current_getsecid_subj() in an effort to reinforce that the hook captures the subjective credentials of the current task and not an arbitrary task on the system. Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/auditsc.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditsc.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditsc.c b/kernel/auditsc.c
index b517947bfa48..fce5d43a933f 100644
--- a/kernel/auditsc.c
+++ b/kernel/auditsc.c
@@ -666,7 +666,16 @@ static int audit_filter_rules(struct task_struct *tsk,
logged upon error */
if (f->lsm_rule) {
if (need_sid) {
- security_task_getsecid_subj(tsk, &sid);
+ /* @tsk should always be equal to
+ * @current with the exception of
+ * fork()/copy_process() in which case
+ * the new @tsk creds are still a dup
+ * of @current's creds so we can still
+ * use security_current_getsecid_subj()
+ * here even though it always refs
+ * @current's creds
+ */
+ security_current_getsecid_subj(&sid);
need_sid = 0;
}
result = security_audit_rule_match(sid, f->type,