linux/security
Paul Moore a3727a8bac selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups
Jann Horn reported a problem with commit eb1231f73c ("selinux:
clarify task subjective and objective credentials") where some LSM
hooks were attempting to access the subjective credentials of a task
other than the current task.  Generally speaking, it is not safe to
access another task's subjective credentials and doing so can cause
a number of problems.

Further, while looking into the problem, I realized that Smack was
suffering from a similar problem brought about by a similar commit
1fb057dcde ("smack: differentiate between subjective and objective
task credentials").

This patch addresses this problem by restoring the use of the task's
objective credentials in those cases where the task is other than the
current executing task.  Not only does this resolve the problem
reported by Jann, it is arguably the correct thing to do in these
cases.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: eb1231f73c ("selinux: clarify task subjective and objective credentials")
Fixes: 1fb057dcde ("smack: differentiate between subjective and objective task credentials")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2021-09-23 12:30:59 -04:00
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apparmor apparmor: use get_unaligned() only for multi-byte words 2021-05-17 13:30:29 +02:00
bpf bpf: Implement task local storage 2020-11-06 08:08:37 -08:00
integrity integrity-v5.15 2021-09-02 12:51:41 -07:00
keys trusted-keys: match tpm_get_ops on all return paths 2021-05-12 22:36:37 +03:00
landlock landlock: Enable user space to infer supported features 2021-04-22 12:22:11 -07:00
loadpin LSM: Add "contents" flag to kernel_read_file hook 2020-10-05 13:37:03 +02:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid LSM: SafeSetID: Mark safesetid_initialized as __initdata 2021-06-10 09:52:32 -07:00
selinux selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups 2021-09-23 12:30:59 -04:00
smack selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups 2021-09-23 12:30:59 -04:00
tomoyo mm/pagemap: add mmap_assert_locked() annotations to find_vma*() 2021-09-03 09:58:13 -07:00
yama task_work: cleanup notification modes 2020-10-17 15:05:30 -06:00
commoncap.c Miscellaneous minor fixes for v5.13. 2021-04-27 19:32:55 -07:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Fix RCU list debugging warning 2020-08-20 11:25:03 -07:00
inode.c
Kconfig landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials 2021-04-22 12:22:10 -07:00
Kconfig.hardening hardening: Clarify Kconfig text for auto-var-init 2021-07-20 23:02:59 -07:00
lsm_audit.c audit: remove unnecessary 'ret' initialization 2021-06-11 13:21:28 -04:00
Makefile security: remove unneeded subdir-$(CONFIG_...) 2021-09-03 08:17:20 +09:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c bpf: Add lockdown check for probe_write_user helper 2021-08-10 10:10:10 +02:00