From 3a3b7ce9336952ea7b9564d976d068a238976c9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:39:28 +1100 Subject: CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions Allow kernel services to override LSM settings appropriate to the actions performed by a task by duplicating a set of credentials, modifying it and then using task_struct::cred to point to it when performing operations on behalf of a task. This is used, for example, by CacheFiles which has to transparently access the cache on behalf of a process that thinks it is doing, say, NFS accesses with a potentially inappropriate (with respect to accessing the cache) set of credentials. This patch provides two LSM hooks for modifying a task security record: (*) security_kernel_act_as() which allows modification of the security datum with which a task acts on other objects (most notably files). (*) security_kernel_create_files_as() which allows modification of the security datum that is used to initialise the security data on a file that a task creates. The patch also provides four new credentials handling functions, which wrap the LSM functions: (1) prepare_kernel_cred() Prepare a set of credentials for a kernel service to use, based either on a daemon's credentials or on init_cred. All the keyrings are cleared. (2) set_security_override() Set the LSM security ID in a set of credentials to a specific security context, assuming permission from the LSM policy. (3) set_security_override_from_ctx() As (2), but takes the security context as a string. (4) set_create_files_as() Set the file creation LSM security ID in a set of credentials to be the same as that on a particular inode. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler [Smack changes] Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: James Morris --- include/linux/security.h | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/security.h') diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 56a0eed65673..59a11e19b617 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -587,6 +587,19 @@ static inline void security_free_mnt_opts(struct security_mnt_opts *opts) * @new points to the new credentials. * @old points to the original credentials. * Install a new set of credentials. + * @kernel_act_as: + * Set the credentials for a kernel service to act as (subjective context). + * @new points to the credentials to be modified. + * @secid specifies the security ID to be set + * The current task must be the one that nominated @secid. + * Return 0 if successful. + * @kernel_create_files_as: + * Set the file creation context in a set of credentials to be the same as + * the objective context of the specified inode. + * @new points to the credentials to be modified. + * @inode points to the inode to use as a reference. + * The current task must be the one that nominated @inode. + * Return 0 if successful. * @task_setuid: * Check permission before setting one or more of the user identity * attributes of the current process. The @flags parameter indicates @@ -1381,6 +1394,8 @@ struct security_operations { int (*cred_prepare)(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, gfp_t gfp); void (*cred_commit)(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old); + int (*kernel_act_as)(struct cred *new, u32 secid); + int (*kernel_create_files_as)(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode); int (*task_setuid) (uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags); int (*task_fix_setuid) (struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags); @@ -1632,6 +1647,8 @@ int security_task_create(unsigned long clone_flags); void security_cred_free(struct cred *cred); int security_prepare_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, gfp_t gfp); void security_commit_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old); +int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid); +int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode); int security_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags); int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags); @@ -2151,6 +2168,17 @@ static inline void security_commit_creds(struct cred *new, { } +static inline int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *cred, u32 secid) +{ + return 0; +} + +static inline int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *cred, + struct inode *inode) +{ + return 0; +} + static inline int security_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags) { -- cgit v1.2.1