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 --- security/capability.c | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'security/capability.c') diff --git a/security/capability.c b/security/capability.c index 185804f99ad..b9e391425e6 100644 --- a/security/capability.c +++ b/security/capability.c @@ -348,6 +348,16 @@ static void cap_cred_commit(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old) { } +static int cap_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid) +{ + return 0; +} + +static int cap_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode) +{ + return 0; +} + static int cap_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags) { return 0; @@ -889,6 +899,8 @@ void security_fixup_ops(struct security_operations *ops) set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_free); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_prepare); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, cred_commit); + set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_act_as); + set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_create_files_as); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_setuid); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_fix_setuid); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_setgid); -- cgit v1.2.3