Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2017-10-23

[RFC PATCH 1/2] security, capabilities: Add CAP_SYS_MOUNT

From: Stephen Smalley <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-23 12:57:39
Also in: linux-api, linux-ext4, linux-fsdevel, lkml, selinux

On Sat, 2017-10-21 at 15:43 +0200, Nicolas Belouin wrote:
With CAP_SYS_ADMIN being bloated and inapropriate for actions such
as mounting/unmounting filesystems, the creation of a new capability
is needed.
CAP_SYS_MOUNT is meant to give a process the ability to call for
mount,
umount and umount2 syscalls.
If adding a new capability isn't deemed acceptable, then another option
would be to introduce LSM hooks where there isn't already coverage and
implement finer-grained permission checks there.  In some cases, that
already occurs for mount and umount*.  That also offers the possibility
of taking the object of the operation into account, unlike capabilities
which are only subject/process-based.

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Belouin <redacted>
---
?include/uapi/linux/capability.h?????| 5 ++++-
?security/selinux/include/classmap.h | 4 ++--
?2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
index 230e05d35191..ce230aa6d928 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/capability.h
@@ -365,8 +365,11 @@ struct vfs_ns_cap_data {
?
?#define CAP_AUDIT_READ		37
?
+/* Allow mounting, unmounting filesystems */
?
-#define CAP_LAST_CAP?????????CAP_AUDIT_READ
+#define CAP_SYS_MOUNT		38
+
+#define CAP_LAST_CAP?????????CAP_SYS_MOUNT
?
?#define cap_valid(x) ((x) >= 0 && (x) <= CAP_LAST_CAP)
?
diff --git a/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
b/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
index 35ffb29a69cb..a873dce97fd5 100644
--- a/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/classmap.h
@@ -24,9 +24,9 @@
?	????"audit_control", "setfcap"
?
?#define COMMON_CAP2_PERMS??"mac_override", "mac_admin", "syslog", \
-		"wake_alarm", "block_suspend", "audit_read"
+		"wake_alarm", "block_suspend", "audit_read",
"sys_mount"
?
-#if CAP_LAST_CAP > CAP_AUDIT_READ
+#if CAP_LAST_CAP > CAP_SYS_MOUNT
?#error New capability defined, please update COMMON_CAP2_PERMS.
?#endif
?
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