[PATCH v5 1/1] security: Add mechanism to safely (un)load LSMs after boot time
From: Sargun Dhillon <hidden>
Date: 2018-04-10 21:24:45
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On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Tetsuo Handa [off-list ref] wrote:
Sargun Dhillon wrote:quoted
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Remove SECURITY_HOOK_COUNT and "struct security_hook_list"->owner and the exception in randomize_layout_plugin.c because preventing module unloading won't work as expected.Rather than completely removing the unloading code, might it make sense to add a BUG_ON or WARN_ON, in security_delete_hooks if allow_unload_module is false, and owner is not NULL?Do we need to check ->owner != NULL? Although it will be true that SELinux's ->owner == NULL and LKM-based LSM module's ->owner != NULL, I think we unregister SELinux before setting allow_unload_module to false. Thus, rejecting delete_security_hooks() if allow_unload_module == false will be sufficient. SELinux might want to call panic() if delete_security_hooks() did not unregister due to allow_unload_module == false. Also, allow_unload_module would be renamed to allow_unregister_module. By the way, please don't use BUG_ON() or WARN_ON() because syzbot would hit and call panic() because syzbot runs tests with panic_on_warn == true.
I think my primary question is for the SELinux folks -- what do you think the behaviour should be? If allow_unload_modules / allow_unregister_module is set, do you want to be able to call security_delete_hooks? What do you think the right action should be if it fails? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html