Thread (92 messages) 92 messages, 7 authors, 2018-10-08

Re: [PATCH security-next v4 10/32] LSM: Don't ignore initialization failures

From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Date: 2018-10-02 21:20:45
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Kees Cook wrote:
LSM initialization failures have traditionally been ignored. We should
at least WARN when something goes wrong.
I guess we could have a boot param which specifies what to do if any LSM 
fails to init, as I think some folks will want to stop execution at that 
point.

Thoughts?

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
---
 security/security.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 395f804f6a91..2055af907eba 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -55,10 +55,12 @@ static __initdata bool debug;
 static void __init major_lsm_init(void)
 {
 	struct lsm_info *lsm;
+	int ret;
 
 	for (lsm = __start_lsm_info; lsm < __end_lsm_info; lsm++) {
 		init_debug("initializing %s\n", lsm->name);
-		lsm->init();
+		ret = lsm->init();
+		WARN(ret, "%s failed to initialize: %d\n", lsm->name, ret);
 	}
 }
 
-- 
James Morris
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