Thread (8 messages) 8 messages, 4 authors, 2019-02-12

Re: [PATCH] LSM: Ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is specified

From: Kees Cook <hidden>
Date: 2019-02-12 00:26:19
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 4:21 PM Tetsuo Handa
[off-list ref] wrote:
Kees Cook wrote:
quoted
To avoid potential confusion, explicitly ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is
used on the command line, and report that it is happening.
To maintain the existing behavior of CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY, I also suggest this change.
This saves e.g. Ubuntu users who are using only AppArmor from explicitly specifying
security=apparmor when they don't want to enable other LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR modules.
No, this completely disables the purpose of lsm=

I don't understand the use-case you're concerned about?

-Kees
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---
 security/Kconfig    | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 security/security.c |  5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 9555f49..6a40995 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -250,5 +250,42 @@ config LSM

          If unsure, leave this as the default.

+choice
+       prompt "Default exclusive security module"
+       default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX if SECURITY_SELINUX
+       default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK if SECURITY_SMACK
+       default DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO if SECURITY_TOMOYO
+       default DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR if SECURITY_APPARMOR
+       default DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+
+       help
+         The security module where only one of these modules should be enabled if
+         neither the "security=" parameter nor the "lsm=" parameter is specified.
+
+       config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX
+               bool "SELinux" if SECURITY_SELINUX=y
+
+       config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK
+               bool "Simplified Mandatory Access Control" if SECURITY_SMACK=y
+
+       config DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO
+               bool "TOMOYO" if SECURITY_TOMOYO=y
+
+       config DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
+               bool "AppArmor" if SECURITY_APPARMOR=y
+
+       config DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+               bool "Unix Discretionary Access Controls"
+
+endchoice
+
+config DEFAULT_SECURITY
+       string
+       default "selinux" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX
+       default "smack" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK
+       default "tomoyo" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO
+       default "apparmor" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
+       default "" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+
 endmenu
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index e6153ed..c44e3cd 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -294,8 +294,11 @@ static void __init ordered_lsm_init(void)
                        chosen_major_lsm = NULL;
                }
                ordered_lsm_parse(chosen_lsm_order, "cmdline");
-       } else
+       } else {
+               if (!chosen_major_lsm)
+                       chosen_major_lsm = CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY;
                ordered_lsm_parse(builtin_lsm_order, "builtin");
+       }

        for (lsm = ordered_lsms; *lsm; lsm++)
                prepare_lsm(*lsm);
--
1.8.3.1

-- 
Kees Cook
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