Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 2 authors, 2019-08-27

Re: [PATCH 1/2] KEYS: Replace uid/gid/perm permissions checking with an ACL

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Date: 2019-08-14 22:41:14
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On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 07:58:14PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:16:14PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 08:49:56PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
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Hi David,

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 06:16:01PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
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On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 04:58:27PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
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Replace the uid/gid/perm permissions checking on a key with an ACL to allow
the SETATTR and SEARCH permissions to be split.  This will also allow a
greater range of subjects to represented.
This patch broke 'keyctl new_session', and hence broke all the fscrypt tests:

$ keyctl new_session
keyctl_session_to_parent: Permission denied

Output of 'keyctl show' is

$ keyctl show
Session Keyring
 605894913 --alswrv      0     0  keyring: _ses
 189223103 ----s-rv      0     0   \_ user: invocation_id

- Eric
This bug is still present in next-20190729.

- Eric
This fixes it:
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index aa3bfcadbc660..519c94f1cc3c2 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ static struct key_acl session_keyring_acl = {
 	.possessor_viewable = true,
 	.nr_ace	= 2,
 	.aces = {
-		KEY_POSSESSOR_ACE(KEY_ACE__PERMS & ~KEY_ACE_JOIN),
+		KEY_POSSESSOR_ACE(KEY_ACE__PERMS),
 		KEY_OWNER_ACE(KEY_ACE_VIEW | KEY_ACE_READ),
 	}
 };

The old permissions were KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_VIEW | KEY_USR_READ, so
I'm not sure why JOIN permission was removed?

- Eric
Ping.  This is still broken in linux-next.
David, any comment on this?  This is still broken in linux-next.

- Eric
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