Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 3 authors, 2020-02-03

Re: SELinux: How to split permissions for keys?

From: Richard Haines <hidden>
Date: 2020-02-02 19:46:16
Also in: keyrings, lkml, selinux

On Thu, 2020-01-23 at 15:35 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
On 1/23/20 10:46 AM, Stephen Smalley wrote:
quoted
On 1/23/20 10:12 AM, David Howells wrote:
quoted
Hi Stephen,

I have patches to split the permissions that are used for keys to
make 
them a
bit finer grained and easier to use - and also to move to ACLs
rather 
than
fixed masks.  See patch "keys: Replace uid/gid/perm permissions 
checking with
an ACL" here:

    
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-acl
 


However, I may not have managed the permission mask
transformation inside
SELinux correctly.  Could you lend an eyeball?  The change to
the 
permissions
model is as follows:

     The SETATTR permission is split to create two new
permissions:
      (1) SET_SECURITY - which allows the key's owner, group and
ACL 
to be
          changed and a restriction to be placed on a keyring.
      (2) REVOKE - which allows a key to be revoked.
     The SEARCH permission is split to create:
      (1) SEARCH - which allows a keyring to be search and a key
to be 
found.
      (2) JOIN - which allows a keyring to be joined as a
session 
keyring.
      (3) INVAL - which allows a key to be invalidated.
     The WRITE permission is also split to create:
      (1) WRITE - which allows a key's content to be altered and
links 
to be
          added, removed and replaced in a keyring.
      (2) CLEAR - which allows a keyring to be cleared
completely.  
This is
          split out to make it possible to give just this to an 
administrator.
      (3) REVOKE - see above.

The change to SELinux is attached below.

Should the split be pushed down into the SELinux policy rather
than 
trying to
calculate it?
My understanding is that you must provide full backward
compatibility 
with existing policies; hence, you must ensure that you always
check the 
same SELinux permission(s) for the same operation when using an
existing 
policy.

In order to support finer-grained distinctions in SELinux with
future 
policies, you can define a new SELinux policy capability along with
the 
new permissions, and if the policy capability is enabled in the
policy, 
check the new permissions rather than the old ones. A recent
example of 
adding a new policy capability and using it can be seen in:
https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20200116194530.8696-1-jeffv@google.com/T/#u (local)
although that patch was rejected for other reasons.

Another example was when we introduced fine-grained distinctions
for all 
network address families, commit
da69a5306ab92e07224da54aafee8b1dccf024f6.

The new policy capability also needs to be defined in libsepol for
use 
by the policy compiler; an example can be seen in:
https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20170714164801.6346-1-sds@tycho.nsa.gov/ (local)

Then future policies can declare the policy capability when they
are 
ready to start using the new permissions instead of the old.
quoted
Thanks,
David
---
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 116b4d644f68..c8db5235b01f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -6556,6 +6556,7 @@ static int
selinux_key_permission(key_ref_t 
key_ref,
  {
      struct key *key;
      struct key_security_struct *ksec;
+    unsigned oldstyle_perm;
      u32 sid;
      /* if no specific permissions are requested, we skip the
@@ -6564,13 +6565,26 @@ static int
selinux_key_permission(key_ref_t 
key_ref,
      if (perm == 0)
          return 0;
+    oldstyle_perm = perm & (KEY_NEED_VIEW | KEY_NEED_READ | 
KEY_NEED_WRITE |
+                KEY_NEED_SEARCH | KEY_NEED_LINK);
+    if (perm & KEY_NEED_SETSEC)
+        oldstyle_perm |= OLD_KEY_NEED_SETATTR;
+    if (perm & KEY_NEED_INVAL)
+        oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_SEARCH;
+    if (perm & KEY_NEED_REVOKE && !(perm &
OLD_KEY_NEED_SETATTR))
+        oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_WRITE;
+    if (perm & KEY_NEED_JOIN)
+        oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_SEARCH;
+    if (perm & KEY_NEED_CLEAR)
+        oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_WRITE;
+
I don't know offhand if this ensures that the same SELinux
permission is 
always checked as it would have been previously for the same 
operation+arguments.  That's what you have to preserve for
existing 
policies.
As Richard pointed out in his email, your key-acl series replaces
two 
different old permissions (LINK, SEARCH) with a single permission
(JOIN) 
in different callers, so by the time we reach the SELinux hook we
cannot 
map it back unambiguously and provide full backward
compatibility.  The 
REVOKE case also seems fragile although there you seem to distinguish
by 
sometimes passing in OLD_KEY_NEED_SETATTR and sometimes not?  You'll 
have to fix the JOIN case to avoid userspace breakage.

You may want to go ahead and explicitly translate all of the
KEY_NEED 
permissions to SELinux permissions rather than passing the key 
permissions directly here to avoid requiring that the values always 
match.  The SELinux permission symbols are of the form
CLASS__PERMISSION 
(NB double underscore), e.g. KEY__SETATTR, generated automatically
from 
the security/selinux/include/classmap.h tables to the 
security/selinux/av_permissions.h generated header. Most hooks
perform 
such translation, e.g. file_mask_to_av().  You will almost certainly 
need to do this if/when you introduce support for the new permissions
to 
SELinux.

This problem has now been fixed in [1].
It passes the current selinux-test-suite (except test/fs_filesystem
regression).

As the fix now includes a new 'key_perms' policy capability to allow
use of the extended key permissions, I've updated libsepol and the
selinux-testsuite test/keys to test these.

I'll submit two RFC patches that will allow [1] to be tested with
'key_perms' true or false.

[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/commit/?h=keys-next


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