Re: [PATCH bpf-next v5 5/7] bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks
From: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Date: 2020-03-24 14:50:26
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:42 AM KP Singh [off-list ref] wrote:
On 24-Mär 10:37, Stephen Smalley wrote:quoted
On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 9:52 PM KP Singh [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
On 23-Mär 18:13, Casey Schaufler wrote:quoted
Have you given up on the "BPF must be last" requirement?Yes, we dropped it for as the BPF programs require CAP_SYS_ADMIN anwyays so the position ~shouldn't~ matter. (based on some of the discussions we had on the BPF_MODIFY_RETURN patches). However, This can be added later (in a separate patch) if really deemed necessary.It matters for SELinux, as I previously explained. A process that has CAP_SYS_ADMIN is not assumed to be able to circumvent MAC policy. And executing prior to SELinux allows the bpf program to access and potentially leak to userspace information that wouldn't be visible to the process itself. However, I thought you were handling the order issue by putting it last in the list of lsms?We can still do that if it does not work for SELinux. Would it be okay to add bpf as LSM_ORDER_LAST? LSMs like Landlock can then add LSM_ORDER_UNPRIVILEGED to even end up after bpf?
I guess the question is whether we need an explicit LSM_ORDER_LAST or can just handle it via the default values for the lsm= parameter, where you are already placing bpf last IIUC? If someone can mess with the kernel boot parameters, they already have options to mess with SELinux, so it is no worse...