Thread (33 messages) 33 messages, 7 authors, 2020-03-27

Re: [PATCH bpf-next v7 4/8] bpf: lsm: Implement attach, detach and execution

From: Stephen Smalley <hidden>
Date: 2020-03-27 12:26:22
Also in: bpf, lkml

On 3/26/20 8:24 PM, James Morris wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, KP Singh wrote:
quoted
+int bpf_lsm_verify_prog(struct bpf_verifier_log *vlog,
+			const struct bpf_prog *prog)
+{
+	/* Only CAP_MAC_ADMIN users are allowed to make changes to LSM hooks
+	 */
+	if (!capable(CAP_MAC_ADMIN))
+		return -EPERM;
+
Stephen, can you confirm that your concerns around this are resolved
(IIRC, by SELinux implementing a bpf_prog callback) ?
I guess the only residual concern I have is that CAP_MAC_ADMIN means 
something different to SELinux (ability to get/set file security 
contexts unknown to the currently loaded policy), so leaving the 
CAP_MAC_ADMIN check here (versus calling a new security hook here and 
checking CAP_MAC_ADMIN in the implementation of that hook for the 
modules that want that) conflates two very different things.  Prior to 
this patch, there are no users of CAP_MAC_ADMIN outside of individual 
security modules; it is only checked in module-specific logic within 
apparmor, safesetid, selinux, and smack, so the meaning was module-specific.



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