Re: [PATCH v20 14/23] LSM: Ensure the correct LSM context releaser

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:16 AM Casey Schaufler [off-list ref] wrote:

Add a new lsmcontext data structure to hold all the information
about a "security context", including the string, its size and
which LSM allocated the string. The allocation information is
necessary because LSMs have different policies regarding the
lifecycle of these strings. SELinux allocates and destroys
them on each use, whereas Smack provides a pointer to an entry
in a list that never goes away.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <redacted>
Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
 drivers/android/binder.c                | 10 ++++---
 fs/ceph/xattr.c                         |  6 ++++-
 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c                       |  8 ++++--
 fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c                       |  7 +++--
 include/linux/security.h                | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/net/scm.h                       |  5 +++-
 kernel/audit.c                          | 14 +++++++---
 kernel/auditsc.c                        | 12 ++++++---
 net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c                  |  4 ++-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c    |  4 ++-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_standalone.c |  4 ++-
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_queue.c         | 13 ++++++---
 net/netlabel/netlabel_unlabeled.c       | 19 +++++++++++---
 net/netlabel/netlabel_user.c            |  4 ++-
 security/security.c                     | 11 ++++----
 15 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)

One small comment below, but otherwise ...

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

+/**
+ * lsmcontext_init - initialize an lsmcontext structure.
+ * @cp: Pointer to the context to initialize
+ * @context: Initial context, or NULL
+ * @size: Size of context, or 0
+ * @slot: Which LSM provided the context
+ *
+ * Fill in the lsmcontext from the provided information.
+ * This is a scaffolding function that will be removed when
+ * lsmcontext integration is complete.
+ */
+static inline void lsmcontext_init(struct lsmcontext *cp, char *context,
+                                  u32 size, int slot)
+{
+       cp->slot = slot;
+       cp->context = context;
+       cp->len = size;
+}

Here is another case where some of the intermediate code, and perhaps
some of the final code, can probably be simplified if
lsmcontext_init() returns the lsmcontext pointer.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com