Thread (13 messages) 13 messages, 5 authors, 2022-01-28

Re: [PATCH v2] LSM: general protection fault in legacy_parse_param

From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Date: 2022-01-28 08:59:23
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml, selinux

On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 08:51:44AM -0800, Casey Schaufler wrote:
The usual LSM hook "bail on fail" scheme doesn't work for cases where
a security module may return an error code indicating that it does not
recognize an input.  In this particular case Smack sees a mount option
that it recognizes, and returns 0. A call to a BPF hook follows, which
returns -ENOPARAM, which confuses the caller because Smack has processed
its data.

The SELinux hook incorrectly returns 1 on success. There was a time
when this was correct, however the current expectation is that it
return 0 on success. This is repaired.

Reported-by: syzbot+d1e3b1d92d25abf97943@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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Looks good,
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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