On Sun, Sep 15, 2024 at 02:31:30PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote:

From: Wedson Almeida Filho <redacted>

Add a wrapper around `struct cred` called `Credential`, and provide
functionality to get the `Credential` associated with a `File`.

Rust Binder must check the credentials of processes when they attempt to
perform various operations, and these checks usually take a
`&Credential` as parameter. The security_binder_set_context_mgr function
would be one example. This patch is necessary to access these security_*
methods from Rust.

This Rust abstraction makes the following assumptions about the C side:
* `struct cred` is refcounted with `get_cred`/`put_cred`.

Yes

* It's okay to transfer a `struct cred` across threads, that is, you do
  not need to call `put_cred` on the same thread as where you called
  `get_cred`.

Yes

* The `euid` field of a `struct cred` never changes after
  initialization.

"after initialization", yes. The bprm cred during exec is special in
that it gets updated (bprm_fill_uid) before it is installed into current
via commit_creds() in begin_new_exec() (the point of no return for
exec).

* The `f_cred` field of a `struct file` never changes after
  initialization.

Yes.

Signed-off-by: Wedson Almeida Filho <redacted>
Co-developed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>

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Kees Cook