[PATCH v3 3/8] security: dma-buf: Add dma_buf_charge_task LSM hook
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From: Albert Esteve <hidden>
Date: 2026-10-27 15:03:48
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cgroups, dri-devel, linux-doc, linux-kselftest, linux-media, linux-mm, lkml, op-tee, selinux
Subsystem:
control group - memory resource controller (memcg), memory management, security subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton, Paul Moore, James Morris, "Serge E. Hallyn", Linus Torvalds
Revision v3 (2 revisions archived).
Revisions (2)
- v2
- v3 current [diff against previous]
DMA_HEAP_IOCTL_ALLOC accepts a charge_fd field that, when set, causes the allocation to be charged to an arbitrary process's cgroup rather than the caller's. Without an access-control point, any process that holds a handle to a dma-heap device node can charge unlimited memory to any other process's cgroup, potentially exhausting that cgroup's limit and triggering OOM kills independent of the victim's own activity or privileges. Add security_dma_buf_charge_task(), called in mem_cgroup_get_from_fd() when charge_fd refers to another process. The hook receives the credentials of the allocating process (from) and the credentials of the process whose cgroup will be charged (to), giving security modules a controlled enforcement point for cross-cgroup dma-buf attribution policy. When CONFIG_SECURITY is not set the hook compiles to an inline returning 0, adding no overhead to the fast path. Signed-off-by: Albert Esteve <redacted> --- include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 1 + include/linux/security.h | 7 +++++++ mm/memcontrol.c | 11 +++++++++++ security/security.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
index 65c9609ec207..0f1138e16dbe 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ LSM_HOOK(int, 0, capset, struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, const kernel_cap_t *permitted) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, capable, const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap, unsigned int opts) +LSM_HOOK(int, 0, dma_buf_charge_task, const struct cred *from, const struct cred *to) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, quotactl, int cmds, int type, int id, const struct super_block *sb) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, quota_on, struct dentry *dentry) LSM_HOOK(int, 0, syslog, int type)
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 153e9043058f..89a35eb07b8c 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ int security_capable(const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap, unsigned int opts); +int security_dma_buf_charge_task(const struct cred *from, const struct cred *to); int security_quotactl(int cmds, int type, int id, const struct super_block *sb); int security_quota_on(struct dentry *dentry); int security_syslog(int type);
@@ -701,6 +702,12 @@ static inline int security_capable(const struct cred *cred, return cap_capable(cred, ns, cap, opts); } +static inline int security_dma_buf_charge_task(const struct cred *from, + const struct cred *to) +{ + return 0; +} + static inline int security_quotactl(int cmds, int type, int id, const struct super_block *sb) {
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index f66254f52b99..ad195cfd1b5f 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ #include <linux/lockdep.h> #include <linux/resume_user_mode.h> #include <linux/psi.h> +#include <linux/security.h> #include <linux/seq_buf.h> #include <linux/sched/isolation.h> #include <linux/kmemleak.h>
@@ -5672,11 +5673,13 @@ void mem_cgroup_flush_workqueue(void) struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_get_from_fd(int fd) { struct cgroup_subsys_state *css; + const struct cred *tcred; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; struct cgroup *cgrp; struct task_struct *task; struct mm_struct *mm; unsigned int pidfd_flags; + int ret; cgrp = cgroup_get_from_fd(fd); if (!IS_ERR(cgrp)) {
@@ -5698,6 +5701,14 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_get_from_fd(int fd) if (IS_ERR(task)) return ERR_CAST(task); + tcred = get_task_cred(task); + ret = security_dma_buf_charge_task(current_cred(), tcred); + put_cred(tcred); + if (ret) { + put_task_struct(task); + return ERR_PTR(ret); + } + mm = get_task_mm(task); put_task_struct(task); if (!mm)
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 2ee276ab15c5..4a16e4076aab 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c@@ -660,6 +660,22 @@ int security_capable(const struct cred *cred, return call_int_hook(capable, cred, ns, cap, opts); } +/** + * security_dma_buf_charge_task() - Check if cross-cgroup dma-heap charging is allowed + * @from: credentials of the allocating process + * @to: credentials of the process to charge + * + * Check whether the process with credentials @from is allowed to allocate + * dma-heap memory and charge it to the cgroup of the process with credentials + * @to. + * + * Return: Returns 0 if permission is granted. + */ +int security_dma_buf_charge_task(const struct cred *from, const struct cred *to) +{ + return call_int_hook(dma_buf_charge_task, from, to); +} + /** * security_quotactl() - Check if a quotactl() syscall is allowed for this fs * @cmds: commands
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