On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 4:57 PM Casey Schaufler <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3/18/2021 1:42 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > Of the three LSMs that implement the security_task_getsecid() LSM > > hook, all three LSMs provide the task's objective security > > credentials. This turns out to be unfortunate as most of the hook's > > callers seem to expect the task's subjective credentials, although > > a small handful of callers do correctly expect the objective > > credentials. > > > > This patch is the first step towards fixing the problem: it splits > > the existing security_task_getsecid() hook into two variants, one > > for the subjective creds, one for the objective creds. > > > > void security_task_getsecid_subj(struct task_struct *p, > > u32 *secid); > > void security_task_getsecid_obj(struct task_struct *p, > > u32 *secid); > > > > While this patch does fix all of the callers to use the correct > > variant, in order to keep this patch focused on the callers and to > > ease review, the LSMs continue to use the same implementation for > > both hooks. The net effect is that this patch should not change > > the behavior of the kernel in any way, it will be up to the latter > > LSM specific patches in this series to change the hook > > implementations and return the correct credentials. > > > > Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]> (IMA) > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <[email protected]>
Thanks Casey. -- paul moore www.paul-moore.com -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
