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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-08-13 09:44:57 -0400 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-08-14 11:18:37 +1000 |
| commit | 9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936 (patch) | |
| tree | 7c0dd23f2c98630c426cbd0bfbf5e46cc689091e /include/linux/security.h | |
| parent | a8f80e8ff94ecba629542d9b4b5f5a8ee3eb565c (diff) | |
| download | lwn-9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936.tar.gz lwn-9188499cdb117d86a1ea6b04374095b098d56936.zip | |
security: introducing security_request_module
Calling request_module() will trigger a userspace upcall which will load a
new module into the kernel. This can be a dangerous event if the process
able to trigger request_module() is able to control either the modprobe
binary or the module binary. This patch adds a new security hook to
request_module() which can be used by an LSM to control a processes ability
to call request_module().
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/security.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/security.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 57ead99d2593..1e3dd86eea99 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -678,6 +678,9 @@ static inline void security_free_mnt_opts(struct security_mnt_opts *opts) * @inode points to the inode to use as a reference. * The current task must be the one that nominated @inode. * Return 0 if successful. + * @kernel_module_request: + * Ability to trigger the kernel to automatically upcall to userspace for + * userspace to load a kernel module with the given name. * @task_setuid: * Check permission before setting one or more of the user identity * attributes of the current process. The @flags parameter indicates @@ -1489,6 +1492,7 @@ struct security_operations { void (*cred_commit)(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old); int (*kernel_act_as)(struct cred *new, u32 secid); int (*kernel_create_files_as)(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode); + int (*kernel_module_request)(void); int (*task_setuid) (uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags); int (*task_fix_setuid) (struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags); @@ -1741,6 +1745,7 @@ int security_prepare_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, gfp_t gfp); void security_commit_creds(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old); int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *new, u32 secid); int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode); +int security_kernel_module_request(void); int security_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags); int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags); @@ -2292,6 +2297,11 @@ static inline int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *cred, return 0; } +static inline int security_kernel_module_request(void) +{ + return 0; +} + static inline int security_task_setuid(uid_t id0, uid_t id1, uid_t id2, int flags) { |