From c0ab6e56dcb7ca9903d460247cb464e769ae6e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Casey Schaufler Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 18:06:39 -0700 Subject: Smack: Implement lock security mode Linux file locking does not follow the same rules as other mechanisms. Even though it is a write operation a process can set a read lock on files which it has open only for read access. Two programs with read access to a file can use read locks to communicate. This is not acceptable in a Mandatory Access Control environment. Smack treats setting a read lock as the write operation that it is. Unfortunately, many programs assume that setting a read lock is a read operation. These programs are unhappy in the Smack environment. This patch introduces a new access mode (lock) to address this problem. A process with lock access to a file can set a read lock. A process with write access to a file can set a read lock or a write lock. This prevents a situation where processes are granted write access just so they can set read locks. Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler --- security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'security/smack/smack_lsm.c') diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c index 8825375cc031..88d366e55793 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c @@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ static int smack_file_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, * @file: the object * @cmd: unused * - * Returns 0 if current has write access, error code otherwise + * Returns 0 if current has lock access, error code otherwise */ static int smack_file_lock(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd) { @@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@ static int smack_file_lock(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd) smk_ad_init(&ad, __func__, LSM_AUDIT_DATA_PATH); smk_ad_setfield_u_fs_path(&ad, file->f_path); - return smk_curacc(file->f_security, MAY_WRITE, &ad); + return smk_curacc(file->f_security, MAY_LOCK, &ad); } /** @@ -1178,8 +1178,13 @@ static int smack_file_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, switch (cmd) { case F_GETLK: + break; case F_SETLK: case F_SETLKW: + smk_ad_init(&ad, __func__, LSM_AUDIT_DATA_PATH); + smk_ad_setfield_u_fs_path(&ad, file->f_path); + rc = smk_curacc(file->f_security, MAY_LOCK, &ad); + break; case F_SETOWN: case F_SETSIG: smk_ad_init(&ad, __func__, LSM_AUDIT_DATA_PATH); -- cgit v1.2.3