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David Howells d84f4f992c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials
Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
access or modify its own credentials.

A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
execve().

With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
and committed using something like the following sequence of events:

	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
	int ret = blah(new);
	if (ret < 0) {
		abort_creds(new);
		return ret;
	}
	return commit_creds(new);

There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
the keys in a keyring in use by another task.

To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
modified, except under special circumstances:

  (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.

  (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.

The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
added by a later patch).

This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
testsuite.

This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:

 (1) execve().

     This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
     security code rather than altering the current creds directly.

 (2) Temporary credential overrides.

     do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
     temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
     preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
     on the thread being dumped.

     This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
     credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
     the task's objective credentials.

 (3) LSM interface.

     A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:

     (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
     (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()

     	 Removed in favour of security_capset().

     (*) security_capset(), ->capset()

     	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
     	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
     	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
     	 new creds, are now const.

     (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()

     	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
     	 killed if it's an error.

     (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()

     	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().

     (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()

     	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()

     	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.

     (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()

     	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
     	 security by commit_creds().

     (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()

     	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().

     (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()

     	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
     	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
     	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
     	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().

     (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()

     	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
     	 directly to init's credentials.

	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.

     (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
     (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()

     	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
     	 refer to the security context.

 (4) sys_capset().

     This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
     calls have been merged.

 (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().

     This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
     commit_thread() to point that way.

 (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()

     __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
     beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
     user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
     successful.

     switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
     folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
     __sigqueue_alloc().

 (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.

     The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
     abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
     it.

     security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
     guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.

     The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().

     Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
     commit_creds().

     The get functions all simply access the data directly.

 (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().

     security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
     want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
     rather than through an argument.

     Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
     if it doesn't end up using it.

 (9) Keyrings.

     A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:

     (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
     	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
     	 They may want separating out again later.

     (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
     	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.

     (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
     	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
     	 keyring.

     (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
     	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.

     (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
     	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
     	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).

(10) Usermode helper.

     The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
     subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
     of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
     after it has been cloned.

     call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
     call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
     special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
     specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.

     call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
     supplied keyring as the new session keyring.

(11) SELinux.

     SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
     interface changes mentioned above:

     (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
     	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
     	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
     	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
     	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
     	 lock.

(12) is_single_threaded().

     This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
     a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
     wants to use it too.

     The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
     with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
     to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).

(13) nfsd.

     The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
     credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
     down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
     in this series have been applied.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
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lzo lzo: use get/put_unaligned_* helpers 2008-07-25 10:53:26 -07:00
reed_solomon lib: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h 2008-04-18 22:17:17 -04:00
zlib_deflate lib/: Spelling fixes 2008-02-03 17:48:52 +02:00
zlib_inflate [ZLIB]: Fix external builds of zlib_inflate code. 2007-10-11 22:17:20 -07:00
.gitignore Add some basic .gitignore files 2005-10-18 08:26:15 -07:00
argv_split.c LIB: Replace inappropriate include of <linux/bug.h> 2007-10-20 00:26:10 +02:00
audit.c [PATCH] audit signal recipients 2007-05-11 05:38:25 -04:00
bcd.c rtc: BCD codeshrink 2008-07-24 10:47:33 -07:00
bitmap.c Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-23 08:20:34 -07:00
bitrev.c lib: export bitrev16 2008-06-06 11:29:10 -07:00
bug.c lib: taint kernel in common report_bug() WARN path. 2008-07-04 10:40:05 -07:00
bust_spinlocks.c handle recursive calls to bust_spinlocks() 2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
check_signature.c uninline check_signature() 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
cmdline.c generic, memparse(): constify argument 2008-07-28 15:05:23 +02:00
cpumask.c x86: Add performance variants of cpumask operators 2008-05-23 18:23:38 +02:00
crc-ccitt.c [PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/crc*.c 2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
crc-itu-t.c CRC ITU-T V.41 2007-05-10 18:24:13 +02:00
crc-t10dif.c [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC 2008-07-12 08:22:32 -05:00
crc7.c CRC7 support 2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
crc16.c [PATCH] kernel-doc for lib/crc*.c 2006-06-25 10:01:20 -07:00
crc32.c lib/: Spelling fixes 2008-02-03 17:48:52 +02:00
crc32defs.h
ctype.c
debug_locks.c debug_locks: set oops_in_progress if we will log messages. 2008-08-01 10:46:43 +02:00
debugobjects.c debugobjects: fix lockdep warning 2008-09-01 09:47:16 +02:00
dec_and_lock.c [PATCH] atomic: dec_and_lock use atomic primitives 2006-01-08 20:13:48 -08:00
devres.c [POWERPC] devres: Add devm_ioremap_prot() 2008-05-05 16:47:14 +10:00
div64.c add an inlined version of iter_div_u64_rem 2008-06-12 10:47:58 +02:00
dump_stack.c
dynamic_printk.c Driver core: fix 'dynamic_debug' cmd line parameter 2008-10-29 15:03:50 -07:00
extable.c lib/extable.c: remove an expensive integer divide in search_extable() 2008-02-06 10:41:08 -08:00
fault-inject.c libfs: allow error return from simple attributes 2008-02-08 09:22:34 -08:00
find_next_bit.c bitops: remove "optimizations" 2008-04-29 08:11:16 -07:00
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
halfmd4.c
hexdump.c lib: create common ascii hex array 2008-05-14 19:11:14 -07:00
hweight.c remove asm/bitops.h includes 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
idr.c SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
inflate.c inflate: refactor inflate malloc code 2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
int_sqrt.c [PATCH] lib: Fix bug in int_sqrt() for 64 bit longs 2006-02-03 08:32:08 -08:00
iomap.c Use WARN() in lib/ 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
iomap_copy.c [PATCH] add __iowrite64_copy 2006-06-20 20:24:58 -07:00
iommu-helper.c introduce generic iommu_num_pages function 2008-10-16 11:21:33 -07:00
ioremap.c lib/ioremap.c should #include <linux/io.h> 2007-10-17 08:42:50 -07:00
irq_regs.c [PATCH] irq_reqs: export __irq_regs 2006-10-06 08:53:40 -07:00
is_single_threaded.c CRED: Rename is_single_threaded() to is_wq_single_threaded() 2008-11-14 10:39:21 +11:00
kasprintf.c lib: move kasprintf to a separate file 2007-07-31 15:39:39 -07:00
Kconfig Kconfig: eliminate "def_bool n" constructs 2008-10-16 11:21:31 -07:00
Kconfig.debug block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT 2008-10-17 08:46:56 +02:00
Kconfig.kgdb kgdb: remove the requirement for CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER 2008-08-01 08:39:34 -05:00
kernel_lock.c BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation 2008-05-10 20:58:02 -07:00
klist.c klist: don't iterate over deleted entries 2008-10-09 08:56:04 +02:00
kobject.c kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS 2008-10-16 09:24:52 -07:00
kobject_uevent.c Use WARN() in lib/ 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
kref.c kref: add kref_set() 2008-01-24 20:40:05 -08:00
libcrc32c.c [LIB] crc32c: Keep intermediate crc state in cpu order 2007-11-08 21:34:09 +08:00
list_debug.c list debugging: use WARN() instead of BUG() 2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00
lmb.c lmb: Fix reserved region handling in lmb_enforce_memory_limit(). 2008-08-15 19:57:57 -07:00
locking-selftest-hardirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-mutex.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-rlock.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-rsem.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-softirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-spin.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-wlock.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest-wsem.h [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self tests 2006-07-03 15:27:03 -07:00
locking-selftest.c [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failures 2006-12-07 08:39:43 -08:00
Makefile CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials 2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
parser.c vfs: Use const for kernel parser table 2008-10-13 10:10:37 -07:00
percpu_counter.c percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() 2008-10-09 12:50:59 -04:00
plist.c Use WARN() in lib/ 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
prio_heap.c Fix cpusets update_cpumask 2007-10-19 11:53:41 -07:00
prio_tree.c
proportions.c mm: bdi: allow setting a maximum for the bdi dirty limit 2008-04-30 08:29:50 -07:00
radix-tree.c SL*B: drop kmem cache argument from constructor 2008-07-26 12:00:07 -07:00
random32.c random32: seeding improvement 2008-07-30 16:29:19 -07:00
ratelimit.c __ratelimit() cpu flags can't be static 2008-07-28 16:30:20 -07:00
rbtree.c [PATCH] rbtree: fixed reversed RB_EMPTY_NODE and rb_next/prev 2006-09-30 20:26:56 +02:00
reciprocal_div.c [PATCH] SLAB: use a multiply instead of a divide in obj_to_index() 2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
rwsem-spinlock.c lib: remove fastcall from lib/* 2008-02-08 09:22:31 -08:00
rwsem.c x86: fix UML and -regparm=3 2008-01-30 13:33:00 +01:00
scatterlist.c sg: disable interrupts inside sg_copy_buffer 2008-09-11 18:35:39 +02:00
sha1.c [PATCH] Numerous fixes to kernel-doc info in source files. 2007-02-11 10:51:32 -08:00
show_mem.c lib: generic show_mem() 2008-07-26 12:00:10 -07:00
smp_processor_id.c cpumask: change cpumask_of_cpu_ptr to use new cpumask_of_cpu 2008-07-26 16:40:33 +02:00
sort.c lib/sort.c optimization 2007-10-17 08:42:52 -07:00
spinlock_debug.c Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks 2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
string.c Add a new sysfs_streq() string comparison function 2008-05-01 08:03:59 -07:00
string_helpers.c [SCSI] lib: string_get_size(): don't hang on zero; no decimals on exact 2008-10-23 11:42:20 -05:00
swiotlb.c swiotlb: remove panic for alloc_coherent failure 2008-10-23 21:54:38 +02:00
syscall.c task_current_syscall 2008-07-26 12:00:10 -07:00
textsearch.c remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib 2008-07-22 19:24:31 +10:00
ts_bm.c textsearch: ts_bm: support case insensitive searching in Boyer-Moore algorithm 2008-07-08 02:37:54 -07:00
ts_fsm.c textsearch: ts_fsm: return error on request for case insensitive search 2008-07-08 02:38:27 -07:00
ts_kmp.c textsearch: ts_kmp: support case insensitive searching in Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm 2008-07-08 02:38:09 -07:00
vsprintf.c Implement %pR to print struct resource content 2008-10-20 09:12:32 -07:00