- 14 11月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 David Howells 提交于
Alter the use of the key instantiation and negation functions' link-to-keyring arguments. Currently this specifies a keyring in the target process to link the key into, creating the keyring if it doesn't exist. This, however, can be a problem for copy-on-write credentials as it means that the instantiating process can alter the credentials of the requesting process. This patch alters the behaviour such that: (1) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given a specific keyring by ID (ringid >= 0), then that keyring will be used. (2) If keyctl_instantiate_key() or keyctl_negate_key() are given one of the special constants that refer to the requesting process's keyrings (KEY_SPEC_*_KEYRING, all <= 0), then: (a) If sys_request_key() was given a keyring to use (destringid) then the key will be attached to that keyring. (b) If sys_request_key() was given a NULL keyring, then the key being instantiated will be attached to the default keyring as set by keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(). (3) No extra link will be made. Decision point (1) follows current behaviour, and allows those instantiators who've searched for a specifically named keyring in the requestor's keyring so as to partition the keys by type to still have their named keyrings. Decision point (2) allows the requestor to make sure that the key or keys that get produced by request_key() go where they want, whilst allowing the instantiator to request that the key is retained. This is mainly useful for situations where the instantiator makes a secondary request, the key for which should be retained by the initial requestor: +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ | | | | | | | Requestor |------->| Instantiator |------->| Instantiator | | | | | | | +-----------+ +--------------+ +--------------+ request_key() request_key() This might be useful, for example, in Kerberos, where the requestor requests a ticket, and then the ticket instantiator requests the TGT, which someone else then has to go and fetch. The TGT, however, should be retained in the keyrings of the requestor, not the first instantiator. To make this explict an extra special keyring constant is also added. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Disperse the bits of linux/key_ui.h as the reason they were put here (keyfs) didn't get in. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 David Howells 提交于
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 11 11月, 2008 4 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
check when determining if a process has additional powers to override memory limits or when trying to read/write illegal file labels. Use the new noaudit call instead. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
make an A or B type decision instead of a security decision. Currently this is the case at least for filesystems when deciding if a process can use the reserved 'root' blocks and for the case of things like the oom algorithm determining if processes are root processes and should be less likely to be killed. These types of security system requests should not be audited or logged since they are not really security decisions. It would be possible to solve this problem like the vm_enough_memory security check did by creating a new LSM interface and moving all of the policy into that interface but proves the needlessly bloat the LSM and provide complex indirection. This merely allows those decisions to be made where they belong and to not flood logs or printk with denials for thing that are not security decisions. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
non-zero pE we will crate a new audit record which contains the entire set of known information about the executable in question, fP, fI, fE, fversion and includes the process's pE, pI, pP. Before and after the bprm capability are applied. This record type will only be emitted from execve syscalls. an example of making ping use fcaps instead of setuid: setcap "cat_net_raw+pe" /bin/ping type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): arch=c000003e syscall=59 success=yes exit=0 a0=1457f30 a1=14606b0 a2=1463940 a3=321b770a70 items=2 ppid=2929 pid=2963 auid=0 uid=500 gid=500 euid=500 suid=500 fsuid=500 egid=500 sgid=500 fsgid=500 tty=pts0 ses=3 comm="ping" exe="/bin/ping" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=UNKNOWN[1321] msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): fver=2 fp=0000000000002000 fi=0000000000000000 fe=1 old_pp=0000000000000000 old_pi=0000000000000000 old_pe=0000000000000000 new_pp=0000000000002000 new_pi=0000000000000000 new_pe=0000000000002000 type=EXECVE msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): argc=2 a0="ping" a1="127.0.0.1" type=CWD msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): cwd="/home/test" type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=0 name="/bin/ping" inode=49256 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ping_exec_t:s0 cap_fp=0000000000002000 cap_fe=1 cap_fver=2 type=PATH msg=audit(1225742021.015:236): item=1 name=(null) inode=507915 dev=fd:00 mode=0100755 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=system_u:object_r:ld_so_t:s0 Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
functions which retrieve fcaps information from disk. This information is necessary so fcaps information can be collected and recorded by the audit system. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 09 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
Currently when SELinux has not been updated to handle a netlink message type the operation is denied with EINVAL. This patch will leave the audit/warning message so things get fixed but if policy chose to allow unknowns this will allow the netlink operation. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 06 11月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
Add a no_file_caps boot option when file capabilities are compiled into the kernel (CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y). This allows distributions to ship a kernel with file capabilities compiled in, without forcing users to use (and understand and trust) them. When no_file_caps is specified at boot, then when a process executes a file, any file capabilities stored with that file will not be used in the calculation of the process' new capability sets. This means that booting with the no_file_caps boot option will not be the same as booting a kernel with file capabilities compiled out - in particular a task with CAP_SETPCAP will not have any chance of passing capabilities to another task (which isn't "really" possible anyway, and which may soon by killed altogether by David Howells in any case), and it will instead be able to put new capabilities in its pI. However since fI will always be empty and pI is masked with fI, it gains the task nothing. We also support the extra prctl options, setting securebits and dropping capabilities from the per-process bounding set. The other remaining difference is that killpriv, task_setscheduler, setioprio, and setnice will continue to be hooked. That will be noticable in the case where a root task changed its uid while keeping some caps, and another task owned by the new uid tries to change settings for the more privileged task. Changelog: Nov 05 2008: (v4) trivial port on top of always-start-\ with-clear-caps patch Sep 23 2008: nixed file_caps_enabled when file caps are not compiled in as it isn't used. Document no_file_caps in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Michal Schmidt 提交于
In enforcing mode '/sbin/ip addrlabel' results in a SELinux error: type=SELINUX_ERR msg=audit(1225698822.073:42): SELinux: unrecognized netlink message type=74 for sclass=43 The problem is missing RTM_*ADDRLABEL entries in SELinux's netlink message types table. Reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469423Signed-off-by: NMichal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 05 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
SELinux has long been calling wake_up_interruptible() on current->parent->signal->wait_chldexit without holding any locks. It appears that this operation should hold the tasklist_lock to dereference current->parent and we should hold the siglock when waking up the signal->wait_chldexit. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 02 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Serge Hallyn 提交于
While Linux doesn't honor setuid on scripts. However, it mistakenly behaves differently for file capabilities. This patch fixes that behavior by making sure that get_file_caps() begins with empty bprm->caps_*. That way when a script is loaded, its bprm->caps_* may be filled when binfmt_misc calls prepare_binprm(), but they will be cleared again when binfmt_elf calls prepare_binprm() next to read the interpreter's file capabilities. Signed-off-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 01 11月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
SELinux has wrongly (since 2004) had an incorrect test for an empty tty->tty_files list. With an empty list selinux would be pointing to part of the tty struct itself and would then proceed to dereference that value and again dereference that result. An F10 change to plymouth on a ppc64 system is actually currently triggering this bug. This patch uses list_empty() to handle empty lists rather than looking at a meaningless location. [note, this fixes the oops reported in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469079] Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 31 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Alan Cox 提交于
Junjiro R. Okajima reported a problem where knfsd crashes if you are using it to export shmemfs objects and run strict overcommit. In this situation the current->mm based modifier to the overcommit goes through a NULL pointer. We could simply check for NULL and skip the modifier but we've caught other real bugs in the past from mm being NULL here - cases where we did need a valid mm set up (eg the exec bug about a year ago). To preserve the checks and get the logic we want shuffle the checking around and add a new helper to the vm_ security wrappers Also fix a current->mm reference in nommu that should use the passed mm [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build] Reported-by: NJunjiro R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 30 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Eric Paris 提交于
Some operations, like searching a directory path or connecting a unix domain socket, make explicit calls into inode_permission. Our choices are to either try to come up with a signature for all of the explicit calls to inode_permission and do not check open on those, or to move the open checks to dentry_open where we know this is always an open operation. This patch moves the checks to dentry_open. Signed-off-by: NEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 20 10月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Lai Jiangshan 提交于
Since we introduced rcu for read side, spin_lock is used only for update. But we always hold cgroup_lock() when update, so spin_lock() is not need. Additional cleanup: 1) include linux/rcupdate.h explicitly 2) remove unused variable cur_devcgroup in devcgroup_update_access() Signed-off-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: N"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Li Zefan 提交于
This saves 40 bytes on my x86_32 box. Signed-off-by: NLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: NSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 14 10月, 2008 3 次提交
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由 Steven Whitehouse 提交于
This is a much better version of a previous patch to make the parser tables constant. Rather than changing the typedef, we put the "const" in all the various places where its required, allowing the __initconst exception for nfsroot which was the cause of the previous trouble. This was posted for review some time ago and I believe its been in -mm since then. Signed-off-by: NSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alan Cox 提交于
Currently it is sometimes locked by the tty mutex and sometimes by the sighand lock. The latter is in fact correct and now we can hand back referenced objects we can fix this up without problems around sleeping functions. Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Alan Cox 提交于
We now return a kref covered tty reference. That ensures the tty structure doesn't go away when you have a return from get_current_tty. This is not enough to protect you from most of the resources being freed behind your back - yet. [Updated to include fixes for SELinux problems found by Andrew Morton and an s390 leak found while debugging the former] Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 13 10月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Mimi Zohar 提交于
Discussion on the mailing list questioned the use of these magic values in userspace, concluding these values are already exported to userspace via statfs and their correct/incorrect usage is left up to the userspace application. - Move special fs magic number definitions to magic.h - Add magic.h include Signed-off-by: NMimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 10 10月, 2008 11 次提交
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
This patch provides support for including the LSM's secid in addition to the LSM's MLS information in the NetLabel security attributes structure. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
Previous work enabled the use of address based NetLabel selectors, which while highly useful, brought the potential for additional per-packet overhead when used. This patch attempts to mitigate some of that overhead by caching the NetLabel security attribute struct within the SELinux socket security structure. This should help eliminate the need to recreate the NetLabel secattr structure for each packet resulting in less overhead. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
Previous work enabled the use of address based NetLabel selectors, which while highly useful, brought the potential for additional per-packet overhead when used. This patch attempts to solve that by applying NetLabel socket labels when sockets are connect()'d. This should alleviate the per-packet NetLabel labeling for all connected sockets (yes, it even works for connected DGRAM sockets). Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
This patch builds upon the new NetLabel address selector functionality by providing the NetLabel KAPI and CIPSO engine support needed to enable the new packet-based labeling. The only new addition to the NetLabel KAPI at this point is shown below: * int netlbl_skbuff_setattr(skb, family, secattr) ... and is designed to be called from a Netfilter hook after the packet's IP header has been populated such as in the FORWARD or LOCAL_OUT hooks. This patch also provides the necessary SELinux hooks to support this new functionality. Smack support is not currently included due to uncertainty regarding the permissions needed to expand the Smack network access controls. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
NetLabel has always had a list of backpointers in the CIPSO DOI definition structure which pointed to the NetLabel LSM domain mapping structures which referenced the CIPSO DOI struct. The rationale for this was that when an administrator removed a CIPSO DOI from the system all of the associated NetLabel LSM domain mappings should be removed as well; a list of backpointers made this a simple operation. Unfortunately, while the backpointers did make the removal easier they were a bit of a mess from an implementation point of view which was making further development difficult. Since the removal of a CIPSO DOI is a realtively rare event it seems to make sense to remove this backpointer list as the optimization was hurting us more then it was helping. However, we still need to be able to track when a CIPSO DOI definition is being used so replace the backpointer list with a reference count. In order to preserve the current functionality of removing the associated LSM domain mappings when a CIPSO DOI is removed we walk the LSM domain mapping table, removing the relevant entries. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Reviewed-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
Smack needs to call netlbl_skbuff_err() to let NetLabel do the necessary protocol specific error handling. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
At some point I think I messed up and dropped the calls to netlbl_skbuff_err() which are necessary for CIPSO to send error notifications to remote systems. This patch re-introduces the error handling calls into the SELinux code. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
Currently when SELinux fails to allocate memory in security_netlbl_sid_to_secattr() the NetLabel LSM domain field is set to NULL which triggers the default NetLabel LSM domain mapping which may not always be the desired mapping. This patch fixes this by returning an error when the kernel is unable to allocate memory. This could result in more failures on a system with heavy memory pressure but it is the "correct" thing to do. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
It turns out that checking to see if skb->sk is NULL is not a very good indicator of a forwarded packet as some locally generated packets also have skb->sk set to NULL. Fix this by not only checking the skb->sk field but also the IP[6]CB(skb)->flags field for the IP[6]SKB_FORWARDED flag. While we are at it, we are calling selinux_parse_skb() much earlier than we really should resulting in potentially wasted cycles parsing packets for information we might no use; so shuffle the code around a bit to fix this. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
We did the right thing in a few cases but there were several areas where we determined a packet's address family based on the socket's address family which is not the right thing to do since we can get IPv4 packets on IPv6 sockets. This patch fixes these problems by either taking the address family directly from the packet. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
We were doing a lot of extra work in selinux_netlbl_sock_graft() what wasn't necessary so this patch removes that code. It also removes the redundant second argument to selinux_netlbl_sock_setsid() which allows us to simplify a few other functions. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 04 10月, 2008 2 次提交
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
At some point during the 2.6.27 development cycle two new fields were added to the SELinux context structure, a string pointer and a length field. The code in selinux_secattr_to_sid() was not modified and as a result these two fields were left uninitialized which could result in erratic behavior, including kernel panics, when NetLabel is used. This patch fixes the problem by fully initializing the context in selinux_secattr_to_sid() before use and reducing the level of direct context manipulation done to help prevent future problems. Please apply this to the 2.6.27-rcX release stream. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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由 Paul Moore 提交于
At some point during the 2.6.27 development cycle two new fields were added to the SELinux context structure, a string pointer and a length field. The code in selinux_secattr_to_sid() was not modified and as a result these two fields were left uninitialized which could result in erratic behavior, including kernel panics, when NetLabel is used. This patch fixes the problem by fully initializing the context in selinux_secattr_to_sid() before use and reducing the level of direct context manipulation done to help prevent future problems. Please apply this to the 2.6.27-rcX release stream. Signed-off-by: NPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 29 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Stephen Smalley 提交于
As we are not concerned with fine-grained control over reading of symlinks in proc, always use the default proc SID for all proc symlinks. This should help avoid permission issues upon changes to the proc tree as in the /proc/net -> /proc/self/net example. This does not alter labeling of symlinks within /proc/pid directories. ls -Zd /proc/net output before and after the patch should show the difference. Signed-off-by: NStephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 27 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
This reduces the kernel size by 289 bytes. Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: NAndrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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- 14 9月, 2008 1 次提交
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由 Frank Mayhar 提交于
Overview This patch reworks the handling of POSIX CPU timers, including the ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRT timers and rlimit handling. It was put together with the help of Roland McGrath, the owner and original writer of this code. The problem we ran into, and the reason for this rework, has to do with using a profiling timer in a process with a large number of threads. It appears that the performance of the old implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() was at least O(n*3) (where "n" is the number of threads in a process) or worse. Everything is fine with an increasing number of threads until the time taken for that routine to run becomes the same as or greater than the tick time, at which point things degrade rather quickly. This patch fixes bug 9906, "Weird hang with NPTL and SIGPROF." Code Changes This rework corrects the implementation of run_posix_cpu_timers() to make it run in constant time for a particular machine. (Performance may vary between one machine and another depending upon whether the kernel is built as single- or multiprocessor and, in the latter case, depending upon the number of running processors.) To do this, at each tick we now update fields in signal_struct as well as task_struct. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function uses those fields to make its decisions. We define a new structure, "task_cputime," to contain user, system and scheduler times and use these in appropriate places: struct task_cputime { cputime_t utime; cputime_t stime; unsigned long long sum_exec_runtime; }; This is included in the structure "thread_group_cputime," which is a new substructure of signal_struct and which varies for uniprocessor versus multiprocessor kernels. For uniprocessor kernels, it uses "task_cputime" as a simple substructure, while for multiprocessor kernels it is a pointer: struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime totals; }; struct thread_group_cputime { struct task_cputime *totals; }; We also add a new task_cputime substructure directly to signal_struct, to cache the earliest expiration of process-wide timers, and task_cputime also replaces the it_*_expires fields of task_struct (used for earliest expiration of thread timers). The "thread_group_cputime" structure contains process-wide timers that are updated via account_user_time() and friends. In the non-SMP case the structure is a simple aggregator; unfortunately in the SMP case that simplicity was not achievable due to cache-line contention between CPUs (in one measured case performance was actually _worse_ on a 16-cpu system than the same test on a 4-cpu system, due to this contention). For SMP, the thread_group_cputime counters are maintained as a per-cpu structure allocated using alloc_percpu(). The timer functions update only the timer field in the structure corresponding to the running CPU, obtained using per_cpu_ptr(). We define a set of inline functions in sched.h that we use to maintain the thread_group_cputime structure and hide the differences between UP and SMP implementations from the rest of the kernel. The thread_group_cputime_init() function initializes the thread_group_cputime structure for the given task. The thread_group_cputime_alloc() is a no-op for UP; for SMP it calls the out-of-line function thread_group_cputime_alloc_smp() to allocate and fill in the per-cpu structures and fields. The thread_group_cputime_free() function, also a no-op for UP, in SMP frees the per-cpu structures. The thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() function (also a UP no-op) for SMP calls thread_group_cputime_alloc() if the per-cpu structures haven't yet been allocated. The thread_group_cputime() function fills the task_cputime structure it is passed with the contents of the thread_group_cputime fields; in UP it's that simple but in SMP it must also safely check that tsk->signal is non-NULL (if it is it just uses the appropriate fields of task_struct) and, if so, sums the per-cpu values for each online CPU. Finally, the three functions account_group_user_time(), account_group_system_time() and account_group_exec_runtime() are used by timer functions to update the respective fields of the thread_group_cputime structure. Non-SMP operation is trivial and will not be mentioned further. The per-cpu structure is always allocated when a task creates its first new thread, via a call to thread_group_cputime_clone_thread() from copy_signal(). It is freed at process exit via a call to thread_group_cputime_free() from cleanup_signal(). All functions that formerly summed utime/stime/sum_sched_runtime values from from all threads in the thread group now use thread_group_cputime() to snapshot the values in the thread_group_cputime structure or the values in the task structure itself if the per-cpu structure hasn't been allocated. Finally, the code in kernel/posix-cpu-timers.c has changed quite a bit. The run_posix_cpu_timers() function has been split into a fast path and a slow path; the former safely checks whether there are any expired thread timers and, if not, just returns, while the slow path does the heavy lifting. With the dedicated thread group fields, timers are no longer "rebalanced" and the process_timer_rebalance() function and related code has gone away. All summing loops are gone and all code that used them now uses the thread_group_cputime() inline. When process-wide timers are set, the new task_cputime structure in signal_struct is used to cache the earliest expiration; this is checked in the fast path. Performance The fix appears not to add significant overhead to existing operations. It generally performs the same as the current code except in two cases, one in which it performs slightly worse (Case 5 below) and one in which it performs very significantly better (Case 2 below). Overall it's a wash except in those two cases. I've since done somewhat more involved testing on a dual-core Opteron system. Case 1: With no itimer running, for a test with 100,000 threads, the fixed kernel took 1428.5 seconds, 513 seconds more than the unfixed system, all of which was spent in the system. There were twice as many voluntary context switches with the fix as without it. Case 2: With an itimer running at .01 second ticks and 4000 threads (the most an unmodified kernel can handle), the fixed kernel ran the test in eight percent of the time (5.8 seconds as opposed to 70 seconds) and had better tick accuracy (.012 seconds per tick as opposed to .023 seconds per tick). Case 3: A 4000-thread test with an initial timer tick of .01 second and an interval of 10,000 seconds (i.e. a timer that ticks only once) had very nearly the same performance in both cases: 6.3 seconds elapsed for the fixed kernel versus 5.5 seconds for the unfixed kernel. With fewer threads (eight in these tests), the Case 1 test ran in essentially the same time on both the modified and unmodified kernels (5.2 seconds versus 5.8 seconds). The Case 2 test ran in about the same time as well, 5.9 seconds versus 5.4 seconds but again with much better tick accuracy, .013 seconds per tick versus .025 seconds per tick for the unmodified kernel. Since the fix affected the rlimit code, I also tested soft and hard CPU limits. Case 4: With a hard CPU limit of 20 seconds and eight threads (and an itimer running), the modified kernel was very slightly favored in that while it killed the process in 19.997 seconds of CPU time (5.002 seconds of wall time), only .003 seconds of that was system time, the rest was user time. The unmodified kernel killed the process in 20.001 seconds of CPU (5.014 seconds of wall time) of which .016 seconds was system time. Really, though, the results were too close to call. The results were essentially the same with no itimer running. Case 5: With a soft limit of 20 seconds and a hard limit of 2000 seconds (where the hard limit would never be reached) and an itimer running, the modified kernel exhibited worse tick accuracy than the unmodified kernel: .050 seconds/tick versus .028 seconds/tick. Otherwise, performance was almost indistinguishable. With no itimer running this test exhibited virtually identical behavior and times in both cases. In times past I did some limited performance testing. those results are below. On a four-cpu Opteron system without this fix, a sixteen-thread test executed in 3569.991 seconds, of which user was 3568.435s and system was 1.556s. On the same system with the fix, user and elapsed time were about the same, but system time dropped to 0.007 seconds. Performance with eight, four and one thread were comparable. Interestingly, the timer ticks with the fix seemed more accurate: The sixteen-thread test with the fix received 149543 ticks for 0.024 seconds per tick, while the same test without the fix received 58720 for 0.061 seconds per tick. Both cases were configured for an interval of 0.01 seconds. Again, the other tests were comparable. Each thread in this test computed the primes up to 25,000,000. I also did a test with a large number of threads, 100,000 threads, which is impossible without the fix. In this case each thread computed the primes only up to 10,000 (to make the runtime manageable). System time dominated, at 1546.968 seconds out of a total 2176.906 seconds (giving a user time of 629.938s). It received 147651 ticks for 0.015 seconds per tick, still quite accurate. There is obviously no comparable test without the fix. Signed-off-by: NFrank Mayhar <fmayhar@google.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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由 Stephen Smalley 提交于
Update the SELinux entry in MAINTAINERS and drop the obsolete information from the selinux Kconfig help text. Signed-off-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: NJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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