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[4/4] selinux: Create new booleans, class and policycap dirs out of tree

Message ID 20200812140907.1102299-5-dburgener@linux.microsoft.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series Update SELinuxfs out of tree and then swapover | expand

Commit Message

Daniel Burgener Aug. 12, 2020, 2:09 p.m. UTC
In order to avoid concurrency issues around selinuxfs resource availability
during policy load, we first create new directories out of tree for
reloaded resources, then swap them in, and finally delete the old versions.

This fix focuses on concurrency in each of the three subtrees swapped, and
not concurrency across the three trees.  This means that it is still possible
that subsequent reads to eg the booleans directory and the class directory
during a policy load could see the old state for one and the new for the other.
The problem of ensuring that policy loads are fully atomic from the perspective
of userspace is larger than what is dealt with here.  This commit focuses on
ensuring that the directories contents always match either the new or the old
policy state from the perspective of userspace.

In the previous implementation, on policy load /sys/fs/selinux is updated
by deleting the previous contents of
/sys/fs/selinux/{class,booleans,policy_capabilities} and then recreating
them.  This means that there is a period of time when the contents of
these directories do not exist which can cause race conditions as
userspace relies on them for information about the policy.  In addition,
it means that error recovery in the event of failure is challenging.

In order to demonstrate the race condition that this series fixes, you
can use the following commands:

while true; do cat /sys/fs/selinux/class/service/perms/status
>/dev/null; done &
while true; do load_policy; done;

In the existing code, this will display errors fairly often as the class
lookup fails.  (In normal operation from systemd, this would result in a
permission check which would be allowed or denied based on policy settings
around unknown object classes.) After applying this patch series you
should expect to no longer see such error messages.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Burgener <dburgener@linux.microsoft.com>
---
 security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 146 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 121 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index f09afdb90ddd..e89e132aeb71 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ 
 #include <linux/fs_context.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
@@ -361,7 +362,11 @@  static int sel_make_classes(struct selinux_policy *newpolicy,
 static struct dentry *sel_make_dir(struct dentry *dir, const char *name,
 			unsigned long *ino);
 
-/* declaration for sel_remove_old_policy_nodes */
+/* declaration for sel_make_policy_nodes */
+static struct dentry *sel_make_disconnected_dir(struct super_block *sb,
+						unsigned long *ino);
+
+/* declaration for sel_make_policy_nodes */
 static void sel_remove_entries(struct dentry *de);
 
 static ssize_t sel_read_mls(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
@@ -518,50 +523,109 @@  static const struct file_operations sel_policy_ops = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 };
 
-static void sel_remove_old_policy_nodes(struct selinux_fs_info *fsi)
+static void sel_remove_old_bool_data(unsigned int bool_num, char **bool_names,
+				unsigned int *bool_values)
 {
 	u32 i;
 
 	/* bool_dir cleanup */
-	for (i = 0; i < fsi->bool_num; i++)
-		kfree(fsi->bool_pending_names[i]);
-	kfree(fsi->bool_pending_names);
-	kfree(fsi->bool_pending_values);
-	fsi->bool_num = 0;
-	fsi->bool_pending_names = NULL;
-	fsi->bool_pending_values = NULL;
-
-	sel_remove_entries(fsi->bool_dir);
-
-	/* class_dir cleanup */
-	sel_remove_entries(fsi->class_dir);
-
-	/* policycap_dir cleanup */
-	sel_remove_entries(fsi->policycap_dir);
+	for (i = 0; i < bool_num; i++)
+		kfree(bool_names[i]);
+	kfree(bool_names);
+	kfree(bool_values);
 }
 
 static int sel_make_policy_nodes(struct selinux_fs_info *fsi,
 				struct selinux_policy *newpolicy)
 {
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
+	struct dentry *tmp_parent, *tmp_bool_dir, *tmp_class_dir, *tmp_policycap_dir, *old_dentry;
+	unsigned int tmp_bool_num, old_bool_num;
+	char **tmp_bool_names, **old_bool_names;
+	unsigned int *tmp_bool_values, *old_bool_values;
+
+	tmp_parent = sel_make_disconnected_dir(fsi->sb, &fsi->last_ino);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp_parent)) {
+		return PTR_ERR(tmp_parent);
+	}
 
-	sel_remove_old_policy_nodes(fsi);
+	tmp_bool_dir = sel_make_dir(tmp_parent, BOOL_DIR_NAME, &fsi->last_ino);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp_bool_dir)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(tmp_bool_dir);
+		goto out;
+	}
 
-	ret = sel_make_bools(newpolicy, fsi->bool_dir, &fsi->bool_num,
-			     &fsi->bool_pending_names, &fsi->bool_pending_values);
+	tmp_class_dir = sel_make_dir(tmp_parent, CLASS_DIR_NAME, &fsi->last_ino);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp_class_dir)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(tmp_class_dir);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	tmp_policycap_dir = sel_make_dir(tmp_parent, POLICYCAP_DIR_NAME, &fsi->last_ino);
+	if (IS_ERR(tmp_policycap_dir)) {
+		ret = PTR_ERR(tmp_policycap_dir);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	ret = sel_make_bools(newpolicy, tmp_bool_dir, &tmp_bool_num,
+			     &tmp_bool_names, &tmp_bool_values);
 	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("SELinux: failed to load policy booleans\n");
-		return ret;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ret = sel_make_classes(newpolicy, fsi->class_dir,
+	ret = sel_make_classes(newpolicy, tmp_class_dir,
 			       &fsi->last_class_ino);
 	if (ret) {
 		pr_err("SELinux: failed to load policy classes\n");
-		return ret;
+		goto out;
 	}
 
-	return 0;
+	// booleans
+	old_dentry = fsi->bool_dir;
+	lock_rename(tmp_bool_dir, old_dentry);
+	ret = vfs_rename(tmp_parent->d_inode, tmp_bool_dir, fsi->sb->s_root->d_inode,
+			 fsi->bool_dir, NULL, RENAME_EXCHANGE);
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_err("Failed to update boolean directory\n");
+		unlock_rename(tmp_bool_dir, old_dentry);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	old_bool_num = fsi->bool_num;
+	old_bool_names = fsi->bool_pending_names;
+	old_bool_values = fsi->bool_pending_values;
+
+	fsi->bool_num = tmp_bool_num;
+	fsi->bool_pending_names = tmp_bool_names;
+	fsi->bool_pending_values = tmp_bool_values;
+
+	sel_remove_old_bool_data(old_bool_num, old_bool_names, old_bool_values);
+
+	fsi->bool_dir = tmp_bool_dir;
+	unlock_rename(tmp_bool_dir, old_dentry);
+
+	// classes
+	old_dentry = fsi->class_dir;
+	lock_rename(tmp_class_dir, old_dentry);
+	ret = vfs_rename(tmp_parent->d_inode, tmp_class_dir, fsi->sb->s_root->d_inode,
+			 fsi->class_dir, NULL, RENAME_EXCHANGE);
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_err("Failed to update class directory\n");
+		unlock_rename(tmp_class_dir, old_dentry);
+		goto out;
+	}
+	fsi->class_dir = tmp_class_dir;
+	unlock_rename(tmp_class_dir, old_dentry);
+
+out:
+	// Since the other temporary dirs are children of tmp_parent
+	// this will handle all the cleanup in the case of a failure before
+	// the swapover
+	sel_remove_entries(tmp_parent);
+	dput(tmp_parent); // d_genocide() only handles the children
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static ssize_t sel_write_load(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
@@ -1984,6 +2048,38 @@  static struct dentry *sel_make_dir(struct dentry *dir, const char *name,
 	return dentry;
 }
 
+// vfs_rename() requires a rename operation to be defined.
+int sel_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
+		  struct inode *new_dir, struct dentry *new_dentry,
+		  unsigned int flags)
+{
+	if (!(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+const struct inode_operations sel_dir_inode_operations = {
+	.lookup		= simple_lookup,
+	.rename		= sel_rename,
+};
+
+static struct dentry *sel_make_disconnected_dir(struct super_block *sb,
+						unsigned long *ino)
+{
+	struct inode *inode = sel_make_inode(sb, S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO);
+
+	if (!inode)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	inode->i_op = &sel_dir_inode_operations;
+	inode->i_fop = &simple_dir_operations;
+	inode->i_ino = ++(*ino);
+	/* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */
+	inc_nlink(inode);
+	return d_obtain_alias(inode);
+}
+
 #define NULL_FILE_NAME "null"
 
 static int sel_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)