linux-kernel - Re: [BUG] Panic when systemd boot do mkdir on tmpfs mounted path with smack enabled environment

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Date:	Fri, 27 May 2016 20:37:41 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:	Seung-Woo Kim <sw0312.kim@...sung.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jh80.chung@...gmsung.com, cw00.choi@...sung.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Panic when systemd boot do mkdir on tmpfs mounted path
 with smack enabled environment

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:03:37PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> I haven't actually seen the problem, but I've been having
> real trouble getting a systemd configuration working properly.
> The quickest validation will probably be coming from Seung-Woo Kim,
> who reported the issue initially. I am working to verify both the
> problem and the fix.

To trigger it you need to end up in smack_d_instantiate() for a directory
that had SMK_INODE_CHANGED set in smack_inode_init_security().  IOW,
smk_inode_transmutable() being true for its parent and smk_access_entry()
for that parent returning something with MAY_TRANSMUTE in it.

I'm not familiar enough with smack guts to put together a reproducer,
but *ANY* call of ->setxattr() from smack_d_instantiate() on xattr-supporting
filesystem will blow up in the mainline.  At that point dentry still has
NULL ->d_inode, so ->setxattr() instances are going to oops as soon as they
try to do anything with the inode.  All it takes is getting to that method
call.