linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xfs: fix tmpfile/selinux deadlock and initialize security/acl

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 10:52:28 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Brian Foster <bfoster@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-man@...r.kernel.org, Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@...bit.com>,
	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] xfs: fix tmpfile/selinux deadlock and initialize
 security/acl

So any opinions from other fs / security people on how O_TMPFILE files
should behave for ACL inheritance / labeling?

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 05:29:44AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 08:19:48AM -0400, Brian Foster wrote:
> > Are you saying it doesn't have to initialize security or the default
> > acl, or both?
> 
> The ACLs for sure.  LSM do run-time access decisions, so they will
> probably rely on the security data being initialized.  Given that
> O_TMPFILE files aren't publicly available I'm not sure there's a point
> in them doing that, though.
> 
> LSMs are also affected by the lack of a proper parent I'll discuss for
> ACLs below.
> 
> > The intent here was to have the case covered where the inode happens to
> > be linked back into the namespace since we don't do this work in the
> > link path.
> 
> That's an interesting one.  O_TMFILE files don't have a real parent
> to inherit ACLs from, the pathname passed in just needs to point to
> a directory to find the filesystem to create the tmpfile in.  On
> the other hand it seem like the extN implementations do inherity the
> ACL in this case.
> 
> The link into the namespace is irrelavant here as ACL inheritance only
> happens on initial create, not at link time.
> 
> I also think we'll absolutely need a test case for ACLs+tmpfile to
> make sure all filesystems handle it the same way.
> 
> > The bulk of the refactoring was with the idea that the inode setup for
> > the tmpfile case is generally equivalent for the traditional create
> > case. The original version was posted here:
> > 
> > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-04/msg00149.html
> > 
> > ... and it just fixes the deadlock and adds the security initialization.
> > I suppose I could still break that out into multiple patches, but that
> > aside, is that behavior preferred?
> 
> I think just fixing the deadlock and initializing the security is enough
> for the first pass.  If you want to do the refactoring on top send it as
> a second series on top of the actual fixes.
> 
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