linux-kernel - Re: order 4 alloc failures in security_context_to_sid

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Date:	Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:52:06 -0500
From:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
CC:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, SE Linux <selinux@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
Subject: Re: order 4 alloc failures in security_context_to_sid_core

On 01/02/2013 11:37 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 1/2/2013 7:35 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> Along the same lines as 779302e67835fe9a6b74327e54969ba59cb3478a, xattrs
>> can cause big allocations, which are likely to fail under memory pressure..
>
> Adding LSM and SELinux lists.
>
>> [20539.081122] trinity-child3: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x1040d0
>> [20539.090405] Pid: 27617, comm: trinity-child3 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1+ #43
>> [20539.097883] Call Trace:
>> [20539.105032]  [<ffffffff8113c2ac>] warn_alloc_failed+0xec/0x140
>> [20539.112549]  [<ffffffff810b882d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
>> [20539.119609]  [<ffffffff810c02a0>] ? on_each_cpu_mask+0x70/0xd0
>> [20539.127089]  [<ffffffff81140c2e>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x91e/0xba0
>> [20539.134380]  [<ffffffff81182318>] alloc_pages_current+0xb8/0x180
>> [20539.141803]  [<ffffffff8113b20a>] __get_free_pages+0x2a/0x80
>> [20539.149513]  [<ffffffff8118ee1e>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x3e/0x1a0
>> [20539.157553]  [<ffffffff8100a186>] ? native_sched_clock+0x26/0x90
>> [20539.164898]  [<ffffffff8118f275>] __kmalloc+0x2f5/0x3a0
>> [20539.172288]  [<ffffffff812db176>] security_context_to_sid_core+0x86/0x280
>> [20539.179909]  [<ffffffff813318a8>] ? __const_udelay+0x28/0x30
>> [20539.187356]  [<ffffffff812c4118>] ? avc_has_perm_flags+0x178/0x2b0
>> [20539.194911]  [<ffffffff812c3fc9>] ? avc_has_perm_flags+0x29/0x2b0
>> [20539.202883]  [<ffffffff810b2342>] ? get_lock_stats+0x22/0x70
>> [20539.211117]  [<ffffffff812dc6d9>] security_context_to_sid+0x19/0x20
>> [20539.218729]  [<ffffffff812c76f0>] selinux_inode_setxattr+0xf0/0x220
>> [20539.226502]  [<ffffffff811d42f1>] ? vfs_setxattr+0x71/0xc0
>> [20539.233517]  [<ffffffff811d42f1>] ? vfs_setxattr+0x71/0xc0
>> [20539.240734]  [<ffffffff812c18d0>] security_inode_setxattr+0x20/0x30
>> [20539.248184]  [<ffffffff811d4306>] vfs_setxattr+0x86/0xc0
>> [20539.255357]  [<ffffffff811d446e>] setxattr+0x12e/0x1d0
>> [20539.262691]  [<ffffffff813426b5>] ? __percpu_counter_add+0x75/0xc0
>> [20539.270289]  [<ffffffff811aed33>] ? __sb_start_write+0x103/0x1c0
>> [20539.277927]  [<ffffffff811cf6a8>] ? mnt_want_write_file+0x28/0x60
>> [20539.285396]  [<ffffffff8104cc74>] ? do_setitimer+0x1c4/0x300
>> [20539.292986]  [<ffffffff811cf6a8>] ? mnt_want_write_file+0x28/0x60
>> [20539.300219]  [<ffffffff811cf592>] ? __mnt_want_write+0x62/0xa0
>> [20539.307259]  [<ffffffff811d491e>] sys_fsetxattr+0xbe/0xf0
>> [20539.314184]  [<ffffffff816a4a82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

As we impose a page size limit elsewhere (e.g. on the selinuxfs and 
/proc/pid/attr interfaces), we can likely fail immediately with -EINVAL 
in selinux_inode_setxattr() on any size greater than PAGE_SIZE.


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