linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 0/3] binder: use cred instead of task for security context

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Message-Id: <20211006194610.953319-1-tkjos@google.com>
Date:   Wed,  6 Oct 2021 12:46:07 -0700
From:   Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, arve@...roid.com, tkjos@...roid.com,
        maco@...roid.com, christian@...uner.io, jmorris@...ei.org,
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Cc:     joel@...lfernandes.org, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] binder: use cred instead of task for security context

This series fixes the possible use of an incorrect security context
when checking selinux permissions, getting a security ID, or lookup
up the euid.

The previous behavior was to save the group_leader 'struct task_struct'
in binder_open() and using that to obtain security IDs or euids.

This has been shown to be unreliable, so this series instead saves the
'struct cred' of the task that called binder_open(). This cred is used
for these lookups instead of the task.

v1 and v2 of this series were a single patch "binder: use euid from"
cred instead of using task". During review, Stephen Smalley identified
two more related issues so the corresponding patches were added to
the series.

Todd Kjos (3):
  binder: use cred instead of task for selinux checks
  binder: use cred instead of task for getsecid
  binder: use euid from cred instead of using task