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Message-ID: <9c8a09d6-6373-c8c2-c8ff-2b4c3f92ddf1@linux.ibm.com>
Date:   Sun, 6 Feb 2022 12:20:14 -0500
From:   Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:     linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, zohar@...ux.ibm.com,
        christian.brauner@...ntu.com, containers@...ts.linux.dev,
        dmitry.kasatkin@...il.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
        krzysztof.struczynski@...wei.com, roberto.sassu@...wei.com,
        mpeters@...hat.com, lhinds@...hat.com, lsturman@...hat.com,
        puiterwi@...hat.com, jejb@...ux.ibm.com, jamjoom@...ibm.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paul@...l-moore.com, rgb@...hat.com,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, jmorris@...ei.org,
        Denis Semakin <denis.semakin@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 12/27] ima: Define mac_admin_ns_capable() as a wrapper
 for ns_capable()


On 2/5/22 00:58, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 03:37:20PM -0500, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> Define mac_admin_ns_capable() as a wrapper for the combined ns_capable()
>> checks on CAP_MAC_ADMIN and CAP_SYS_ADMIN in a user namespace. Return
>> true on the check if either capability or both are available.
>>
>> Use mac_admin_ns_capable() in place of capable(SYS_ADMIN). This will allow
>> an IMA namespace to read the policy with only CAP_MAC_ADMIN, which has
>> less privileges than CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Denis Semakin <denis.semakin@...wei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>   include/linux/capability.h      | 6 ++++++
>>   security/integrity/ima/ima.h    | 6 ++++++
>>   security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c | 5 ++++-
>>   3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
>> index 65efb74c3585..991579178f32 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/capability.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
>> @@ -270,6 +270,12 @@ static inline bool checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns)
>>   		ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
>>   }
>>   
>> +static inline bool mac_admin_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns)
>> +{
>> +	return ns_capable(ns, CAP_MAC_ADMIN) ||
>> +		ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
> Do you care about audit warnings?  If the task has CAP_SYS_ADMIN but
> not CAP_MAC_ADMIN, is it desirable that selinux_capable() will audit the
> CAP_MAC_ADMIN failure?

Good point.  I will switch both to ns_capable_noaudit() so that the user 
cannot provoke unnecessary audit message.

Thanks.

     Stefan

>
>> +}
>> +
>>   /* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */
>>   int get_vfs_caps_from_disk(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
>>   			   const struct dentry *dentry,
>> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
>> index fb6bd054d899..0057b1fd6c18 100644
>> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
>> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima.h
>> @@ -487,4 +487,10 @@ static inline int ima_filter_rule_match(u32 secid, u32 field, u32 op,
>>   #define	POLICY_FILE_FLAGS	S_IWUSR
>>   #endif /* CONFIG_IMA_READ_POLICY */
>>   
>> +static inline
>> +struct user_namespace *ima_user_ns_from_file(const struct file *filp)
>> +{
>> +	return file_inode(filp)->i_sb->s_user_ns;
>> +}
>> +
>>   #endif /* __LINUX_IMA_H */
>> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
>> index 89d3113ceda1..c41aa61b7393 100644
>> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
>> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
>> @@ -377,6 +377,9 @@ static const struct seq_operations ima_policy_seqops = {
>>    */
>>   static int ima_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>>   {
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMA_READ_POLICY
>> +	struct user_namespace *user_ns = ima_user_ns_from_file(filp);
>> +#endif
>>   	struct ima_namespace *ns = &init_ima_ns;
>>   
>>   	if (!(filp->f_flags & O_WRONLY)) {
>> @@ -385,7 +388,7 @@ static int ima_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>>   #else
>>   		if ((filp->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) != O_RDONLY)
>>   			return -EACCES;
>> -		if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
>> +		if (!mac_admin_ns_capable(user_ns))
>>   			return -EPERM;
>>   		return seq_open(filp, &ima_policy_seqops);
>>   #endif
>> -- 
>> 2.31.1