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Message-ID: <CAHC9VhSDavBRxWEp2frY_dkSaxSBHfiCZ1zF2YNNoq6+-+GTjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 23 Feb 2022 16:36:48 -0500
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com>
Cc:     Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>,
        Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>, demiobenour@...il.com,
        SElinux list <selinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        selinux-refpolicy@...r.kernel.org,
        Jeff Vander Stoep <jeffv@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] security/selinux: Always allow FIOCLEX and FIONCLEX

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 7:43 AM Richard Haines
<richard_c_haines@...nternet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 13:12 +0100, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 12:58 PM Richard Haines
> > <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 18:28 -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 8:15 AM Richard Haines
> > > > <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > These ioctls are equivalent to fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, flags), which
> > > > > SELinux
> > > > > always allows too.  Furthermore, a failed FIOCLEX could result
> > > > > in a
> > > > > file
> > > > > descriptor being leaked to a process that should not have
> > > > > access to
> > > > > it.
> > > > >
> > > > > As this patch removes access controls, a policy capability
> > > > > needs to
> > > > > be
> > > > > enabled in policy to always allow these ioctls.
> > > > >
> > > > > Based-on-patch-by: Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@...il.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > > V2 Change: Control via a policy capability. See this thread for
> > > > > discussion:
> > > > > https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/CAHC9VhQEPxYP_KU56gAGNHKQaxucY8gSsHiUB42PVgADBAccRQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#t
> > > > >
> > > > > With this patch and the polcap enabled, the selinux-testsuite
> > > > > will
> > > > > fail:
> > > > > ioctl/test at line 47 - Will need a fix.
> > > > >
> > > > >  security/selinux/hooks.c                   | 7 +++++++
> > > > >  security/selinux/include/policycap.h       | 1 +
> > > > >  security/selinux/include/policycap_names.h | 3 ++-
> > > > >  security/selinux/include/security.h        | 7 +++++++
> > > > >  4 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Richard for putting together the v2 of this patch.
> > > >
> > > > As far as the test is concerned, it seems like the quick-n-dirty
> > > > fix
> > > > is to simply remove the ioctl(FIOCLEX) test in test_noioctl.c; is
> > > > everyone okay with that?  At least that is what I'm going to do
> > > > with
> > > > my local copy that I use to validate the kernel-secnext builds
> > > > unless
> > > > someone has a better patch :)
> > >
> > > To fix this I was planning to submit a patch that would change the
> > > ioctl(FIOCLEX) tests to ioctl(FS_IOC_GETFSLABEL) as that would
> > > continue
> > > to test the xperms.
> >
> > That one seems to be implemented only by some filesystems. Is there
> > any more generic one we could use?
>
> What about  FS_IOC_GETFLAGS

Unless I'm mistaken, FIGETBSZ should be largely fs independent.

> > > > > diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > > > b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > > > index 5b6895e4f..030c41652 100644
> > > > > --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > > > +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > > > > @@ -3745,6 +3745,13 @@ static int selinux_file_ioctl(struct
> > > > > file
> > > > > *file, unsigned int cmd,
> > > > >                                             CAP_OPT_NONE,
> > > > > true);
> > > > >                 break;
> > > > >
> > > > > +       case FIOCLEX:
> > > > > +       case FIONCLEX:
> > > > > +               /* Must always succeed if polcap set, else
> > > > > default:
> > > > > */
> > > > > +               if (selinux_policycap_ioctl_skip_cloexec())
> > > > > +                       break;
> > > > > +               fallthrough;
> > > > > +
> > > >
> > > > The break/fallthrough looks like it might be a little more
> > > > fragile
> > > > than necessary, how about something like this:
> > > >
> > > >   case FIOCLEX:
> > > >   case FIONCLEX:
> > > >     if (!selinux_policycap_ioctl_skip_cloexec())
> > > >       error = ioctl_has_perm(cred, file, FILE__IOCTL, (u16) cmd);
> > > >       break;
> > > >
> > > > Yes, it does duplicate the default ioctl_has_perm() call, but
> > > > since
> > > > we
> > > > are effectively deprecating this and locking the FIOCLEX/FIONCLEX
> > > > behavior with this policy capability it seems okay to me (and
> > > > preferable to relying on the fallthrough).
> > > >
> > > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > Yes I did ponder this and in my first attempt I had this before the
> > > switch():
> > >
> > >         /* Must always succeed if polcap set */
> > >         if (selinux_policycap_ioctl_skip_cloexec() &&
> > >             (cmd == FIOCLEX || cmd == FIONCLEX))
> > >                 return 0;
> > >
> > >         switch (cmd) {
> > >         case FIONREAD:
> > >         case FIBMAP:
> > >
> > > but changed to within the switch(), anyway I'm happy to resubmit a
> > > patch either way.
> >
> > I agree with Paul's suggestion. Better to duplicate the simple call
> > than to complicate the code flow.
>
> Okay will use Paul's.

Thanks guys.

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