linux-kernel - [PATCH] io_uring: don't audit the capability check in io_uring

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:56:07 +0200
From:   Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>
To:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, selinux@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] io_uring: don't audit the capability check in io_uring_create()

The check being unconditional may lead to unwanted denials reported by
LSMs when a process has the capability granted by DAC, but denied by an
LSM. In the case of SELinux such denials are a problem, since they can't
be effectively filtered out via the policy and when not silenced, they
produce noise that may hide a true problem or an attack.

Since not having the capability merely means that the created io_uring
context will be accounted against the current user's RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
limit, we can disable auditing of denials for this check by using
ns_capable_noaudit() instead of capable().

Fixes: 2b188cc1bb85 ("Add io_uring IO interface")
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2193317
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>
---
 io_uring/io_uring.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/io_uring/io_uring.c b/io_uring/io_uring.c
index 7505de2428e03..a9923676d16d6 100644
--- a/io_uring/io_uring.c
+++ b/io_uring/io_uring.c
@@ -3870,7 +3870,7 @@ static __cold int io_uring_create(unsigned entries, struct io_uring_params *p,
 		ctx->syscall_iopoll = 1;

 	ctx->compat = in_compat_syscall();
-	if (!capable(CAP_IPC_LOCK))
+	if (!ns_capable_noaudit(&init_user_ns, CAP_IPC_LOCK))
 		ctx->user = get_uid(current_user());

 	/*
-- 
2.41.0