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

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2023 09:30:18 -0400
From:   Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
To:     Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>
Cc:     Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        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: Re: [PATCH] io_uring: don't audit the capability check in io_uring_create()

Hi, Ondrej,

Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com> writes:

> 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().

Could you add a comment, or add some documentation to
ns_capable_noaudit() about when it should be used?  It wasn't apparent
to me, at least, before this explanation.

> 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());
>  
>  	/*

Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>