netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] Security: Add disablenetwork interface. (v4)

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Message-ID: <20091227032604.GB17629@hallyn.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:26:04 -0600
From:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
To:	Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, David Lang <david@...g.hm>,
	Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@...tkopp.net>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@...il.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	"C. Scott Ananian" <cscott@...ott.net>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Bernie Innocenti <bernie@...ewiz.org>,
	Mark Seaborn <mrs@...hic-beasts.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Am?rico Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Samir Bellabes <sam@...ack.fr>,
	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Security: Add disablenetwork interface. (v4)

Quoting Michael Stone (michael@...top.org):
> Daniel Bernstein has observed [1] that security-conscious userland processes
> may benefit from the ability to irrevocably remove their ability to create,
> bind, connect to, or send messages except in the case of previously connected
> sockets or AF_UNIX filesystem sockets.
> 
> This patch provides
> 
>    * a new configuration option named CONFIG_SECURITY_DISABLENETWORK,
>    * a new prctl option-pair (PR_SET_NETWORK, PR_GET_NETWORK),
>    * a new prctl(PR_SET_NETWORK) flag named PR_NETWORK_OFF, and
>    * a new task_struct flags field named "network"
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Stone <michael@...top.org>
> ---
>   include/linux/prctl.h         |    7 +++++
>   include/linux/prctl_network.h |    7 +++++
>   include/linux/sched.h         |    4 +++
>   kernel/sys.c                  |   53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   security/Kconfig              |   11 ++++++++
>   5 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 include/linux/prctl_network.h
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/prctl.h b/include/linux/prctl.h
> index a3baeb2..4eb4110 100644
> --- a/include/linux/prctl.h
> +++ b/include/linux/prctl.h
> @@ -102,4 +102,11 @@
>   
>   #define PR_MCE_KILL_GET 34
>   
> +/* Get/set process disable-network flags */
> +#define PR_SET_NETWORK	35
> +#define PR_GET_NETWORK	36
> +# define PR_NETWORK_ON        0
> +# define PR_NETWORK_OFF       1
> +# define PR_NETWORK_ALL_FLAGS 1
> +
>   #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/prctl_network.h b/include/linux/prctl_network.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..d18f8cb
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/include/linux/prctl_network.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
> +#ifndef _LINUX_PRCTL_NETWORK_H
> +#define _LINUX_PRCTL_NETWORK_H
> +
> +extern long prctl_get_network(unsigned long*);
> +extern long prctl_set_network(unsigned long*);
> +
> +#endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_NETWORK_H */
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index f2f842d..6fcaef8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1403,6 +1403,10 @@ struct task_struct {
>   #endif
>   	seccomp_t seccomp;
>   
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_DISABLENETWORK
> +  unsigned long network;
> +#endif
> +
>   /* Thread group tracking */
>      	u32 parent_exec_id;
>      	u32 self_exec_id;
> diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
> index 26a6b73..b48f021 100644
> --- a/kernel/sys.c
> +++ b/kernel/sys.c
> @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
>   #include <linux/cpu.h>
>   #include <linux/ptrace.h>
>   #include <linux/fs_struct.h>
> +#include <linux/prctl_network.h>
>   
>   #include <linux/compat.h>
>   #include <linux/syscalls.h>
> @@ -1578,6 +1579,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(prctl, int, option, unsigned long, arg2, unsigned long, arg3,
>   			else
>   				error = PR_MCE_KILL_DEFAULT;
>   			break;
> +		case PR_SET_NETWORK:
> +			error = prctl_set_network((unsigned long*)arg2);
> +			break;
> +		case PR_GET_NETWORK:
> +			error = prctl_get_network((unsigned long*)arg2);
> +			break;

Is there any reason not to handle these in
	disablenetwork_security_prctl()
?

Other than that, this looks quite good to me...  (No need to
initialize ret=0 in your security_* updates, to get pedantic,
that's all I noticed)

I'll give it a closer look on monday before I ack.

thanks,
-serge
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