netdev - [PATCH v4 14/42] selinux: allow userspace to detect non-init SELinux namespace

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Message-ID: <20250610172226.1470741-15-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2025 13:21:45 -0400
From: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>
To: selinux@...r.kernel.org
Cc: paul@...l-moore.com,
	omosnace@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 14/42] selinux: allow userspace to detect non-init SELinux namespace

Enable reading of /sys/fs/selinux/unshare as a way to detect
whether a process is in a non-init SELinux namespace. This is
to allow the selinux-testsuite to adapt based on whether it is
run within a child SELinux namespace. Whether or not we want
to retain this as a userspace API is an open question.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>
---
 security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index 0508ad18eb73..39a60d221143 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -321,6 +321,19 @@ static const struct file_operations sel_disable_ops = {
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 };
 
+static ssize_t sel_read_unshare(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
+				size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
+{
+	const struct task_security_struct *tsec = selinux_cred(current_cred());
+	char tmpbuf[1];
+
+	if (tsec->state == init_selinux_state)
+		tmpbuf[0] = '0';
+	else
+		tmpbuf[0] = '1';
+	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, tmpbuf, 1);
+}
+
 static ssize_t sel_write_unshare(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 				 size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
 
@@ -373,6 +386,7 @@ static ssize_t sel_write_unshare(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
 }
 
 static const struct file_operations sel_unshare_ops = {
+	.read		= sel_read_unshare,
 	.write		= sel_write_unshare,
 	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
 };
@@ -2237,7 +2251,7 @@ static int sel_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 		[SEL_POLICY] = {"policy", &sel_policy_ops, S_IRUGO},
 		[SEL_VALIDATE_TRANS] = {"validatetrans", &sel_transition_ops,
 					S_IWUGO},
-		[SEL_UNSHARE] = {"unshare", &sel_unshare_ops, 0200},
+		[SEL_UNSHARE] = {"unshare", &sel_unshare_ops, 0600},
 		[SEL_MAXNS] = {"maxns", &sel_maxns_ops, 0600},
 		[SEL_MAXNSDEPTH] = {"maxnsdepth", &sel_maxnsdepth_ops, 0600},
 		/* last one */ {"", NULL, 0}
-- 
2.49.0