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    nfsd: set security label during create operations · 442d27ff
    Stephen Smalley authored
    When security labeling is enabled, the client can pass a file security
    label as part of a create operation for the new file, similar to mode
    and other attributes. At present, the security label is received by nfsd
    and passed down to nfsd_create_setattr(), but nfsd_setattr() is never
    called and therefore the label is never set on the new file. This bug
    may have been introduced on or around commit d6a97d3f ("NFSD:
    add security label to struct nfsd_attrs"). Looking at nfsd_setattr()
    I am uncertain as to whether the same issue presents for
    file ACLs and therefore requires a similar fix for those.
    
    An alternative approach would be to introduce a new LSM hook to set the
    "create SID" of the current task prior to the actual file creation, which
    would atomically label the new inode at creation time. This would be better
    for SELinux and a similar approach has been used previously
    (see security_dentry_create_files_as) but perhaps not usable by other LSMs.
    
    Reproducer:
    1. Install a Linux distro with SELinux - Fedora is easiest
    2. git clone https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-testsuite
    3. Install the requisite dependencies per selinux-testsuite/README.md
    4. Run something like the following script:
    MOUNT=$HOME/selinux-testsuite
    sudo systemctl start nfs-server
    sudo exportfs -o rw,no_root_squash,security_label localhost:$MOUNT
    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/selinux-testsuite
    sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=4.2 localhost:$MOUNT /mnt/selinux-testsuite
    pushd /mnt/selinux-testsuite/
    sudo make -C policy load
    pushd tests/filesystem
    sudo runcon -t test_filesystem_t ./create_file -f trans_test_file \
    	-e test_filesystem_filetranscon_t -v
    sudo rm -f trans_test_file
    popd
    sudo make -C policy unload
    popd
    sudo umount /mnt/selinux-testsuite
    sudo exportfs -u localhost:$MOUNT
    sudo rmdir /mnt/selinux-testsuite
    sudo systemctl stop nfs-server
    
    Expected output:
    <eliding noise from commands run prior to or after the test itself>
    Process context:
    	unconfined_u:unconfined_r:test_filesystem_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
    Created file: trans_test_file
    File context: unconfined_u:object_r:test_filesystem_filetranscon_t:s0
    File context is correct
    
    Actual output:
    <eliding noise from commands run prior to or after the test itself>
    Process context:
    	unconfined_u:unconfined_r:test_filesystem_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023
    Created file: trans_test_file
    File context: system_u:object_r:test_file_t:s0
    File context error, expected:
    	test_filesystem_filetranscon_t
    got:
    	test_file_t
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
    442d27ff
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