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    Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20240911' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm · a430d95c
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:
    
     - Move the LSM framework to static calls
    
       This transitions the vast majority of the LSM callbacks into static
       calls. Those callbacks which haven't been converted were left as-is
       due to the general ugliness of the changes required to support the
       static call conversion; we can revisit those callbacks at a future
       date.
    
     - Add the Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) LSM
    
       This adds a new LSM, Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE). There is
       plenty of documentation about IPE in this patches, so I'll refrain
       from going into too much detail here, but the basic motivation behind
       IPE is to provide a mechanism such that administrators can restrict
       execution to only those binaries which come from integrity protected
       storage, e.g. a dm-verity protected filesystem. You will notice that
       IPE requires additional LSM hooks in the initramfs, dm-verity, and
       fs-verity code, with the associated patches carrying ACK/review tags
       from the associated maintainers. We couldn't find an obvious
       maintainer for the initramfs code, but the IPE patchset has been
       widely posted over several years.
    
       Both Deven Bowers and Fan Wu have contributed to IPE's development
       over the past several years, with Fan Wu agreeing to serve as the IPE
       maintainer moving forward. Once IPE is accepted into your tree, I'll
       start working with Fan to ensure he has the necessary accounts, keys,
       etc. so that he can start submitting IPE pull requests to you
       directly during the next merge window.
    
     - Move the lifecycle management of the LSM blobs to the LSM framework
    
       Management of the LSM blobs (the LSM state buffers attached to
       various kernel structs, typically via a void pointer named "security"
       or similar) has been mixed, some blobs were allocated/managed by
       individual LSMs, others were managed by the LSM framework itself.
    
       Starting with this pull we move management of all the LSM blobs,
       minus the XFRM blob, into the framework itself, improving consistency
       across LSMs, and reducing the amount of duplicated code across LSMs.
       Due to some additional work required to migrate the XFRM blob, it has
       been left as a todo item for a later date; from a practical
       standpoint this omission should have little impact as only SELinux
       provides a XFRM LSM implementation.
    
     - Fix problems with the LSM's handling of F_SETOWN
    
       The LSM hook for the fcntl(F_SETOWN) operation had a couple of
       problems: it was racy with itself, and it was disconnected from the
       associated DAC related logic in such a way that the LSM state could
       be updated in cases where the DAC state would not. We fix both of
       these problems by moving the security_file_set_fowner() hook into the
       same section of code where the DAC attributes are updated. Not only
       does this resolve the DAC/LSM synchronization issue, but as that code
       block is protected by a lock, it also resolve the race condition.
    
     - Fix potential problems with the security_inode_free() LSM hook
    
       Due to use of RCU to protect inodes and the placement of the LSM hook
       associated with freeing the inode, there is a bit of a challenge when
       it comes to managing any LSM state associated with an inode. The VFS
       folks are not open to relocating the LSM hook so we have to get
       creative when it comes to releasing an inode's LSM state.
       Traditionally we have used a single LSM callback within the hook that
       is triggered when the inode is "marked for death", but not actually
       released due to RCU.
    
       Unfortunately, this causes problems for LSMs which want to take an
       action when the inode's associated LSM state is actually released; so
       we add an additional LSM callback, inode_free_security_rcu(), that is
       called when the inode's LSM state is released in the RCU free
       callback.
    
     - Refactor two LSM hooks to better fit the LSM return value patterns
    
       The vast majority of the LSM hooks follow the "return 0 on success,
       negative values on failure" pattern, however, there are a small
       handful that have unique return value behaviors which has caused
       confusion in the past and makes it difficult for the BPF verifier to
       properly vet BPF LSM programs. This includes patches to
       convert two of these"special" LSM hooks to the common 0/-ERRNO pattern.
    
     - Various cleanups and improvements
    
       A handful of patches to remove redundant code, better leverage the
       IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper, add missing "static" markings, and do some
       minor style fixups.
    
    * tag 'lsm-pr-20240911' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (40 commits)
      security: Update file_set_fowner documentation
      fs: Fix file_set_fowner LSM hook inconsistencies
      lsm: Use IS_ERR_OR_NULL() helper function
      lsm: remove LSM_COUNT and LSM_CONFIG_COUNT
      ipe: Remove duplicated include in ipe.c
      lsm: replace indirect LSM hook calls with static calls
      lsm: count the LSMs enabled at compile time
      kernel: Add helper macros for loop unrolling
      init/main.c: Initialize early LSMs after arch code, static keys and calls.
      MAINTAINERS: add IPE entry with Fan Wu as maintainer
      documentation: add IPE documentation
      ipe: kunit test for parser
      scripts: add boot policy generation program
      ipe: enable support for fs-verity as a trust provider
      fsverity: expose verified fsverity built-in signatures to LSMs
      lsm: add security_inode_setintegrity() hook
      ipe: add support for dm-verity as a trust provider
      dm-verity: expose root hash digest and signature data to LSMs
      block,lsm: add LSM blob and new LSM hooks for block devices
      ipe: add permissive toggle
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