selinux: Perform both commoncap and selinux xattr checks
When selinux is loaded the relax permission checks for writing security.capable are not honored. Which keeps file capabilities from being used in user namespaces. Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> writes: > Originally SELinux called the cap functions directly since there was no > stacking support in the infrastructure and one had to manually stack a > secondary module internally. inode_setxattr and inode_removexattr > however were special cases because the cap functions would check > CAP_SYS_ADMIN for any non-capability attributes in the security.* > namespace, and we don't want to impose that requirement on setting > security.selinux. Thus, we inlined the capabilities logic into the > selinux hook functions and adapted it appropriately. Now that the permission checks in commoncap have evolved this inlining of their contents has become a problem. So restructure selinux_inode_removexattr, and selinux_inode_setxattr to call both the corresponding cap_inode_ function and dentry_has_perm when the attribute is not a selinux security xattr. This ensures the policies of both commoncap and selinux are enforced. This results in smack and selinux having the same basic structure for setxattr and removexattr. Performing their own special permission checks when it is their modules xattr being written to, and deferring to commoncap when that is not the case. Then finally performing their generic module policy on all xattr writes. This structure is fine when you only consider stacking with the commoncap lsm, but it becomes a problem if two lsms that don't want the commoncap security checks on their own attributes need to be stack. This means there will need to be updates in the future as lsm stacking is improved, but at least now the structure between smack and selinux is common making the code easier to refactor. This change also has the effect that selinux_linux_setotherxattr becomes unnecessary so it is removed. Fixes: 8db6c34f ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities") Fixes: 7bbf0e05 ("[PATCH] selinux merge") Historical Tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.gitSigned-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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