selinux,smack: fix subjective/objective credential use mixups
Jann Horn reported a problem with commit eb1231f7 ("selinux: clarify task subjective and objective credentials") where some LSM hooks were attempting to access the subjective credentials of a task other than the current task. Generally speaking, it is not safe to access another task's subjective credentials and doing so can cause a number of problems. Further, while looking into the problem, I realized that Smack was suffering from a similar problem brought about by a similar commit 1fb057dc ("smack: differentiate between subjective and objective task credentials"). This patch addresses this problem by restoring the use of the task's objective credentials in those cases where the task is other than the current executing task. Not only does this resolve the problem reported by Jann, it is arguably the correct thing to do in these cases. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: eb1231f7 ("selinux: clarify task subjective and objective credentials") Fixes: 1fb057dc ("smack: differentiate between subjective and objective task credentials") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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