Commit cfff75d8 authored by Ondrej Mosnacek's avatar Ondrej Mosnacek Committed by Paul Moore

selinux: reorder hooks to make runtime disable less broken

Commit b1d9e6b0 ("LSM: Switch to lists of hooks") switched the LSM
infrastructure to use per-hook lists, which meant that removing the
hooks for a given module was no longer atomic. Even though the commit
clearly documents that modules implementing runtime revmoval of hooks
(only SELinux attempts this madness) need to take special precautions to
avoid race conditions, SELinux has never addressed this.

By inserting an artificial delay between the loop iterations of
security_delete_hooks() (I used 100 ms), booting to a state where
SELinux is enabled, but policy is not yet loaded, and running these
commands:

    while true; do ping -c 1 <some IP>; done &
    echo -n 1 >/sys/fs/selinux/disable
    kill %1
    wait

...I was able to trigger NULL pointer dereferences in various places. I
also have a report of someone getting panics on a stock RHEL-8 kernel
after setting SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config and rebooting
(without adding "selinux=0" to kernel command-line).

Reordering the SELinux hooks such that those that allocate structures
are removed last seems to prevent these panics. It is very much possible
that this doesn't make the runtime disable completely race-free, but at
least it makes the operation much less fragile.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: b1d9e6b0 ("LSM: Switch to lists of hooks")
Signed-off-by: default avatarOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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