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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:35:18 +0400
From: Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...il.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, willy@...radead.org,
keescook@...omium.org, paul@...l-moore.com, mhocko@...nel.org, corbet@....net
Cc: labbott@...hat.com, david@...morbit.com, rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] Protect SELinux initialized state with pmalloc
On 24/04/18 16:49, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On 04/23/2018 08:54 AM, Igor Stoppa wrote:
[...]
>> The patch is probably in need of rework, to make it fit better with the
>> new SELinux internal data structures, however it shows how to deny an
>> easy target to the attacker.
>
> I know this is just an example, but not sure why you wouldn't just protect the
> entire selinux_state.
Because I have much more to discuss about SELinux, which would involve
the whole state, the policyDB and the AVC
I will start a separate thread about that. This was merely as simple as
possible example of the use of the API.
I just wanted to have a feeling about how it would be received :-)
> Note btw that the selinux_state encapsulation is preparatory work
> for selinux namespaces [1], at which point the structure is in fact dynamically allocated
> and there can be multiple instances of it. That however is work-in-progress, highly experimental,
> and might not ever make it upstream (if we can't resolve the various challenges it poses in a satisfactory
> way).
Yes, I am aware of this and I would like to discuss also in the light of
the future directions.
I just didn't want to waste too much time on something that you might
want to change radically in a month :-)
I already was caught once by surprise when ss_initalized disappeared
just when I had a patch ready for it :-)
--
igor
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