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Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:29:10 -0400
From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v8 1/3] fs: Introduce AT_INTERPRETED flag for
faccessat2(2)
On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 08:52 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:50 AM Stephen Smalley
> <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 8, 2020 at 8:43 AM Mickaël Salaün <mic@...ikod.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 08/09/2020 14:28, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > > > Hi Mickael,
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2020-09-08 at 09:59 +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> > > >> + mode |= MAY_INTERPRETED_EXEC;
> > > >> + /*
> > > >> + * For compatibility reasons, if the system-wide policy
> > > >> + * doesn't enforce file permission checks, then
> > > >> + * replaces the execute permission request with a read
> > > >> + * permission request.
> > > >> + */
> > > >> + mode &= ~MAY_EXEC;
> > > >> + /* To be executed *by* user space, files must be readable. */
> > > >> + mode |= MAY_READ;
> > > >
> > > > After this change, I'm wondering if it makes sense to add a call to
> > > > security_file_permission(). IMA doesn't currently define it, but
> > > > could.
> > >
> > > Yes, that's the idea. We could replace the following inode_permission()
> > > with file_permission(). I'm not sure how this will impact other LSMs though.
I wasn't suggesting replacing the existing security_inode_permission
hook later, but adding a new security_file_permission hook here.
> >
> > They are not equivalent at least as far as SELinux is concerned.
> > security_file_permission() was only to be used to revalidate
> > read/write permissions previously checked at file open to support
> > policy changes and file or process label changes. We'd have to modify
> > the SELinux hook if we wanted to have it check execute access even if
> > nothing has changed since open time.
>
> Also Smack doesn't appear to implement file_permission at all, so it
> would skip Smack checking.
My question is whether adding a new security_file_permission call here
would break either SELinux or Apparmor?
Mimi
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