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  1. Jul 11, 2019
  2. Jul 03, 2019
    • David Howells's avatar
      keys: Provide KEYCTL_GRANT_PERMISSION · 7a1ade84
      David Howells authored
      
      Provide a keyctl() operation to grant/remove permissions.  The grant
      operation, wrapped by libkeyutils, looks like:
      
      	int ret = keyctl_grant_permission(key_serial_t key,
      					  enum key_ace_subject_type type,
      					  unsigned int subject,
      					  unsigned int perm);
      
      Where key is the key to be modified, type and subject represent the subject
      to which permission is to be granted (or removed) and perm is the set of
      permissions to be granted.  0 is returned on success.  SET_SECURITY
      permission is required for this.
      
      The subject type currently must be KEY_ACE_SUBJ_STANDARD for the moment
      (other subject types will come along later).
      
      For subject type KEY_ACE_SUBJ_STANDARD, the following subject values are
      available:
      
      	KEY_ACE_POSSESSOR	The possessor of the key
      	KEY_ACE_OWNER		The owner of the key
      	KEY_ACE_GROUP		The key's group
      	KEY_ACE_EVERYONE	Everyone
      
      perm lists the permissions to be granted:
      
      	KEY_ACE_VIEW		Can view the key metadata
      	KEY_ACE_READ		Can read the key content
      	KEY_ACE_WRITE		Can update/modify the key content
      	KEY_ACE_SEARCH		Can find the key by searching/requesting
      	KEY_ACE_LINK		Can make a link to the key
      	KEY_ACE_SET_SECURITY	Can set security
      	KEY_ACE_INVAL		Can invalidate
      	KEY_ACE_REVOKE		Can revoke
      	KEY_ACE_JOIN		Can join this keyring
      	KEY_ACE_CLEAR		Can clear this keyring
      
      If an ACE already exists for the subject, then the permissions mask will be
      overwritten; if perm is 0, it will be deleted.
      
      Currently, the internal ACL is limited to a maximum of 16 entries.
      
      For example:
      
      	int ret = keyctl_grant_permission(key,
      					  KEY_ACE_SUBJ_STANDARD,
      					  KEY_ACE_OWNER,
      					  KEY_ACE_VIEW | KEY_ACE_READ);
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      7a1ade84
  3. Jun 27, 2019
    • David Howells's avatar
      keys: Replace uid/gid/perm permissions checking with an ACL · 2e12256b
      David Howells authored
      
      Replace the uid/gid/perm permissions checking on a key with an ACL to allow
      the SETATTR and SEARCH permissions to be split.  This will also allow a
      greater range of subjects to represented.
      
      ============
      WHY DO THIS?
      ============
      
      The problem is that SETATTR and SEARCH cover a slew of actions, not all of
      which should be grouped together.
      
      For SETATTR, this includes actions that are about controlling access to a
      key:
      
       (1) Changing a key's ownership.
      
       (2) Changing a key's security information.
      
       (3) Setting a keyring's restriction.
      
      And actions that are about managing a key's lifetime:
      
       (4) Setting an expiry time.
      
       (5) Revoking a key.
      
      and (proposed) managing a key as part of a cache:
      
       (6) Invalidating a key.
      
      Managing a key's lifetime doesn't really have anything to do with
      controlling access to that key.
      
      Expiry time is awkward since it's more about the lifetime of the content
      and so, in some ways goes better with WRITE permission.  It can, however,
      be set unconditionally by a process with an appropriate authorisation token
      for instantiating a key, and can also be set by the key type driver when a
      key is instantiated, so lumping it with the access-controlling actions is
      probably okay.
      
      As for SEARCH permission, that currently covers:
      
       (1) Finding keys in a keyring tree during a search.
      
       (2) Permitting keyrings to be joined.
      
       (3) Invalidation.
      
      But these don't really belong together either, since these actions really
      need to be controlled separately.
      
      Finally, there are number of special cases to do with granting the
      administrator special rights to invalidate or clear keys that I would like
      to handle with the ACL rather than key flags and special checks.
      
      
      ===============
      WHAT IS CHANGED
      ===============
      
      The SETATTR permission is split to create two new permissions:
      
       (1) SET_SECURITY - which allows the key's owner, group and ACL to be
           changed and a restriction to be placed on a keyring.
      
       (2) REVOKE - which allows a key to be revoked.
      
      The SEARCH permission is split to create:
      
       (1) SEARCH - which allows a keyring to be search and a key to be found.
      
       (2) JOIN - which allows a keyring to be joined as a session keyring.
      
       (3) INVAL - which allows a key to be invalidated.
      
      The WRITE permission is also split to create:
      
       (1) WRITE - which allows a key's content to be altered and links to be
           added, removed and replaced in a keyring.
      
       (2) CLEAR - which allows a keyring to be cleared completely.  This is
           split out to make it possible to give just this to an administrator.
      
       (3) REVOKE - see above.
      
      
      Keys acquire ACLs which consist of a series of ACEs, and all that apply are
      unioned together.  An ACE specifies a subject, such as:
      
       (*) Possessor - permitted to anyone who 'possesses' a key
       (*) Owner - permitted to the key owner
       (*) Group - permitted to the key group
       (*) Everyone - permitted to everyone
      
      Note that 'Other' has been replaced with 'Everyone' on the assumption that
      you wouldn't grant a permit to 'Other' that you wouldn't also grant to
      everyone else.
      
      Further subjects may be made available by later patches.
      
      The ACE also specifies a permissions mask.  The set of permissions is now:
      
      	VIEW		Can view the key metadata
      	READ		Can read the key content
      	WRITE		Can update/modify the key content
      	SEARCH		Can find the key by searching/requesting
      	LINK		Can make a link to the key
      	SET_SECURITY	Can change owner, ACL, expiry
      	INVAL		Can invalidate
      	REVOKE		Can revoke
      	JOIN		Can join this keyring
      	CLEAR		Can clear this keyring
      
      
      The KEYCTL_SETPERM function is then deprecated.
      
      The KEYCTL_SET_TIMEOUT function then is permitted if SET_SECURITY is set,
      or if the caller has a valid instantiation auth token.
      
      The KEYCTL_INVALIDATE function then requires INVAL.
      
      The KEYCTL_REVOKE function then requires REVOKE.
      
      The KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING function then requires JOIN to join an
      existing keyring.
      
      The JOIN permission is enabled by default for session keyrings and manually
      created keyrings only.
      
      
      ======================
      BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
      ======================
      
      To maintain backward compatibility, KEYCTL_SETPERM will translate the
      permissions mask it is given into a new ACL for a key - unless
      KEYCTL_SET_ACL has been called on that key, in which case an error will be
      returned.
      
      It will convert possessor, owner, group and other permissions into separate
      ACEs, if each portion of the mask is non-zero.
      
      SETATTR permission turns on all of INVAL, REVOKE and SET_SECURITY.  WRITE
      permission turns on WRITE, REVOKE and, if a keyring, CLEAR.  JOIN is turned
      on if a keyring is being altered.
      
      The KEYCTL_DESCRIBE function translates the ACL back into a permissions
      mask to return depending on possessor, owner, group and everyone ACEs.
      
      It will make the following mappings:
      
       (1) INVAL, JOIN -> SEARCH
      
       (2) SET_SECURITY -> SETATTR
      
       (3) REVOKE -> WRITE if SETATTR isn't already set
      
       (4) CLEAR -> WRITE
      
      Note that the value subsequently returned by KEYCTL_DESCRIBE may not match
      the value set with KEYCTL_SETATTR.
      
      
      =======
      TESTING
      =======
      
      This passes the keyutils testsuite for all but a couple of tests:
      
       (1) tests/keyctl/dh_compute/badargs: The first wrong-key-type test now
           returns EOPNOTSUPP rather than ENOKEY as READ permission isn't removed
           if the type doesn't have ->read().  You still can't actually read the
           key.
      
       (2) tests/keyctl/permitting/valid: The view-other-permissions test doesn't
           work as Other has been replaced with Everyone in the ACL.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      2e12256b
  4. May 30, 2019
  5. Dec 12, 2018
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      security: audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h · 876979c9
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      
      Historically a lot of these existed because we did not have
      a distinction between what was modular code and what was providing
      support to modules via EXPORT_SYMBOL and friends.  That changed
      when we forked out support for the latter into the export.h file.
      This means we should be able to reduce the usage of module.h
      in code that is obj-y Makefile or bool Kconfig.
      
      The advantage in removing such instances is that module.h itself
      sources about 15 other headers; adding significantly to what we feed
      cpp, and it can obscure what headers we are effectively using.
      
      Since module.h might have been the implicit source for init.h
      (for __init) and for export.h (for EXPORT_SYMBOL) we consider each
      instance for the presence of either and replace as needed.
      
      Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
      Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
      Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
      Cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com>
      876979c9
  6. Nov 15, 2017
    • Baolin Wang's avatar
      security: keys: Replace time_t/timespec with time64_t · 074d5898
      Baolin Wang authored
      
      The 'struct key' will use 'time_t' which we try to remove in the
      kernel, since 'time_t' is not year 2038 safe on 32bit systems.
      Also the 'struct keyring_search_context' will use 'timespec' type
      to record current time, which is also not year 2038 safe on 32bit
      systems.
      
      Thus this patch replaces 'time_t' with 'time64_t' which is year 2038
      safe for 'struct key', and replace 'timespec' with 'time64_t' for the
      'struct keyring_search_context', since we only look at the the seconds
      part of 'timespec' variable. Moreover we also change the codes where
      using the 'time_t' and 'timespec', and we can get current time by
      ktime_get_real_seconds() instead of current_kernel_time(), and use
      'TIME64_MAX' macro to initialize the 'time64_t' type variable.
      
      Especially in proc.c file, we have replaced 'unsigned long' and 'timespec'
      type with 'u64' and 'time64_t' type to save the timeout value, which means
      user will get one 'u64' type timeout value by issuing proc_keys_show()
      function.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarBaolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
      074d5898
  7. Oct 18, 2017
    • Eric Biggers's avatar
      KEYS: load key flags and expiry time atomically in key_validate() · 1823d475
      Eric Biggers authored
      
      In key_validate(), load the flags and expiry time once atomically, since
      these can change concurrently if key_validate() is called without the
      key semaphore held.  And we don't want to get inconsistent results if a
      variable is referenced multiple times.  For example, key->expiry was
      referenced in both 'if (key->expiry)' and in 'if (now.tv_sec >=
      key->expiry)', making it theoretically possible to see a spurious
      EKEYEXPIRED while the expiration time was being removed, i.e. set to 0.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      1823d475
  8. Mar 14, 2014
  9. Sep 14, 2012
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      userns: Convert security/keys to the new userns infrastructure · 9a56c2db
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      
      - Replace key_user ->user_ns equality checks with kuid_has_mapping checks.
      - Use from_kuid to generate key descriptions
      - Use kuid_t and kgid_t and the associated helpers instead of uid_t and gid_t
      - Avoid potential problems with file descriptor passing by displaying
        keys in the user namespace of the opener of key status proc files.
      
      Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
      Cc: keyrings@linux-nfs.org
      Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
      9a56c2db
  10. May 15, 2012
  11. May 11, 2012
    • David Howells's avatar
      KEYS: Add invalidation support · fd75815f
      David Howells authored
      
      Add support for invalidating a key - which renders it immediately invisible to
      further searches and causes the garbage collector to immediately wake up,
      remove it from keyrings and then destroy it when it's no longer referenced.
      
      It's better not to do this with keyctl_revoke() as that marks the key to start
      returning -EKEYREVOKED to searches when what is actually desired is to have the
      key refetched.
      
      To invalidate a key the caller must be granted SEARCH permission by the key.
      This may be too strict.  It may be better to also permit invalidation if the
      caller has any of READ, WRITE or SETATTR permission.
      
      The primary use for this is to evict keys that are cached in special keyrings,
      such as the DNS resolver or an ID mapper.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      fd75815f
  12. May 03, 2012
  13. Apr 07, 2012
  14. Jan 21, 2011
  15. Apr 23, 2010
  16. Feb 27, 2009
  17. Nov 13, 2008
    • David Howells's avatar
      CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials · d84f4f99
      David Howells authored
      
      Inaugurate copy-on-write credentials management.  This uses RCU to manage the
      credentials pointer in the task_struct with respect to accesses by other tasks.
      A process may only modify its own credentials, and so does not need locking to
      access or modify its own credentials.
      
      A mutex (cred_replace_mutex) is added to the task_struct to control the effect
      of PTRACE_ATTACHED on credential calculations, particularly with respect to
      execve().
      
      With this patch, the contents of an active credentials struct may not be
      changed directly; rather a new set of credentials must be prepared, modified
      and committed using something like the following sequence of events:
      
      	struct cred *new = prepare_creds();
      	int ret = blah(new);
      	if (ret < 0) {
      		abort_creds(new);
      		return ret;
      	}
      	return commit_creds(new);
      
      There are some exceptions to this rule: the keyrings pointed to by the active
      credentials may be instantiated - keyrings violate the COW rule as managing
      COW keyrings is tricky, given that it is possible for a task to directly alter
      the keys in a keyring in use by another task.
      
      To help enforce this, various pointers to sets of credentials, such as those in
      the task_struct, are declared const.  The purpose of this is compile-time
      discouragement of altering credentials through those pointers.  Once a set of
      credentials has been made public through one of these pointers, it may not be
      modified, except under special circumstances:
      
        (1) Its reference count may incremented and decremented.
      
        (2) The keyrings to which it points may be modified, but not replaced.
      
      The only safe way to modify anything else is to create a replacement and commit
      using the functions described in Documentation/credentials.txt (which will be
      added by a later patch).
      
      This patch and the preceding patches have been tested with the LTP SELinux
      testsuite.
      
      This patch makes several logical sets of alteration:
      
       (1) execve().
      
           This now prepares and commits credentials in various places in the
           security code rather than altering the current creds directly.
      
       (2) Temporary credential overrides.
      
           do_coredump() and sys_faccessat() now prepare their own credentials and
           temporarily override the ones currently on the acting thread, whilst
           preventing interference from other threads by holding cred_replace_mutex
           on the thread being dumped.
      
           This will be replaced in a future patch by something that hands down the
           credentials directly to the functions being called, rather than altering
           the task's objective credentials.
      
       (3) LSM interface.
      
           A number of functions have been changed, added or removed:
      
           (*) security_capset_check(), ->capset_check()
           (*) security_capset_set(), ->capset_set()
      
           	 Removed in favour of security_capset().
      
           (*) security_capset(), ->capset()
      
           	 New.  This is passed a pointer to the new creds, a pointer to the old
           	 creds and the proposed capability sets.  It should fill in the new
           	 creds or return an error.  All pointers, barring the pointer to the
           	 new creds, are now const.
      
           (*) security_bprm_apply_creds(), ->bprm_apply_creds()
      
           	 Changed; now returns a value, which will cause the process to be
           	 killed if it's an error.
      
           (*) security_task_alloc(), ->task_alloc_security()
      
           	 Removed in favour of security_prepare_creds().
      
           (*) security_cred_free(), ->cred_free()
      
           	 New.  Free security data attached to cred->security.
      
           (*) security_prepare_creds(), ->cred_prepare()
      
           	 New. Duplicate any security data attached to cred->security.
      
           (*) security_commit_creds(), ->cred_commit()
      
           	 New. Apply any security effects for the upcoming installation of new
           	 security by commit_creds().
      
           (*) security_task_post_setuid(), ->task_post_setuid()
      
           	 Removed in favour of security_task_fix_setuid().
      
           (*) security_task_fix_setuid(), ->task_fix_setuid()
      
           	 Fix up the proposed new credentials for setuid().  This is used by
           	 cap_set_fix_setuid() to implicitly adjust capabilities in line with
           	 setuid() changes.  Changes are made to the new credentials, rather
           	 than the task itself as in security_task_post_setuid().
      
           (*) security_task_reparent_to_init(), ->task_reparent_to_init()
      
           	 Removed.  Instead the task being reparented to init is referred
           	 directly to init's credentials.
      
      	 NOTE!  This results in the loss of some state: SELinux's osid no
      	 longer records the sid of the thread that forked it.
      
           (*) security_key_alloc(), ->key_alloc()
           (*) security_key_permission(), ->key_permission()
      
           	 Changed.  These now take cred pointers rather than task pointers to
           	 refer to the security context.
      
       (4) sys_capset().
      
           This has been simplified and uses less locking.  The LSM functions it
           calls have been merged.
      
       (5) reparent_to_kthreadd().
      
           This gives the current thread the same credentials as init by simply using
           commit_thread() to point that way.
      
       (6) __sigqueue_alloc() and switch_uid()
      
           __sigqueue_alloc() can't stop the target task from changing its creds
           beneath it, so this function gets a reference to the currently applicable
           user_struct which it then passes into the sigqueue struct it returns if
           successful.
      
           switch_uid() is now called from commit_creds(), and possibly should be
           folded into that.  commit_creds() should take care of protecting
           __sigqueue_alloc().
      
       (7) [sg]et[ug]id() and co and [sg]et_current_groups.
      
           The set functions now all use prepare_creds(), commit_creds() and
           abort_creds() to build and check a new set of credentials before applying
           it.
      
           security_task_set[ug]id() is called inside the prepared section.  This
           guarantees that nothing else will affect the creds until we've finished.
      
           The calling of set_dumpable() has been moved into commit_creds().
      
           Much of the functionality of set_user() has been moved into
           commit_creds().
      
           The get functions all simply access the data directly.
      
       (8) security_task_prctl() and cap_task_prctl().
      
           security_task_prctl() has been modified to return -ENOSYS if it doesn't
           want to handle a function, or otherwise return the return value directly
           rather than through an argument.
      
           Additionally, cap_task_prctl() now prepares a new set of credentials, even
           if it doesn't end up using it.
      
       (9) Keyrings.
      
           A number of changes have been made to the keyrings code:
      
           (a) switch_uid_keyring(), copy_keys(), exit_keys() and suid_keys() have
           	 all been dropped and built in to the credentials functions directly.
           	 They may want separating out again later.
      
           (b) key_alloc() and search_process_keyrings() now take a cred pointer
           	 rather than a task pointer to specify the security context.
      
           (c) copy_creds() gives a new thread within the same thread group a new
           	 thread keyring if its parent had one, otherwise it discards the thread
           	 keyring.
      
           (d) The authorisation key now points directly to the credentials to extend
           	 the search into rather pointing to the task that carries them.
      
           (e) Installing thread, process or session keyrings causes a new set of
           	 credentials to be created, even though it's not strictly necessary for
           	 process or session keyrings (they're shared).
      
      (10) Usermode helper.
      
           The usermode helper code now carries a cred struct pointer in its
           subprocess_info struct instead of a new session keyring pointer.  This set
           of credentials is derived from init_cred and installed on the new process
           after it has been cloned.
      
           call_usermodehelper_setup() allocates the new credentials and
           call_usermodehelper_freeinfo() discards them if they haven't been used.  A
           special cred function (prepare_usermodeinfo_creds()) is provided
           specifically for call_usermodehelper_setup() to call.
      
           call_usermodehelper_setkeys() adjusts the credentials to sport the
           supplied keyring as the new session keyring.
      
      (11) SELinux.
      
           SELinux has a number of changes, in addition to those to support the LSM
           interface changes mentioned above:
      
           (a) selinux_setprocattr() no longer does its check for whether the
           	 current ptracer can access processes with the new SID inside the lock
           	 that covers getting the ptracer's SID.  Whilst this lock ensures that
           	 the check is done with the ptracer pinned, the result is only valid
           	 until the lock is released, so there's no point doing it inside the
           	 lock.
      
      (12) is_single_threaded().
      
           This function has been extracted from selinux_setprocattr() and put into
           a file of its own in the lib/ directory as join_session_keyring() now
           wants to use it too.
      
           The code in SELinux just checked to see whether a task shared mm_structs
           with other tasks (CLONE_VM), but that isn't good enough.  We really want
           to know if they're part of the same thread group (CLONE_THREAD).
      
      (13) nfsd.
      
           The NFS server daemon now has to use the COW credentials to set the
           credentials it is going to use.  It really needs to pass the credentials
           down to the functions it calls, but it can't do that until other patches
           in this series have been applied.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      d84f4f99
    • David Howells's avatar
      CRED: Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds · c69e8d9c
      David Howells authored
      
      Use RCU to access another task's creds and to release a task's own creds.
      This means that it will be possible for the credentials of a task to be
      replaced without another task (a) requiring a full lock to read them, and (b)
      seeing deallocated memory.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      c69e8d9c
    • David Howells's avatar
      CRED: Separate task security context from task_struct · b6dff3ec
      David Howells authored
      
      Separate the task security context from task_struct.  At this point, the
      security data is temporarily embedded in the task_struct with two pointers
      pointing to it.
      
      Note that the Alpha arch is altered as it refers to (E)UID and (E)GID in
      entry.S via asm-offsets.
      
      With comment fixes Signed-off-by: default avatarMarc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com>
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
      b6dff3ec
  18. Jan 09, 2006
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] keys: Permit running process to instantiate keys · b5f545c8
      David Howells authored
      
      Make it possible for a running process (such as gssapid) to be able to
      instantiate a key, as was requested by Trond Myklebust for NFS4.
      
      The patch makes the following changes:
      
       (1) A new, optional key type method has been added. This permits a key type
           to intercept requests at the point /sbin/request-key is about to be
           spawned and do something else with them - passing them over the
           rpc_pipefs files or netlink sockets for instance.
      
           The uninstantiated key, the authorisation key and the intended operation
           name are passed to the method.
      
       (2) The callout_info is no longer passed as an argument to /sbin/request-key
           to prevent unauthorised viewing of this data using ps or by looking in
           /proc/pid/cmdline.
      
           This means that the old /sbin/request-key program will not work with the
           patched kernel as it will expect to see an extra argument that is no
           longer there.
      
           A revised keyutils package will be made available tomorrow.
      
       (3) The callout_info is now attached to the authorisation key. Reading this
           key will retrieve the information.
      
       (4) A new field has been added to the task_struct. This holds the
           authorisation key currently active for a thread. Searches now look here
           for the caller's set of keys rather than looking for an auth key in the
           lowest level of the session keyring.
      
           This permits a thread to be servicing multiple requests at once and to
           switch between them. Note that this is per-thread, not per-process, and
           so is usable in multithreaded programs.
      
           The setting of this field is inherited across fork and exec.
      
       (5) A new keyctl function (KEYCTL_ASSUME_AUTHORITY) has been added that
           permits a thread to assume the authority to deal with an uninstantiated
           key. Assumption is only permitted if the authorisation key associated
           with the uninstantiated key is somewhere in the thread's keyrings.
      
           This function can also clear the assumption.
      
       (6) A new magic key specifier has been added to refer to the currently
           assumed authorisation key (KEY_SPEC_REQKEY_AUTH_KEY).
      
       (7) Instantiation will only proceed if the appropriate authorisation key is
           assumed first. The assumed authorisation key is discarded if
           instantiation is successful.
      
       (8) key_validate() is moved from the file of request_key functions to the
           file of permissions functions.
      
       (9) The documentation is updated.
      
      From: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
      
          Build fix.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
      Cc: Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      b5f545c8
  19. Oct 31, 2005
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] Keys: Add LSM hooks for key management [try #3] · 29db9190
      David Howells authored
      
      The attached patch adds LSM hooks for key management facilities. The notable
      changes are:
      
       (1) The key struct now supports a security pointer for the use of security
           modules. This will permit key labelling and restrictions on which
           programs may access a key.
      
       (2) Security modules get a chance to note (or abort) the allocation of a key.
      
       (3) The key permission checking can now be enhanced by the security modules;
           the permissions check consults LSM if all other checks bear out.
      
       (4) The key permissions checking functions now return an error code rather
           than a boolean value.
      
       (5) An extra permission has been added to govern the modification of
           attributes (UID, GID, permissions).
      
      Note that there isn't an LSM hook specifically for each keyctl() operation,
      but rather the permissions hook allows control of individual operations based
      on the permission request bits.
      
      Key management access control through LSM is enabled by automatically if both
      CONFIG_KEYS and CONFIG_SECURITY are enabled.
      
      This should be applied on top of the patch ensubjected:
      
      	[PATCH] Keys: Possessor permissions should be additive
      
      Signed-Off-By: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarChris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      29db9190
  20. Oct 08, 2005
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