Re: NFS/AFS/Selinux issues with 2.26.29

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 16:55:49 EST


Richard A Nelson <cowboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mar 24 21:09:20 el-ghor kernel: IP: [<ffffffff803628b7>] inode_has_perm+0x2c/0x72
> ...
> Mar 24 14:33:54 bandit-hall kernel: IP: [<c021ba99>] selinux_key_alloc+0x26/0x3b

This looks suspiciously like current->cred->security might be NULL. Can you
try running with the attached patch applied to your kernel?

David
---
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 3a03918..67f4de9 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -157,6 +157,9 @@ struct cred *prepare_creds(void)

if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
goto error;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif
return new;

error:
@@ -250,6 +253,9 @@ struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
#endif
if (security_prepare_creds(new, &init_cred, GFP_ATOMIC) < 0)
goto error;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif

BUG_ON(atomic_read(&new->usage) != 1);
return new;
@@ -331,6 +337,9 @@ int copy_creds(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long clone_flags)

atomic_inc(&new->user->processes);
p->cred = p->real_cred = get_cred(new);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif
return 0;

error_put:
@@ -360,6 +369,9 @@ int commit_creds(struct cred *new)
BUG_ON(task->cred != task->real_cred);
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&task->real_cred->usage) < 2);
BUG_ON(atomic_read(&new->usage) < 1);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif

old = task->real_cred;
security_commit_creds(new, old);
@@ -444,6 +456,10 @@ const struct cred *override_creds(const struct cred *new)
{
const struct cred *old = current->cred;

+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!old->security);
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif
rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, get_cred(new));
return old;
}
@@ -460,6 +476,10 @@ void revert_creds(const struct cred *old)
{
const struct cred *override = current->cred;

+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!old->security);
+ WARN_ON(!override->security);
+#endif
rcu_assign_pointer(current->cred, old);
put_cred(override);
}
@@ -507,6 +527,10 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
else
old = get_cred(&init_cred);

+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!old->security);
+#endif
+
*new = *old;
get_uid(new->user);
get_group_info(new->group_info);
@@ -527,6 +551,9 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)

atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
put_cred(old);
+#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ WARN_ON(!new->security);
+#endif
return new;

error:
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 7c52ba2..25bb304 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -3236,7 +3236,7 @@ static int selinux_task_create(unsigned long clone_flags)
static void selinux_cred_free(struct cred *cred)
{
struct task_security_struct *tsec = cred->security;
- cred->security = NULL;
+ cred->security = (void *) 0x7UL;
kfree(tsec);
}

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