Re: [PATCH] LSM: Ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is specified

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Mon Feb 11 2019 - 19:22:20 EST


Kees Cook wrote:
> To avoid potential confusion, explicitly ignore "security=" when "lsm=" is
> used on the command line, and report that it is happening.

To maintain the existing behavior of CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY, I also suggest this change.
This saves e.g. Ubuntu users who are using only AppArmor from explicitly specifying
security=apparmor when they don't want to enable other LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR modules.

---
security/Kconfig | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
security/security.c | 5 ++++-
2 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/Kconfig b/security/Kconfig
index 9555f49..6a40995 100644
--- a/security/Kconfig
+++ b/security/Kconfig
@@ -250,5 +250,42 @@ config LSM

If unsure, leave this as the default.

+choice
+ prompt "Default exclusive security module"
+ default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX if SECURITY_SELINUX
+ default DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK if SECURITY_SMACK
+ default DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO if SECURITY_TOMOYO
+ default DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR if SECURITY_APPARMOR
+ default DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+
+ help
+ The security module where only one of these modules should be enabled if
+ neither the "security=" parameter nor the "lsm=" parameter is specified.
+
+ config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ bool "SELinux" if SECURITY_SELINUX=y
+
+ config DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK
+ bool "Simplified Mandatory Access Control" if SECURITY_SMACK=y
+
+ config DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO
+ bool "TOMOYO" if SECURITY_TOMOYO=y
+
+ config DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
+ bool "AppArmor" if SECURITY_APPARMOR=y
+
+ config DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+ bool "Unix Discretionary Access Controls"
+
+endchoice
+
+config DEFAULT_SECURITY
+ string
+ default "selinux" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SELINUX
+ default "smack" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_SMACK
+ default "tomoyo" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_TOMOYO
+ default "apparmor" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_APPARMOR
+ default "" if DEFAULT_SECURITY_DAC
+
endmenu

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index e6153ed..c44e3cd 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -294,8 +294,11 @@ static void __init ordered_lsm_init(void)
chosen_major_lsm = NULL;
}
ordered_lsm_parse(chosen_lsm_order, "cmdline");
- } else
+ } else {
+ if (!chosen_major_lsm)
+ chosen_major_lsm = CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY;
ordered_lsm_parse(builtin_lsm_order, "builtin");
+ }

for (lsm = ordered_lsms; *lsm; lsm++)
prepare_lsm(*lsm);
--
1.8.3.1