Re: [PATCH 3/3] selinux: expose policy SHA256 checksum via selinuxfs

[Stephen Smalley]

On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 00:02 +0900, Sebastien Buisson wrote:
> Expose policy SHA256 checksum via selinuxfs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastien Buisson <sbuisson@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Âsecurity/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> Â1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index ce71718..b2d5deb 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
> Â#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> Â#include <linux/kobject.h>
> Â#include <linux/ctype.h>
> +#include <crypto/sha.h>
> Â
> Â/* selinuxfs pseudo filesystem for exporting the security policy
> API.
> ÂÂÂÂBased on the proc code and the fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c code. */
> @@ -99,6 +100,7 @@ enum sel_inos {
> Â	SEL_STATUS,	/* export current status using mmap() */
> Â	SEL_POLICY,	/* allow userspace to read the in kernel
> policy */
> Â	SEL_VALIDATE_TRANS, /* compute validatetrans decision */
> +	SEL_POLICYCKSUM,/* return policy SHA256 checkum */
> Â	SEL_INO_NEXT,	/* The next inode number to use */
> Â};
> Â
> @@ -313,6 +315,22 @@ static ssize_t sel_read_policyvers(struct file
> *filp, char __user *buf,
> Â	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
> Â};
> Â
> +static ssize_t sel_read_policycksum(struct file *filp, char __user
> *buf,
> +				ÂÂÂÂsize_t count, loff_t *ppos)
> +{
> +	size_t tmpbuflen = SHA256_DIGEST_SIZE*2 + 1;
> +	char tmpbuf[tmpbuflen];
> +	ssize_t length;
> +
> +	length = security_policydb_cksum(tmpbuf, tmpbuflen);
> +	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, tmpbuf,
> length);
> +}

Should we also include information about the hash used, in case it
changes in the future?

> +
> +static const struct file_operations sel_policycksum_ops = {
> +	.read		= sel_read_policycksum,
> +	.llseek		= generic_file_llseek,
> +};
> +
> Â/* declaration for sel_write_load */
> Âstatic int sel_make_bools(void);
> Âstatic int sel_make_classes(void);
> @@ -1825,6 +1843,8 @@ static int sel_fill_super(struct super_block
> *sb, void *data, int silent)
> Â		[SEL_POLICY] = {"policy", &sel_policy_ops, S_IRUGO},
> Â		[SEL_VALIDATE_TRANS] = {"validatetrans",
> &sel_transition_ops,
> Â					S_IWUGO},
> +		[SEL_POLICYCKSUM] = {"policycksum",
> &sel_policycksum_ops,
> +				ÂÂÂÂÂS_IRUGO},
> Â		/* last one */ {""}
> Â	};
> Â	ret = simple_fill_super(sb, SELINUX_MAGIC, selinux_files);