Leaking path or inconsistency LSM checking observed in fs/net

[Stephen Smalley]

On 09/25/2018 01:27 PM, Tong Zhang wrote:
> Kernel Version: 4.18.5
>
> Problem Description:
>
> We found several leaking path or inconsistency LSM design issue in fs/net.
>
> Currently we can only observe sock creation from kernel and all bind/listen/connect are not sent to LSM.
> So, we think that those net/socket related stuff should all go through LSM check and being audited
> even it is not a user thread or process.
>
>
> Hereâs an example where we have a check:
> in fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c:2035 o2net_open_listening_sock() a sock is created using sock_create(),
> where a LSM check security_socket_create is called(net/socket.c:1242)
>
>
> And where we donât have a check
>
> fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c:2052 bind
> fs/ocfs2/cluster/tcp.c:2059 listen
>
> fs/dlm/lowcomms.c:1264 bind
> fs/dlm/lowcomms.c:1278 listen
> fs/dlm/lowcomms.c:1354 listen
>
> several places that use kernel_bind/kernel_listen/kernel_connect
>
> net/socket.c:3231 kernel_bind
> net/socket.c:3237 kernel_listen
> net/socket.c:3286 kernel_connect

That's intentional.  LSM isn't trying to mediate kernel-internal 
operations, and we do not want to apply permission checks against the 
credentials of the current userspace process for such operations.  ocfs2 
should likely be using sock_create_kern.