Re: [PATCH security-next v3 14/29] LSM: Plumb visibility into optional "enabled" state

[James Morris]

On Mon, 24 Sep 2018, Kees Cook wrote:

> In preparation for lifting the "is this LSM enabled?" logic out of the
> individual LSMs, pass in any special enabled state tracking (as needed
> for SELinux, AppArmor, and LoadPin). This should be an "int" to include
> handling any future cases where "enabled" is exposed via sysctl which
> has no "bool" type.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 1 +
>  security/apparmor/lsm.c   | 5 +++--
>  security/selinux/hooks.c  | 1 +
>  3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> index 5056f7374b3d..2a41e8e6f6e5 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> @@ -2044,6 +2044,7 @@ extern void security_add_hooks(struct security_hook_list *hooks, int count,
>  struct lsm_info {
>  	const char *name;	/* Populated automatically. */
>  	unsigned long flags;	/* Optional: flags describing LSM */
> +	int *enabled;		/* Optional: NULL means enabled. */

This seems potentially confusing.

Perhaps initialize 'enabled' to a default int pointer, like:

	static int lsm_default_enabled = 1;

Then,

	DEFINE_LSM(foobar)
	flags = LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR,
	.enabled = &lsm_default_enabled,
	.init = foobar_init,
	END_LSM;



>  	int (*init)(void);
>  };
>  
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
> index 4c5f63e9aeba..d03133a267f2 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
> @@ -1303,8 +1303,8 @@ bool aa_g_paranoid_load = true;
>  module_param_named(paranoid_load, aa_g_paranoid_load, aabool, S_IRUGO);
>  
>  /* Boot time disable flag */
> -static bool apparmor_enabled = CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_BOOTPARAM_VALUE;
> -module_param_named(enabled, apparmor_enabled, bool, S_IRUGO);
> +static int apparmor_enabled = CONFIG_SECURITY_APPARMOR_BOOTPARAM_VALUE;
> +module_param_named(enabled, apparmor_enabled, int, 0444);
>  
>  static int __init apparmor_enabled_setup(char *str)
>  {
> @@ -1608,5 +1608,6 @@ static int __init apparmor_init(void)
>  
>  DEFINE_LSM(apparmor)
>  	.flags = LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR,
> +	.enabled = &apparmor_enabled,
>  	.init = apparmor_init,
>  END_LSM;
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 615cf6498c0f..3f999ed98cfd 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -7204,6 +7204,7 @@ void selinux_complete_init(void)
>     all processes and objects when they are created. */
>  DEFINE_LSM(selinux)
>  	.flags = LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR,
> +	.enabled = &selinux_enabled,
>  	.init = selinux_init,
>  END_LSM;
>  
> 

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>