Re: [PATCH 4.9 45/47] Smack: Dont ignore other bprm->unsafe flags if LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE is set

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 12 2019 - 12:06:55 EST


On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 03:50:07PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2019-10-06 at 19:21 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 3675f052b43ba51b99b85b073c7070e083f3e6fb upstream.
> [...]
> > --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
> > @@ -949,7 +949,8 @@ static int smack_bprm_set_creds(struct l
> >
> > if (rc != 0)
> > return rc;
> > - } else if (bprm->unsafe)
> > + }
> > + if (bprm->unsafe & ~LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE)
>
> I think this needs to be ~(LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE | LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP)
> for 4.9 and older branches.

Why? Where did the LSM_UNSAFE_PTRACE_CAP requirement come from (or
really, go away?)

thanks,

greg k-h