Re: [PATCH v2] binder: use cred instead of task for selinux checks

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 05 2021 - 10:05:27 EST


On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 09:53:31AM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 9:31 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 10:55:21AM -0700, Todd Kjos wrote:
> > > Save the struct cred associated with a binder process
> > > at initial open to avoid potential race conditions
> > > when converting to a security ID.
> > >
> > > Since binder was integrated with selinux, it has passed
> > > 'struct task_struct' associated with the binder_proc
> > > to represent the source and target of transactions.
> > > The conversion of task to SID was then done in the hook
> > > implementations. It turns out that there are race conditions
> > > which can result in an incorrect security context being used.
> > >
> > > Fix by saving the 'struct cred' during binder_open and pass
> > > it to the selinux subsystem.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 79af73079d75 ("Add security hooks to binder and implement the
> > > hooks for SELinux.")
> > > Signed-off-by: Todd Kjos <tkjos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.14+ (need backport for earlier stables)
> > > ---
> > > v2: updated comments as suggested by Paul Moore
> > >
> > > drivers/android/binder.c | 14 +++++----
> > > drivers/android/binder_internal.h | 4 +++
> > > include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h | 14 ++++-----
> > > include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 14 ++++-----
> > > include/linux/security.h | 28 +++++++++---------
> > > security/security.c | 14 ++++-----
> > > security/selinux/hooks.c | 48 +++++++++----------------------
> > > 7 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
> >
> > Ideally I could get an ack from the security developers before taking
> > this in my tree...
>
> This should probably go in via one of the security trees, e.g. SELinux
> or LSM, rather than the binder/driver tree.

Fine with me, take it away!

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>