Re: [PATCH v5 13/16] ima: Move some IMA policy and filesystem related variables into ima_namespace

[Stefan Berger]

On 12/9/21 14:11, Christian Brauner wrote:
>  From 1f03dc427c583d5e9ebc9ebe9de77c3c535bbebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2021 20:07:02 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] !!!! HERE BE DRAGONS - UNTESTED !!!!
>
> ---
>   security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> index 583462b29cb5..d5b302b925b8 100644
> --- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> +++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
> @@ -317,10 +317,14 @@ static ssize_t ima_read_policy(char *path)
>   static ssize_t ima_write_policy(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
>   				size_t datalen, loff_t *ppos)
>   {
> -	struct ima_namespace *ns = get_current_ns();
> +	struct ima_namespace *ns;
> +	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
>   	char *data;
>   	ssize_t result;
>   
> +	user_ns = ima_filp_private(filp);
> +	ns = user_ns->ima_ns
> +
>   	if (datalen >= PAGE_SIZE)
>   		datalen = PAGE_SIZE - 1;
>   
> @@ -373,26 +377,51 @@ static const struct seq_operations ima_policy_seqops = {
>   };
>   #endif
>   
> +static struct user_namespace *ima_filp_private(struct file *filp)
> +{
> +	if (!(filp->f_flags & O_WRONLY)) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_IMA_READ_POLICY
> +		struct seq_file *seq;
> +
> +		seq = filp->private_data;
> +		return seq->private;
> +#endif
> +	}
> +	return filp->private_data;
> +}
> +
>   /*
>    * ima_open_policy: sequentialize access to the policy file
>    */
>   static int ima_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
>   {
> -	struct ima_namespace *ns = get_current_ns();
> +	struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();


Do we have to take a reference on the user namespace assuming one can 
open the file, pass the fd down the hierarchy, and then the user 
namespace with the opened file goes away? Or is there anything else that 
keeps the user namespace alive?