Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] ramfs: Initialize security of in-memory inodes

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 09:01:52 +0100 Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2023-07-24 at 17:13 +0200, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Add a call security_inode_init_security() after ramfs_get_inode(), to let
> > LSMs initialize the inode security field. Skip ramfs_fill_super(), as the
> > initialization is done through the sb_set_mnt_opts hook.
> > 
> > Calling security_inode_init_security() call inside ramfs_get_inode() is
> > not possible since, for CONFIG_SHMEM=n, tmpfs also calls the former after
> > the latter.
> > 
> > Pass NULL as initxattrs() callback to security_inode_init_security(), since
> > the purpose of the call is only to initialize the in-memory inodes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> + Andrew
> 
> Hi Andrew
> 
> I'm proposing an extension to initialize the inode security field at
> inode creation time for filesystems that don't support xattrs (ramfs in
> this case).
> 
> The LSM infrastructure already supports setting the inode security
> field, but only at run-time, with the inode_setsecurity hook.
> 
> I developed this to do some testing on the Smack LSM, and I thought it
> could be useful anyway.
> 
> Casey would need your acked-by, to carry this patch in his repository.
> I'm not completely sure if you are the maintainer, but in the past you
> accepted a patch for ramfs.
> 
> If you have time and you could have a look, that would be great!

Patch looks OK to me.  Please cc Hugh and myself on a resend.

One little thing:

> > +++ b/fs/ramfs/inode.c
> > @@ -102,6 +102,14 @@ ramfs_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
> >  	int error = -ENOSPC;
> >  
> >  	if (inode) {
> > +		error = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir,
> > +						     &dentry->d_name, NULL,
> > +						     NULL);
> > +		if (error) {
> > +			iput(inode);
> > +			return error;

A `break' here would be better.  To avoid having multiple return
points, which are often a maintenance hassle.  Same treatment at
the other sites.