Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdown: Switch implementation to using bitmap

From: Nikolay Borisov
Date: Wed Apr 09 2025 - 11:26:13 EST




On 21.03.25 г. 22:34 ч., sergeh@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 12:24:20PM +0200, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
Tracking the lockdown at the depth granularity rather than at the
individual is somewhat inflexible as it provides an "all or nothing"
approach. Instead there are use cases where it will be useful to be
able to lockdown individual features - TDX for example wants to disable
access to just /dev/mem.

To accommodate this use case switch the internal implementation to using
a bitmap so that individual lockdown features can be turned on. At the
same time retain the existing semantic where
INTEGRITY_MAX/CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX are treated as wildcards meaning "lock
everything below me".

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nik.borisov@xxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Serge Hallyn <sergeh@xxxxxxxxxx>

but one comment below

---
security/lockdown/lockdown.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index cf83afa1d879..5014d18c423f 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -10,12 +10,13 @@
* 2 of the Licence, or (at your option) any later version.
*/
+#include <linux/bitmap.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/lsm_hooks.h>
#include <uapi/linux/lsm.h>
-static enum lockdown_reason kernel_locked_down;
+static DECLARE_BITMAP(kernel_locked_down, LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX);
static const enum lockdown_reason lockdown_levels[] = {LOCKDOWN_NONE,
LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
@@ -26,10 +27,15 @@ static const enum lockdown_reason lockdown_levels[] = {LOCKDOWN_NONE,
*/
static int lock_kernel_down(const char *where, enum lockdown_reason level)
{
- if (kernel_locked_down >= level)
- return -EPERM;
- kernel_locked_down = level;
+ if (level > LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ if (level == LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX || level == LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX)
+ bitmap_set(kernel_locked_down, 1, level);
+ else
+ bitmap_set(kernel_locked_down, level, 1);
+
pr_notice("Kernel is locked down from %s; see man kernel_lockdown.7\n",
where);
return 0;
@@ -62,13 +68,12 @@ static int lockdown_is_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what)
"Invalid lockdown reason"))
return -EPERM;
- if (kernel_locked_down >= what) {
+ if (test_bit(what, kernel_locked_down)) {
if (lockdown_reasons[what])
pr_notice_ratelimited("Lockdown: %s: %s is restricted; see man kernel_lockdown.7\n",
current->comm, lockdown_reasons[what]);
return -EPERM;
}
-
return 0;
}
@@ -105,7 +110,7 @@ static ssize_t lockdown_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,

Context here is:

static ssize_t lockdown_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
loff_t *ppos)
{
char temp[80] = "";
int i, offset = 0;

for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(lockdown_levels); i++) {
enum lockdown_reason level = lockdown_levels[i];

...

if (lockdown_reasons[level]) {
const char *label = lockdown_reasons[level];
- if (kernel_locked_down == level)
+ if (test_bit(level, kernel_locked_down))

Right now this is still just looping over the lockdown_levels, and so
it can't get longer than "none [integrity] [confidentiality]" which fits
easily into the 80 chars of temp. But I'm worried that someone will
change this loop i a way that violates that. Could you just switch
this to a snprintf that checks its result for < 0 and >= n , or some
other sanity check?

How about the following:

diff --git a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
index 412184121279..47b47c4f7b98 100644
--- a/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
+++ b/security/lockdown/lockdown.c
@@ -114,9 +114,9 @@ static ssize_t lockdown_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count,
const char *label = lockdown_reasons[level];
if (test_bit(level, kernel_locked_down))
- offset += sprintf(temp+offset, "[%s] ", label);
+ offset += snprintf(temp+offset, 80-offset, "[%s] ", label);
else
- offset += sprintf(temp+offset, "%s ", label);
+ offset += snprintf(temp+offset, 80-offset, "%s ", label);
}
}

It prevents buffer overflow but doesn't prevent buffer truncation.


offset += sprintf(temp+offset, "[%s] ", label);
else
offset += sprintf(temp+offset, "%s ", label);
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