SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignment
The purpose of this patch is to assign per-thread security context
under a constraint. It enables multi-threaded server application
to kick a request handler with its fair security context, and
helps some of userspace object managers to handle user's request.
When we assign a per-thread security context, it must not have wider
permissions than the original one. Because a multi-threaded process
shares a single local memory, an arbitary per-thread security context
also means another thread can easily refer violated information.
The constraint on a per-thread security context requires a new domain
has to be equal or weaker than its original one, when it tries to assign
a per-thread security context.
Bounds relationship between two types is a way to ensure a domain can
never have wider permission than its bounds. We can define it in two
explicit or implicit ways.
The first way is using new TYPEBOUNDS statement. It enables to define
a boundary of types explicitly. The other one expand the concept of
existing named based hierarchy. If we defines a type with "." separated
name like "httpd_t.php", toolchain implicitly set its bounds on "httpd_t".
This feature requires a new policy version.
The 24th version (POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY) enables to ship them into
kernel space, and the following patch enables to handle it.
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/selinux/include/security.h b/security/selinux/include/security.h
index 7c54300..7244737 100644
--- a/security/selinux/include/security.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/security.h
@@ -27,13 +27,14 @@
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_RANGETRANS 21
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_POLCAP 22
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_PERMISSIVE 23
+#define POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY 24
/* Range of policy versions we understand*/
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MIN POLICYDB_VERSION_BASE
#ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX_VALUE
#else
-#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX POLICYDB_VERSION_PERMISSIVE
+#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY
#endif
#define CONTEXT_MNT 0x01
@@ -62,6 +63,16 @@
extern int selinux_policycap_netpeer;
extern int selinux_policycap_openperm;
+/*
+ * type_datum properties
+ * available at the kernel policy version >= POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY
+ */
+#define TYPEDATUM_PROPERTY_PRIMARY 0x0001
+#define TYPEDATUM_PROPERTY_ATTRIBUTE 0x0002
+
+/* limitation of boundary depth */
+#define POLICYDB_BOUNDS_MAXDEPTH 4
+
int security_load_policy(void *data, size_t len);
int security_policycap_supported(unsigned int req_cap);
@@ -117,6 +128,8 @@
int security_validate_transition(u32 oldsid, u32 newsid, u32 tasksid,
u16 tclass);
+int security_bounded_transition(u32 oldsid, u32 newsid);
+
int security_sid_mls_copy(u32 sid, u32 mls_sid, u32 *new_sid);
int security_net_peersid_resolve(u32 nlbl_sid, u32 nlbl_type,