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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/24] VFS: Add LSM hooks for filesystem context [ver #7]
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On 04/20/2018 11:35 AM, David Howells wrote:
> Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
>> Adding the SELinux mailing list to the CC line; in the future please
>> include the SELinux mailing list on patches like this. It would also
>> be very helpful to include "selinux" somewhere in the subject line
>> when the patch is predominately SELinux related (much like you did for
>> the other LSMs in this patchset).
>
> I should probably evict the SELinux bits into their own patch since the point
> of this patch is the LSM hooks, not specifically SELinux's implementation
> thereof.
>
>> I can't say I've digested all of this yet, but what SELinux testing
>> have you done with this patchset?
>
> Using the fsopen()/fsmount() syscalls, these hooks will be made use of, say
> for NFS (which I haven't included in this list). Even sys_mount() will make
> use of them a bit, so just booting the system does that.
>
> Note that for SELinux these hooks don't change very much except how the
> parameters are handled. It doesn't actually change the checks that are made -
> at least, not yet. There are some additional syscalls under consideration
> (such as the ability to pick a live mounted filesystem into a context) that
> might require additional permits.

Neither fsopen() nor fscontext_fs_write() appear to perform any kind of up-front
permission checking (DAC or MAC), although some security hooks may be ultimately called
to allocate structures, parse security options, etc. Is there a reason not apply a may_mount()
or similar check up front?

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