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Subject[PATCH 15/20] selinux: change handling of invalid classes (Was: Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 selinux whine)
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From: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Getting a few of these with FC5:
>
> SELinux: context_struct_compute_av: unrecognized class 69
> SELinux: context_struct_compute_av: unrecognized class 69
>
> one came out when I logged in.
>
> No other symptoms, yet.

Change handling of invalid classes by SELinux, reporting class values
unknown to the kernel as errors (w/ ratelimit applied) and handling
class values unknown to policy as normal denials.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
---
security/selinux/ss/services.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 543fd0f..04c0b70 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -407,9 +407,19 @@ static int context_struct_compute_av(struct context *scontext,
return 0;

inval_class:
- printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux: %s: unrecognized class %d\n", __func__,
- tclass);
- return -EINVAL;
+ if (!tclass || tclass > kdefs->cts_len ||
+ !kdefs->class_to_string[tclass]) {
+ if (printk_ratelimit())
+ printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux: %s: unrecognized class %d\n",
+ __func__, tclass);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Known to the kernel, but not to the policy.
+ * Handle as a denial (allowed is 0).
+ */
+ return 0;
}

/*
--
1.5.5.1


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