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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 1/1] security: Add mechanism to safely (un)load LSMs after boot time
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp> wrote:
> Sargun Dhillon wrote:
>> > Remove SECURITY_HOOK_COUNT and "struct security_hook_list"->owner and
>> > the exception in randomize_layout_plugin.c because preventing module
>> > unloading won't work as expected.
>> >
>>
>> Rather than completely removing the unloading code, might it make
>> sense to add a BUG_ON or WARN_ON, in security_delete_hooks if
>> allow_unload_module is false, and owner is not NULL?
>
> Do we need to check ->owner != NULL? Although it will be true that
> SELinux's ->owner == NULL and LKM-based LSM module's ->owner != NULL,
> I think we unregister SELinux before setting allow_unload_module to false.
> Thus, rejecting delete_security_hooks() if allow_unload_module == false will
> be sufficient. SELinux might want to call panic() if delete_security_hooks()
> did not unregister due to allow_unload_module == false. Also,
> allow_unload_module would be renamed to allow_unregister_module.
>
> By the way, please don't use BUG_ON() or WARN_ON() because syzbot would hit
> and call panic() because syzbot runs tests with panic_on_warn == true.

I think my primary question is for the SELinux folks -- what do you
think the behaviour should be? If allow_unload_modules /
allow_unregister_module is set, do you want to be able to call
security_delete_hooks? What do you think the right
action should be if it fails?

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