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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/7] security: rename security_kernel_read_file() hook
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> writes:

> On Fri, 25 May 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
>> James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> writes:
>>
>> > On Thu, 24 May 2018, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> >
>> >> Below is where I suggest you start on sorting out these security hooks.
>> >> - Adding a security_kernel_arg to catch when you want to allow/deny the
>> >> use of an argument to a syscall. What security_kernel_file_read and
>> >> security_kernel_file_post_read have been abused for.
>> >
>> > NAK. This abstraction is too semantically weak.
>> >
>> > LSM hooks need to map to stronger semantics so we can reason about what
>> > the hook and the policy is supposed to be mediating.
>>
>> I will take that as an extremely weak nack as all I did was expose the
>> existing code and what the code is currently doing. I don't see how you
>> can NAK what is already being merged and used.
>
> It's a strong NAK.

We are either not understading each other or you have just strong NAK'd
part of the existing LSM api. Not my proposal.

> LSM is a logical API, it provides an abstraction layer for security
> policies to mediate kernel security behaviors.

The way it deals with firmware blobs and module loading is not logical.
It is some random pass a NULL pointer into some other security hook.

> Adding an argument to a syscall is not a security behavior.
>
> Loading a firmware file is.

It is a firmware blob not a file. Perhaps the blob is stored as a file
on-disk, perhaps it is not.

The similar case with kexec never stores all of the data in a file.

Why module_init (which does not take a file) is calling a file based lsm
hook is also bizarre.


Perhaps that means all 3 of these cases should have their own void
security hooks. Perhaps it means something else. I just know the name
on the security hook, how it is getting called, and how it is getting
used simply do not agree.

Eric

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