linux-stable/security
Stephen Smalley 461698026f selinux: encapsulate policy state, refactor policy load
Encapsulate the policy state in its own structure (struct
selinux_policy) that is separately allocated but referenced from the
selinux_ss structure.  The policy state includes the SID table
(particularly the context structures), the policy database, and the
mapping between the kernel classes/permissions and the policy values.
Refactor the security server portion of the policy load logic to
cleanly separate loading of the new structures from committing the new
policy.  Unify the initial policy load and reload code paths as much
as possible, avoiding duplicated code.  Make sure we are taking the
policy read-lock prior to any dereferencing of the policy.  Move the
copying of the policy capability booleans into the state structure
outside of the policy write-lock because they are separate from the
policy and are read outside of any policy lock; possibly they should
be using at least READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE or smp_load_acquire/store_release.

These changes simplify the policy loading logic, reduce the size of
the critical section while holding the policy write-lock, and should
facilitate future changes to e.g. refactor the entire policy reload
logic including the selinuxfs code to make the updating of the policy
and the selinuxfs directory tree atomic and/or to convert the policy
read-write lock to RCU.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-08-17 20:48:57 -04:00
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apparmor Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
bpf bpf: lsm: Initialize the BPF LSM hooks 2020-03-30 01:34:00 +02:00
integrity Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
keys Minor fixes for v5.9. 2020-08-11 14:30:36 -07:00
loadpin block: move block-related definitions out of fs.h 2020-06-24 09:16:02 -06:00
lockdown Merge branch 'next-general' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2020-06-02 17:36:24 -07:00
safesetid security/safesetid: Replace rcu_swap_protected() with rcu_replace_pointer() 2019-10-30 08:45:57 -07:00
selinux selinux: encapsulate policy state, refactor policy load 2020-08-17 20:48:57 -04:00
smack Smack: prevent underflow in smk_set_cipso() 2020-07-27 13:35:12 -07:00
tomoyo mm/gup: remove task_struct pointer for all gup code 2020-08-12 10:58:04 -07:00
yama sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
commoncap.c exec: Compute file based creds only once 2020-05-29 22:00:54 -05:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
inode.c Merge branch 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-07-19 10:42:02 -07:00
Kconfig Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: security 2020-08-06 12:00:05 -07:00
Kconfig.hardening security: allow using Clang's zero initialization for stack variables 2020-06-16 02:06:23 -07:00
lsm_audit.c audit: purge audit_log_string from the intra-kernel audit API 2020-07-21 11:12:31 -04:00
Makefile device_cgroup: Cleanup cgroup eBPF device filter code 2020-04-13 14:41:54 -04:00
min_addr.c sysctl: pass kernel pointers to ->proc_handler 2020-04-27 02:07:40 -04:00
security.c security: Fix hook iteration and default value for inode_copy_up_xattr 2020-06-23 16:39:23 -07:00