Re: [AppArmor 39/41] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation,pathname matching

[Alan Cox]

> don't actually have to care --- if loading an invalid profile can bring down 
> the system, then that's no worse than an arbitrary module that crashes the 
> machine. Not sure if there will ever be user loadable profiles; at least at 
> that point we had to care.

CAP_SYS_RAWIO is needed to do arbitary patching/loading in the capability
model so if you are using lesser capabilities it is a (minor) capability
rise but not a big problem, just ugly and wanting a fix

> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * Replacement needs to allocate a new aa_task_context for each
> > > +	 * task confined by old_profile.  To do this the profile locks
> > > +	 * are only held when the actual switch is done per task.  While
> > > +	 * looping to allocate a new aa_task_context the old_task list
> > > +	 * may get shorter if tasks exit/change their profile but will
> > > +	 * not get longer as new task will not use old_profile detecting
> > > +	 * that is stale.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	do {
> > > +		new_cxt = aa_alloc_task_context(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOFAIL);
> > 
> > NOFAIL is usually a bad sign. It should be only used if there is no
> > alternative.
> 
> At this point there is no secure alternative to allocating a task context --- 
> except killing the task, maybe.

Can you count the number needed, preallocate them and then when you know
for sure either succeed or fail the operation as a whole ?
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