SELinux: How to split permissions for keys?

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Jan 23 2020 - 10:12:11 EST


Hi Stephen,

I have patches to split the permissions that are used for keys to make them a
bit finer grained and easier to use - and also to move to ACLs rather than
fixed masks. See patch "keys: Replace uid/gid/perm permissions checking with
an ACL" here:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=keys-acl

However, I may not have managed the permission mask transformation inside
SELinux correctly. Could you lend an eyeball? The change to the permissions
model is as follows:

The SETATTR permission is split to create two new permissions:

(1) SET_SECURITY - which allows the key's owner, group and ACL to be
changed and a restriction to be placed on a keyring.

(2) REVOKE - which allows a key to be revoked.

The SEARCH permission is split to create:

(1) SEARCH - which allows a keyring to be search and a key to be found.

(2) JOIN - which allows a keyring to be joined as a session keyring.

(3) INVAL - which allows a key to be invalidated.

The WRITE permission is also split to create:

(1) WRITE - which allows a key's content to be altered and links to be
added, removed and replaced in a keyring.

(2) CLEAR - which allows a keyring to be cleared completely. This is
split out to make it possible to give just this to an administrator.

(3) REVOKE - see above.

The change to SELinux is attached below.

Should the split be pushed down into the SELinux policy rather than trying to
calculate it?

Thanks,
David
---
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 116b4d644f68..c8db5235b01f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -6556,6 +6556,7 @@ static int selinux_key_permission(key_ref_t key_ref,
{
struct key *key;
struct key_security_struct *ksec;
+ unsigned oldstyle_perm;
u32 sid;

/* if no specific permissions are requested, we skip the
@@ -6564,13 +6565,26 @@ static int selinux_key_permission(key_ref_t key_ref,
if (perm == 0)
return 0;

+ oldstyle_perm = perm & (KEY_NEED_VIEW | KEY_NEED_READ | KEY_NEED_WRITE |
+ KEY_NEED_SEARCH | KEY_NEED_LINK);
+ if (perm & KEY_NEED_SETSEC)
+ oldstyle_perm |= OLD_KEY_NEED_SETATTR;
+ if (perm & KEY_NEED_INVAL)
+ oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_SEARCH;
+ if (perm & KEY_NEED_REVOKE && !(perm & OLD_KEY_NEED_SETATTR))
+ oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_WRITE;
+ if (perm & KEY_NEED_JOIN)
+ oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_SEARCH;
+ if (perm & KEY_NEED_CLEAR)
+ oldstyle_perm |= KEY_NEED_WRITE;
+
sid = cred_sid(cred);

key = key_ref_to_ptr(key_ref);
ksec = key->security;

return avc_has_perm(&selinux_state,
- sid, ksec->sid, SECCLASS_KEY, perm, NULL);
+ sid, ksec->sid, SECCLASS_KEY, oldstyle_perm, NULL);
}

static int selinux_key_getsecurity(struct key *key, char **_buffer)