Add a mechanism to allow LSMs to make a policy decision around whether kernel functionality that would allow tampering with or examining the runtime state of the kernel should be permitted.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mj...@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <ca...@schaufler-ca.com> --- include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 2 ++ include/linux/security.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ security/security.c | 6 ++++++ 3 files changed, 40 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h index aebb0e032072..29c22cf40113 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h @@ -1807,6 +1807,7 @@ union security_list_options { int (*bpf_prog_alloc_security)(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux); void (*bpf_prog_free_security)(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux); #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */ + int (*locked_down)(enum lockdown_reason what); }; struct security_hook_heads { @@ -2046,6 +2047,7 @@ struct security_hook_heads { struct hlist_head bpf_prog_alloc_security; struct hlist_head bpf_prog_free_security; #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */ + struct hlist_head locked_down; } __randomize_layout; /* diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 66a2fcbe6ab0..c2b1204e8e26 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -77,6 +77,33 @@ enum lsm_event { LSM_POLICY_CHANGE, }; +/* + * These are reasons that can be passed to the security_locked_down() + * LSM hook. Lockdown reasons that protect kernel integrity (ie, the + * ability for userland to modify kernel code) are placed before + * LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX. Lockdown reasons that protect kernel + * confidentiality (ie, the ability for userland to extract + * information from the running kernel that would otherwise be + * restricted) are placed before LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX. + * + * LSM authors should note that the semantics of any given lockdown + * reason are not guaranteed to be stable - the same reason may block + * one set of features in one kernel release, and a slightly different + * set of features in a later kernel release. LSMs that seek to expose + * lockdown policy at any level of granularity other than "none", + * "integrity" or "confidentiality" are responsible for either + * ensuring that they expose a consistent level of functionality to + * userland, or ensuring that userland is aware that this is + * potentially a moving target. It is easy to misuse this information + * in a way that could break userspace. Please be careful not to do + * so. + */ +enum lockdown_reason { + LOCKDOWN_NONE, + LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX, + LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX, +}; + /* These functions are in security/commoncap.c */ extern int cap_capable(const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *ns, int cap, unsigned int opts); @@ -393,6 +420,7 @@ void security_inode_invalidate_secctx(struct inode *inode); int security_inode_notifysecctx(struct inode *inode, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen); int security_inode_setsecctx(struct dentry *dentry, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen); int security_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen); +int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what); #else /* CONFIG_SECURITY */ static inline int call_blocking_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data) @@ -1205,6 +1233,10 @@ static inline int security_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32 { return -EOPNOTSUPP; } +static inline int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what) +{ + return 0; +} #endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY */ #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 90f1e291c800..ce6c945bf347 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -2392,3 +2392,9 @@ void security_bpf_prog_free(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux) call_void_hook(bpf_prog_free_security, aux); } #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */ + +int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what) +{ + return call_int_hook(locked_down, 0, what); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_locked_down); -- 2.22.0.770.g0f2c4a37fd-goog