linux/security
Greg Kroah-Hartman 64e90a8acb Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper()
Some usermode helper applications are defined at kernel build time, while
others can be changed at runtime.  To provide a sane way to filter these, add a
new kernel option "STATIC_USERMODEHELPER".  This option routes all
call_usermodehelper() calls through this binary, no matter what the caller
wishes to have called.

The new binary (by default set to /sbin/usermode-helper, but can be changed
through the STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH option) can properly filter the
requested programs to be run by the kernel by looking at the first argument
that is passed to it.  All other options should then be passed onto the proper
program if so desired.

To disable all call_usermodehelper() calls by the kernel, set
STATIC_USERMODEHELPER_PATH to an empty string.

Thanks to Neil Brown for the idea of this feature.

Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-19 12:59:45 +01:00
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apparmor apparmor: fix change_hat not finding hat after policy replacement 2016-11-21 18:01:28 +11:00
integrity ima: platform-independent hash value 2016-12-20 09:48:46 -08:00
keys Make static usermode helper binaries constant 2017-01-19 12:59:45 +01:00
loadpin LSM: LoadPin: provide enablement CONFIG 2016-05-17 20:10:30 +10:00
selinux Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-12-22 10:03:52 -08:00
smack Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-12-16 10:24:44 -08:00
tomoyo mm: add locked parameter to get_user_pages_remote() 2016-12-14 16:04:08 -08:00
yama Yama: allow access for the current ptrace parent 2016-12-05 11:48:01 +11:00
commoncap.c xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers 2016-10-07 20:10:44 -04:00
device_cgroup.c security/device_cgroup: Fix RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() condition 2015-09-03 18:13:10 -07:00
inode.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-10-10 20:16:43 -07:00
Kconfig Introduce STATIC_USERMODEHELPER to mediate call_usermodehelper() 2017-01-19 12:59:45 +01:00
lsm_audit.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2016-10-04 14:48:27 -07:00
Makefile LSM: LoadPin for kernel file loading restrictions 2016-04-21 10:47:27 +10:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c security, overlayfs: Provide hook to correctly label newly created files 2016-08-08 20:46:46 -04:00