linux/security
Aristeu Rozanski ad676077a2 device_cgroup: convert device_cgroup internally to policy + exceptions
The original model of device_cgroup is having a whitelist where all the
allowed devices are listed. The problem with this approach is that is
impossible to have the case of allowing everything but few devices.

The reason for that lies in the way the whitelist is handled internally:
since there's only a whitelist, the "all devices" entry would have to be
removed and replaced by the entire list of possible devices but the ones
that are being denied.  Since dev_t is 32 bits long, representing the allowed
devices as a bitfield is not memory efficient.

This patch replaces the "whitelist" by a "exceptions" list and the default
policy is kept as "deny_all" variable in dev_cgroup structure.

The current interface determines that whenever "a" is written to devices.allow
or devices.deny, the entry masking all devices will be added or removed,
respectively. This behavior is kept and it's what will determine the default
policy:

	# cat devices.list
	a *:* rwm
	# echo a >devices.deny
	# cat devices.list
	# echo a >devices.allow
	# cat devices.list
	a *:* rwm

The interface is also preserved. For example, if one wants to block only access
to /dev/null:
	# ls -l /dev/null
	crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 24 16:17 /dev/null
	# echo a >devices.allow
	# echo "c 1:3 rwm" >devices.deny
	# cat /dev/null
	cat: /dev/null: Operation not permitted
	# echo >/dev/null
	bash: /dev/null: Operation not permitted
	mknod /tmp/null c 1 3
	mknod: `/tmp/null': Operation not permitted
	# echo "c 1:3 r" >devices.allow
	# cat /dev/null
	# echo >/dev/null
	bash: /dev/null: Operation not permitted
	mknod /tmp/null c 1 3
	mknod: `/tmp/null': Operation not permitted
	# echo "c 1:3 rw" >devices.allow
	# echo >/dev/null
	# cat /dev/null
	# mknod /tmp/null c 1 3
	mknod: `/tmp/null': Operation not permitted
	# echo "c 1:3 rwm" >devices.allow
	# echo >/dev/null
	# cat /dev/null
	# mknod /tmp/null c 1 3
	#

Note that I didn't rename the functions/variables in this patch, but in the
next one to make reviewing easier.

Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-10-06 03:05:14 +09:00
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apparmor Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2012-10-02 11:11:09 -07:00
integrity Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-10-02 21:38:48 -07:00
keys Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-10-02 21:38:48 -07:00
selinux Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2012-10-02 20:25:04 -07:00
smack Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix 2012-09-18 09:51:06 -07:00
tomoyo userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids 2012-09-21 03:13:25 -07:00
yama Linux 3.6-rc7 2012-09-28 13:37:32 +10:00
capability.c userns: Teach security_path_chown to take kuids and kgids 2012-09-21 03:13:25 -07:00
commoncap.c split ->file_mmap() into ->mmap_addr()/->mmap_file() 2012-05-31 13:11:54 -04:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: convert device_cgroup internally to policy + exceptions 2012-10-06 03:05:14 +09:00
inode.c securityfs: fix object creation races 2012-01-10 10:20:35 -05:00
Kconfig KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig 2012-05-11 10:56:56 +01:00
lsm_audit.c LSM: BUILD_BUG_ON if the common_audit_data union ever grows 2012-04-09 12:23:03 -04:00
Makefile security: Yama LSM 2012-02-10 09:18:52 +11:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2012-10-02 21:38:48 -07:00