Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] lsm: separate security_task_getsecid() into subjective and objective variants

On 2/19/21 3:29 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > Of the three LSMs that implement the security_task_getsecid() LSM > hook, all three LSMs provide the task's objective security > credentials. This turns out to be unfortunate as most of the hook's > callers seem to expect the task's subjective credentials, although > a small handful of callers do correctly expect the objective > credentials. > > This patch is the first step towards fixing the problem: it splits > the existing security_task_getsecid() hook into two variants, one > for the subjective creds, one for the objective creds. > > void security_task_getsecid_subj(struct task_struct *p, > u32 *secid); > void security_task_getsecid_obj(struct task_struct *p, > u32 *secid); > > While this patch does fix all of the callers to use the correct > variant, in order to keep this patch focused on the callers and to > ease review, the LSMs continue to use the same implementation for > both hooks. The net effect is that this patch should not change > the behavior of the kernel in any way, it will be up to the latter > LSM specific patches in this series to change the hook > implementations and return the correct credentials. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul(a)paul-moore.com&gt; Reviewed-by: John Johansen <john.johansen(a)canonical.com&gt;