Commit 89243365 authored by Ondrej Mosnacek's avatar Ondrej Mosnacek Committed by Andrew Morton
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ipc: don't audit capability check in ipc_permissions() 

The IPC sysctls implement the ctl_table_root::permissions hook and they
override the file access mode based on the CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE
capability, which is being checked regardless of whether any access is
actually denied or not, so if an LSM denies the capability, an audit
record may be logged even when access is in fact granted.

It wouldn't be viable to restructure the sysctl permission logic to only
check the capability when the access would be actually denied if it's not
granted.  Thus, do the same as in net_ctl_permissions() (net/sysctl_net.c)
- switch from ns_capable() to ns_capable_noaudit(), so that the check
never emits an audit record.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260122141303.241133-1-omosnace@redhat.com


Fixes: 0889f44e ("ipc: Check permissions for checkpoint_restart sysctls at open time")
Signed-off-by: default avatarOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 480e1d5c

include/linux/capability.h

+6 −0
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@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ static inline bool checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(struct user_namespace *ns) 
		ns_capable(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);

}



static inline bool checkpoint_restore_ns_capable_noaudit(struct user_namespace *ns)

{

	return ns_capable_noaudit(ns, CAP_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE) ||

		ns_capable_noaudit(ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);

}



/* audit system wants to get cap info from files as well */

int get_vfs_caps_from_disk(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,

			   const struct dentry *dentry,

ipc/ipc_sysctl.c

+1 −1
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@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ static int ipc_permissions(struct ctl_table_header *head, const struct ctl_table 
	if (((table->data == &ns->ids[IPC_SEM_IDS].next_id) ||

	     (table->data == &ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].next_id) ||

	     (table->data == &ns->ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].next_id)) &&

	    checkpoint_restore_ns_capable(ns->user_ns))

	    checkpoint_restore_ns_capable_noaudit(ns->user_ns))

		mode = 0666;

	else

#endif