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| author | Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com> | 2026-08-21 01:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> | 2026-08-29 07:32:26 +0100 |
| commit | 78004e9a87f240df03e2f73120d291763c32e0a7 (patch) | |
| tree | 137c22dd795222931b9d2bf2501d37cd766741aa /Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst | |
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openrisc: fix arbitrary kernel memory access via or1k_atomic syscallgrafted
sys_or1k_atomic() (syscall 244 in the "or1k" ABI) takes two user
pointers, v1 and v2, and swaps the words they point to in hand-written
assembly.
l.lwz r29,0(r4)
l.lwz r27,0(r5)
l.sw 0(r4),r27
l.sw 0(r5),r29
The pointers are not checked with access_ok(). The four memory
accesses also have no exception table entries.
A caller passes a kernel address as either pointer, and the syscall
reads from and writes to it directly.
This gives an unprivileged process a kernel read/write primitive. It
overwrites kernel data such as the sys_call_table, gaining code
execution in kernel context.
Check both pointers before entering the critical section. Add fixups
for the four memory accesses so faults on valid but unmapped user
addresses return -EFAULT.
[shorne@gmail.com: fix comment style]
Fixes: 9d02a4283e9c ("OpenRISC: Boot code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a76da3738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation + +===================================== +Linux Security Modules +===================================== + +:Author: Casey Schaufler +:Date: July 2023 + +Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement +additional access controls to the Linux security policies. + +The various security modules may support any of these attributes: + +``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the +process. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``. +This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules. +Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``. + +``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current image was executed. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``. + +``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating file system objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating key objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current security context was set. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``. + +``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating socket objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +Kernel interface +================ + +Set a security attribute of the current process +----------------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr + +Get the specified security attributes of the current process +------------------------------------------------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules + +Additional documentation +======================== + +* Documentation/security/lsm.rst +* Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst |
