Paul Moore paul@paul-moore.com writes:
On July 22, 2022 2:12:03 AM Martin KaFai Lau kafai@fb.com wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 12:28:04PM -0500, Frederick Lawler wrote:
While creating a LSM BPF MAC policy to block user namespace creation, we used the LSM cred_prepare hook because that is the closest hook to prevent a call to create_user_ns().
The calls look something like this:
cred = prepare_creds() security_prepare_creds() call_int_hook(cred_prepare, ... if (cred) create_user_ns(cred)
We noticed that error codes were not propagated from this hook and introduced a patch [1] to propagate those errors.
The discussion notes that security_prepare_creds() is not appropriate for MAC policies, and instead the hook is meant for LSM authors to prepare credentials for mutation. [2]
Ultimately, we concluded that a better course of action is to introduce a new security hook for LSM authors. [3]
This patch set first introduces a new security_create_user_ns() function and userns_create LSM hook, then marks the hook as sleepable in BPF.
Patch 1 and 4 still need review from the lsm/security side.
This patchset is in my review queue and assuming everything checks out, I expect to merge it after the upcoming merge window closes.
It doesn't even address my issues with the last patchset.
So it has my NACK.
Eric