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authorChristian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>2023-05-11 14:32:52 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2023-09-23 10:59:39 +0200
commit3899c1d158c52397ad38d54b6821db21442c1389 (patch)
tree90cfe6b37583ae651b2e582e6c84651439622649 /security
parent97ed1be29bf0c34fd53e85bd84bc6ebd648a8e7c (diff)
security: keys: perform capable check only on privileged operations
[ Upstream commit 2d7f105edbb3b2be5ffa4d833abbf9b6965e9ce7 ] If the current task fails the check for the queried capability via `capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)` LSMs like SELinux generate a denial message. Issuing such denial messages unnecessarily can lead to a policy author granting more privileges to a subject than needed to silence them. Reorder CAP_SYS_ADMIN checks after the check whether the operation is actually privileged. Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/keyctl.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index edde63a63007..f42968f34958 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -977,14 +977,19 @@ long keyctl_chown_key(key_serial_t id, uid_t user, gid_t group)
ret = -EACCES;
down_write(&key->sem);
- if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
+ {
+ bool is_privileged_op = false;
+
/* only the sysadmin can chown a key to some other UID */
if (user != (uid_t) -1 && !uid_eq(key->uid, uid))
- goto error_put;
+ is_privileged_op = true;
/* only the sysadmin can set the key's GID to a group other
* than one of those that the current process subscribes to */
if (group != (gid_t) -1 && !gid_eq(gid, key->gid) && !in_group_p(gid))
+ is_privileged_op = true;
+
+ if (is_privileged_op && !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
goto error_put;
}
@@ -1084,7 +1089,7 @@ long keyctl_setperm_key(key_serial_t id, key_perm_t perm)
down_write(&key->sem);
/* if we're not the sysadmin, we can only change a key that we own */
- if (capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) || uid_eq(key->uid, current_fsuid())) {
+ if (uid_eq(key->uid, current_fsuid()) || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) {
key->perm = perm;
ret = 0;
}