security: Add a "locked down" LSM hook

Add a mechanism to allow LSMs to make a policy decision around whether
kernel functionality that would allow tampering with or examining the
runtime state of the kernel should be permitted.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index b02e8bb6654d6bd32de111342d86e16e777359ad..2f4ba9062fb8803cce896af3ae7593d0ae38ddfc 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -1446,6 +1446,11 @@
  * @bpf_prog_free_security:
  *     Clean up the security information stored inside bpf prog.
  *
+ * @locked_down
+ *     Determine whether a kernel feature that potentially enables arbitrary
+ *     code execution in kernel space should be permitted.
+ *
+ *     @what: kernel feature being accessed
  */
 union security_list_options {
        int (*binder_set_context_mgr)(struct task_struct *mgr);
@@ -1807,6 +1812,7 @@ union security_list_options {
        int (*bpf_prog_alloc_security)(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux);
        void (*bpf_prog_free_security)(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux);
 #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */
+       int (*locked_down)(enum lockdown_reason what);
 };
 
 struct security_hook_heads {
@@ -2046,6 +2052,7 @@ struct security_hook_heads {
        struct hlist_head bpf_prog_alloc_security;
        struct hlist_head bpf_prog_free_security;
 #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */
+       struct hlist_head locked_down;
 } __randomize_layout;
 
 /*

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index c5dd90981c98be9685e5f038eb97af4e91ac8597..04cf48fab15d1dd5c1b767cb73a73dcb3a3dc224 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -77,6 +77,33 @@ enum lsm_event {
        LSM_POLICY_CHANGE,
 };
 
+/*
+ * These are reasons that can be passed to the security_locked_down()
+ * LSM hook. Lockdown reasons that protect kernel integrity (ie, the
+ * ability for userland to modify kernel code) are placed before
+ * LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX.  Lockdown reasons that protect kernel
+ * confidentiality (ie, the ability for userland to extract
+ * information from the running kernel that would otherwise be
+ * restricted) are placed before LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX.
+ *
+ * LSM authors should note that the semantics of any given lockdown
+ * reason are not guaranteed to be stable - the same reason may block
+ * one set of features in one kernel release, and a slightly different
+ * set of features in a later kernel release. LSMs that seek to expose
+ * lockdown policy at any level of granularity other than "none",
+ * "integrity" or "confidentiality" are responsible for either
+ * ensuring that they expose a consistent level of functionality to
+ * userland, or ensuring that userland is aware that this is
+ * potentially a moving target. It is easy to misuse this information
+ * in a way that could break userspace. Please be careful not to do
+ * so.
+ */
+enum lockdown_reason {
+       LOCKDOWN_NONE,
+       LOCKDOWN_INTEGRITY_MAX,
+       LOCKDOWN_CONFIDENTIALITY_MAX,
+};
+
 /* These functions are in security/commoncap.c */
 extern int cap_capable(const struct cred *cred, struct user_namespace *ns,
                       int cap, unsigned int opts);
@@ -393,6 +420,7 @@ void security_inode_invalidate_secctx(struct inode *inode);
 int security_inode_notifysecctx(struct inode *inode, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen);
 int security_inode_setsecctx(struct dentry *dentry, void *ctx, u32 ctxlen);
 int security_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32 *ctxlen);
+int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what);
 #else /* CONFIG_SECURITY */
 
 static inline int call_lsm_notifier(enum lsm_event event, void *data)
@@ -1210,6 +1238,10 @@ static inline int security_inode_getsecctx(struct inode *inode, void **ctx, u32
 {
        return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 }
+static inline int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what)
+{
+       return 0;
+}
 #endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK

diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index ef4a0111c8b4f19a29d237fcf2dc84a909f14aaa..7fc373486d7ad92335c5aab2fb53a49cb87e8aff 100644 (file)
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -2389,3 +2389,9 @@ void security_bpf_prog_free(struct bpf_prog_aux *aux)
        call_void_hook(bpf_prog_free_security, aux);
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL */
+
+int security_locked_down(enum lockdown_reason what)
+{
+       return call_int_hook(locked_down, 0, what);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_locked_down);