From 2e72d51b4ac32989496870cd8171b3682fea1839 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 07:32:07 +1030 Subject: security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook Now that kernel module origins can be reasoned about, provide a hook to the LSMs to make policy decisions about the module file. This will let Chrome OS enforce that loadable kernel modules can only come from its read-only hash-verified root filesystem. Other LSMs can, for example, read extended attributes for signatures, etc. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Acked-by: Eric Paris Acked-by: Mimi Zohar Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell --- security/capability.c | 6 ++++++ security/security.c | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'security') diff --git a/security/capability.c b/security/capability.c index b14a30c234b..0fe5a026aef 100644 --- a/security/capability.c +++ b/security/capability.c @@ -395,6 +395,11 @@ static int cap_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name) return 0; } +static int cap_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file) +{ + return 0; +} + static int cap_task_setpgid(struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid) { return 0; @@ -967,6 +972,7 @@ void __init security_fixup_ops(struct security_operations *ops) set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_act_as); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_create_files_as); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_module_request); + set_to_cap_if_null(ops, kernel_module_from_file); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_fix_setuid); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_setpgid); set_to_cap_if_null(ops, task_getpgid); diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 8dcd4ae10a5..ce88630de15 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -820,6 +820,11 @@ int security_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name) return security_ops->kernel_module_request(kmod_name); } +int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file) +{ + return security_ops->kernel_module_from_file(file); +} + int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old, int flags) { -- cgit v1.2.3