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authorChristian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com>2024-04-05 17:50:33 +0200
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2024-05-01 01:01:04 +0200
commitfc983171e4c82460c0c16b65987d1c2ed76de2c7 (patch)
tree0af8f3c1a309e4dde7afc8f5108a4dd3b31eca3c /security
parentselinux: clarify return code in filename_trans_read_helper_compat() (diff)
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selinux: pre-allocate the status page
Since the status page is currently only allocated on first use, the sequence number of the initial policyload (i.e. 1) is not stored, leading to the observable sequence of 0, 2, 3, 4, ... Try to pre-allocate the status page during the initialization of the selinuxfs, so selinux_status_update_policyload() will set the sequence number. This brings the status page to return the actual sequence number for the initial policy load, which is also observable via the netlink socket. I could not find any occurrence where userspace depends on the actual value returned by selinux_status_policyload(3), thus the breakage should be unnoticed. Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/87o7fmua12.fsf@redhat.com/ Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@googlemail.com> [PM: trimmed 'reported-by' that was missing an email] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/selinuxfs.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index d18581d741e8..17a2df4d5eb9 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -2161,6 +2161,12 @@ static int __init init_sel_fs(void)
selinux_null.dentry = NULL;
}
+ /*
+ * Try to pre-allocate the status page, so the sequence number of the
+ * initial policy load can be stored.
+ */
+ (void) selinux_kernel_status_page();
+
return err;
}