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-rw-r--r--security/selinux/hooks.c27
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index 4be156334b2..91b666aec45 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -2754,9 +2754,7 @@ static int selinux_inode_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name)
}
/*
- * Copy the in-core inode security context value to the user. If the
- * getxattr() prior to this succeeded, check to see if we need to
- * canonicalize the value to be finally returned to the user.
+ * Copy the inode security context value to the user.
*
* Permission check is handled by selinux_inode_getxattr hook.
*/
@@ -2765,12 +2763,33 @@ static int selinux_inode_getsecurity(const struct inode *inode, const char *name
u32 size;
int error;
char *context = NULL;
+ struct task_security_struct *tsec = current->security;
struct inode_security_struct *isec = inode->i_security;
if (strcmp(name, XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- error = security_sid_to_context(isec->sid, &context, &size);
+ /*
+ * If the caller has CAP_MAC_ADMIN, then get the raw context
+ * value even if it is not defined by current policy; otherwise,
+ * use the in-core value under current policy.
+ * Use the non-auditing forms of the permission checks since
+ * getxattr may be called by unprivileged processes commonly
+ * and lack of permission just means that we fall back to the
+ * in-core context value, not a denial.
+ */
+ error = secondary_ops->capable(current, CAP_MAC_ADMIN);
+ if (!error)
+ error = avc_has_perm_noaudit(tsec->sid, tsec->sid,
+ SECCLASS_CAPABILITY2,
+ CAPABILITY2__MAC_ADMIN,
+ 0,
+ NULL);
+ if (!error)
+ error = security_sid_to_context_force(isec->sid, &context,
+ &size);
+ else
+ error = security_sid_to_context(isec->sid, &context, &size);
if (error)
return error;
error = size;