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Linus Torvalds
233a806b00 Merge tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This was a reasonably active cycle for documentation; this includes:

   - Some kernel-doc cleanups. That script is still regex onslaught from
     hell, but it has gotten a little better.

   - Improvements to the checkpatch docs, which are also used by the
     tool itself.

   - A major update to the pathname lookup documentation.

   - Elimination of :doc: markup, since our automarkup magic can create
     references from filenames without all the extra noise.

   - The flurry of Chinese translation activity continues.

  Plus, of course, the usual collection of updates, typo fixes, and
  warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (115 commits)
  docs: path-lookup: use bare function() rather than literals
  docs: path-lookup: update symlink description
  docs: path-lookup: update get_link() ->follow_link description
  docs: path-lookup: update WALK_GET, WALK_PUT desc
  docs: path-lookup: no get_link()
  docs: path-lookup: update i_op->put_link and cookie description
  docs: path-lookup: i_op->follow_link replaced with i_op->get_link
  docs: path-lookup: Add macro name to symlink limit description
  docs: path-lookup: remove filename_mountpoint
  docs: path-lookup: update do_last() part
  docs: path-lookup: update path_mountpoint() part
  docs: path-lookup: update path_to_nameidata() part
  docs: path-lookup: update follow_managed() part
  docs: Makefile: Use CONFIG_SHELL not SHELL
  docs: Take a little noise out of the build process
  docs: x86: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: virt: kvm: s390-pv-boot.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: userspace-api: landlock.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: trace: ftrace.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  docs: trace: coresight: coresight.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:`foo` markup
  ...
2021-06-28 16:53:05 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d3122273bd docs: security: landlock.rst: avoid using ReST :doc:foo markup
The :doc:`foo` tag is auto-generated via automarkup.py.
So, use the filename at the sources, instead of :doc:`foo`.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9174021ef2c87f395a4cc0895a4b2f7fd97db626.1623824363.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-17 13:24:39 -06:00
Roberto Sassu
22a558f567 doc: Fix warning in Documentation/security/IMA-templates.rst
This patch fixes the warning:

Documentation/security/IMA-templates.rst:81: WARNING: Inline
substitution_reference start-string without end-string.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-08 16:29:10 -04:00
Roberto Sassu
88016de3ab ima: Define new template evm-sig
With the recent introduction of the evmsig template field, remote verifiers
can obtain the EVM portable signature instead of the IMA signature, to
verify file metadata.

After introducing the new fields to include file metadata in the
measurement list, this patch finally defines the evm-sig template, whose
format is:

d-ng|n-ng|evmsig|xattrnames|xattrlengths|xattrvalues|iuid|igid|imode

xattrnames, xattrlengths and xattrvalues are populated only from defined
EVM protected xattrs, i.e. the ones that EVM considers to verify the
portable signature. xattrnames and xattrlengths are populated only if the
xattr is present.

xattrnames and xattrlengths are not necessary for verifying the EVM
portable signature, but they are included for completeness of information,
if a remote verifier wants to infer more from file metadata.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-03 10:02:37 -04:00
Roberto Sassu
8314b6732a ima: Define new template fields xattrnames, xattrlengths and xattrvalues
This patch defines the new template fields xattrnames, xattrlengths and
xattrvalues, which contain respectively a list of xattr names (strings,
separated by |), lengths (u32, hex) and values (hex). If an xattr is not
present, the name and length are not displayed in the measurement list.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> (Missing prototype def)
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-02 18:56:13 -04:00
Roberto Sassu
f8216f6b95 ima: Define new template field imode
This patch defines the new template field imode, which includes the
inode mode. It can be used by a remote verifier to verify the EVM portable
signature, if it was included with the template fields sig or evmsig.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-01 15:17:30 -04:00
Roberto Sassu
7dcfeacc5a ima: Define new template fields iuid and igid
This patch defines the new template fields iuid and igid, which include
respectively the inode UID and GID. For idmapped mounts, still the original
UID and GID are provided.

These fields can be used to verify the EVM portable signature, if it was
included with the template fields sig or evmsig.

Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-01 15:17:30 -04:00
Roberto Sassu
026d7fc92a ima: Introduce template field evmsig and write to field sig as fallback
With the patch to accept EVM portable signatures when the
appraise_type=imasig requirement is specified in the policy, appraisal can
be successfully done even if the file does not have an IMA signature.

However, remote attestation would not see that a different signature type
was used, as only IMA signatures can be included in the measurement list.
This patch solves the issue by introducing the new template field 'evmsig'
to show EVM portable signatures and by including its value in the existing
field 'sig' if the IMA signature is not found.

Suggested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2021-06-01 12:30:51 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
9e255e2b9a Documentation: drop optional BOMs
A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode
byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for
16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream
is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses.
It may also interfere with (confuse) some software.

Since we don't need it and its use is optional, just delete
the uses of it in Documentation/.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506231907.14359-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-05-10 15:17:34 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
17ae69aba8 Merge tag 'landlock_v34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull Landlock LSM from James Morris:
 "Add Landlock, a new LSM from Mickaël Salaün.

  Briefly, Landlock provides for unprivileged application sandboxing.

  From Mickaël's cover letter:
    "The goal of Landlock is to enable to restrict ambient rights (e.g.
     global filesystem access) for a set of processes. Because Landlock
     is a stackable LSM [1], it makes possible to create safe security
     sandboxes as new security layers in addition to the existing
     system-wide access-controls. This kind of sandbox is expected to
     help mitigate the security impact of bugs or unexpected/malicious
     behaviors in user-space applications. Landlock empowers any
     process, including unprivileged ones, to securely restrict
     themselves.

     Landlock is inspired by seccomp-bpf but instead of filtering
     syscalls and their raw arguments, a Landlock rule can restrict the
     use of kernel objects like file hierarchies, according to the
     kernel semantic. Landlock also takes inspiration from other OS
     sandbox mechanisms: XNU Sandbox, FreeBSD Capsicum or OpenBSD
     Pledge/Unveil.

     In this current form, Landlock misses some access-control features.
     This enables to minimize this patch series and ease review. This
     series still addresses multiple use cases, especially with the
     combined use of seccomp-bpf: applications with built-in sandboxing,
     init systems, security sandbox tools and security-oriented APIs [2]"

  The cover letter and v34 posting is here:

      https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20210422154123.13086-1-mic@digikod.net/

  See also:

      https://landlock.io/

  This code has had extensive design discussion and review over several
  years"

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/50db058a-7dde-441b-a7f9-f6837fe8b69f@schaufler-ca.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f646e1c7-33cf-333f-070c-0a40ad0468cd@digikod.net/ [2]

* tag 'landlock_v34' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
  landlock: Enable user space to infer supported features
  landlock: Add user and kernel documentation
  samples/landlock: Add a sandbox manager example
  selftests/landlock: Add user space tests
  landlock: Add syscall implementations
  arch: Wire up Landlock syscalls
  fs,security: Add sb_delete hook
  landlock: Support filesystem access-control
  LSM: Infrastructure management of the superblock
  landlock: Add ptrace restrictions
  landlock: Set up the security framework and manage credentials
  landlock: Add ruleset and domain management
  landlock: Add object management
2021-05-01 18:50:44 -07:00
Mickaël Salaün
5526b45083 landlock: Add user and kernel documentation
Add a first document describing userspace API: how to define and enforce
a Landlock security policy.  This is explained with a simple example.
The Landlock system calls are described with their expected behavior and
current limitations.

Another document is dedicated to kernel developers, describing guiding
principles and some important kernel structures.

This documentation can be built with the Sphinx framework.

Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@linux.microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Vincent Dagonneau <vincent.dagonneau@ssi.gouv.fr>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210422154123.13086-13-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
2021-04-22 12:22:11 -07:00
Sumit Garg
c429805fdf doc: trusted-encrypted: updates with TEE as a new trust source
Update documentation for Trusted and Encrypted Keys with TEE as a new
trust source. Following is brief description of updates:

- Add a section to demonstrate a list of supported devices along with
  their security properties/guarantees.
- Add a key generation section.
- Updates for usage section including differences specific to a trust
  source.

Co-developed-by: Elaine Palmer <erpalmer@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Elaine Palmer <erpalmer@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Garg <sumit.garg@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
2021-04-14 16:30:30 +03:00
James Bottomley
f221974525 security: keys: trusted: use ASN.1 TPM2 key format for the blobs
Modify the TPM2 key format blob output to export and import in the
ASN.1 form for TPM2 sealed object keys.  For compatibility with prior
trusted keys, the importer will also accept two TPM2B quantities
representing the public and private parts of the key.  However, the
export via keyctl pipe will only output the ASN.1 format.

The benefit of the ASN.1 format is that it's a standard and thus the
exported key can be used by userspace tools (openssl_tpm2_engine,
openconnect and tpm2-tss-engine).  The format includes policy
specifications, thus it gets us out of having to construct policy
handles in userspace and the format includes the parent meaning you
don't have to keep passing it in each time.

This patch only implements basic handling for the ASN.1 format, so
keys with passwords but no policy.

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Tested-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
2021-04-14 16:30:30 +03:00
Linus Torvalds
c03c21ba6f Merge tag 'keys-misc-20210126' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull keyring updates from David Howells:
 "Here's a set of minor keyrings fixes/cleanups that I've collected from
  various people for the upcoming merge window.

  A couple of them might, in theory, be visible to userspace:

   - Make blacklist_vet_description() reject uppercase letters as they
     don't match the all-lowercase hex string generated for a blacklist
     search.

     This may want reconsideration in the future, but, currently, you
     can't add to the blacklist keyring from userspace and the only
     source of blacklist keys generates lowercase descriptions.

   - Fix blacklist_init() to use a new KEY_ALLOC_* flag to indicate that
     it wants KEY_FLAG_KEEP to be set rather than passing KEY_FLAG_KEEP
     into keyring_alloc() as KEY_FLAG_KEEP isn't a valid alloc flag.

     This isn't currently a problem as the blacklist keyring isn't
     currently writable by userspace.

  The rest of the patches are cleanups and I don't think they should
  have any visible effect"

* tag 'keys-misc-20210126' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch()
  certs: Replace K{U,G}IDT_INIT() with GLOBAL_ROOT_{U,G}ID
  certs: Fix blacklist flag type confusion
  PKCS#7: Fix missing include
  certs: Fix blacklisted hexadecimal hash string check
  certs/blacklist: fix kernel doc interface issue
  crypto: public_key: Remove redundant header file from public_key.h
  keys: remove trailing semicolon in macro definition
  crypto: pkcs7: Use match_string() helper to simplify the code
  PKCS#7: drop function from kernel-doc pkcs7_validate_trust_one
  encrypted-keys: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  crypto: asymmetric_keys: fix some comments in pkcs7_parser.h
  KEYS: remove redundant memset
  security: keys: delete repeated words in comments
  KEYS: asymmetric: Fix kerneldoc
  security/keys: use kvfree_sensitive()
  watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue
  keys: Remove outdated __user annotations
  security: keys: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang
2021-02-23 16:09:23 -08:00
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
8fe62e0c0e watch_queue: Drop references to /dev/watch_queue
The merged API doesn't use a watch_queue device, but instead relies on
pipes, so let the documentation reflect that.

Fixes: f7e47677e3 ("watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility")
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>
2021-01-21 16:16:08 +00:00
Joe Perches
05a5f51ca5 Documentation: Replace lkml.org links with lore
Replace the lkml.org links with lore to better use a single source
that's more likely to stay available long-term.

Done by bash script:

cvt_lkml_to_lore ()
{
    tmpfile=$(mktemp ./.cvt_links.XXXXXXX)

    header=$(echo $1 | sed 's@/lkml/@/lkml/headers/@')

    wget -qO - $header > $tmpfile
    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
	link=$(grep -i '^Message-Id:' $tmpfile | head -1 | \
		   sed -r -e 's/^\s*Message-Id:\s*<\s*//' -e  's/\s*>\s*$//' -e 's@^@https://lore.kernel.org/r/@')
	#    echo "testlink: $link"
	if [ -n "$link" ] ; then
	    wget -qO - $link > /dev/null
	    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
		echo $link
	    fi
	fi
    fi

    rm -f $tmpfile
}

git grep -P -o "\bhttps?://(?:www.)?lkml.org/lkml[\/\w]+" $@ |
    while read line ; do
	echo $line
	file=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d':')
	link=$(echo $line | cut -f2- -d':')
	newlink=$(cvt_lkml_to_lore $link)
	if [[ -n "$newlink" ]] ; then
	    sed -i -e "s#\b$link\b#$newlink#" $file
	fi
    done

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1265849/#1462688
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77cdb7f32cfb087955bfc3600b86c40bed5d4104.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-11 12:47:38 -07:00
Denis Efremov
cf92ec602a Documentation: remove current_security() reference
Commit 15322a0d90 ("lsm: remove current_security()") removed
current_security() from the sources.

Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200830142509.5738-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:33:59 -06:00
Coly Li
bb84bc51d2 docs: trusted-encrypted.rst: update parameters for command examples
The parameters in command examples for tpm2_createprimary and
tpm2_evictcontrol are outdated, people (like me) are not able to create
trusted key by these command examples.

This patch updates the parameters of command example tpm2_createprimary
and tpm2_evictcontrol in trusted-encrypted.rst. With Linux kernel v5.8
and tpm2-tools-4.1, people can create a trusted key by following the
examples in this document.

Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821135356.15737-1-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-09 11:30:14 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
b216685bd8 Documentation: security/keys: eliminate duplicated word
Drop the doubled word "in".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org
Cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200707180414.10467-19-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-13 09:45:03 -06:00
Puranjay Mohan
4d010d1447 Security: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Replace :c:func: with ``func()`` as the previous usage is deprecated.
Remove an extra ')' to fix broken cross reference.

Signed-off-by: Puranjay Mohan <puranjay12@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200706184956.6928-1-puranjay12@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-06 14:30:38 -06:00
Kees Cook
7303515ae4 Documentation: Clarify f_cred vs current_cred() use
When making access control choices from a file-based context, f_cred
must be used instead of current_cred() to avoid confused deputy attacks
where an open file may get passed to a more privileged process. Add a
short paragraph to explicitly state the rationale.

Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202007031038.8833A35DE4@keescook
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-05 14:04:45 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
0efaaa8658 docs: crypto: convert asymmetric-keys.txt to ReST
This file is almost compatible with ReST. Just minor changes
were needed:

- Adjust document and titles markups;
- Adjust numbered list markups;
- Add a comments markup for the Contents section;
- Add markups for literal blocks.

Acked-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c2275ea94e0507a01b020ab66dfa824d8b1c2545.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-19 14:03:46 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
6c32978414 Merge tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull notification queue from David Howells:
 "This adds a general notification queue concept and adds an event
  source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking keys and
  changing their attributes.

  Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a
  problem with gnome-online-accounts - as mentioned last time:

     https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/merge_requests/47

  Without this, g-o-a has to constantly poll a keyring-based kerberos
  cache to find out if kinit has changed anything.

  [ There are other notification pending: mount/sb fsinfo notifications
    for libmount that Karel Zak and Ian Kent have been working on, and
    Christian Brauner would like to use them in lxc, but let's see how
    this one works first ]

  LSM hooks are included:

   - A set of hooks are provided that allow an LSM to rule on whether or
     not a watch may be set. Each of these hooks takes a different
     "watched object" parameter, so they're not really shareable. The
     LSM should use current's credentials. [Wanted by SELinux & Smack]

   - A hook is provided to allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a
     particular message may be posted to a particular queue. This is
     given the credentials from the event generator (which may be the
     system) and the watch setter. [Wanted by Smack]

  I've provided SELinux and Smack with implementations of some of these
  hooks.

  WHY
  ===

  Key/keyring notifications are desirable because if you have your
  kerberos tickets in a file/directory, your Gnome desktop will monitor
  that using something like fanotify and tell you if your credentials
  cache changes.

  However, we also have the ability to cache your kerberos tickets in
  the session, user or persistent keyring so that it isn't left around
  on disk across a reboot or logout. Keyrings, however, cannot currently
  be monitored asynchronously, so the desktop has to poll for it - not
  so good on a laptop. This facility will allow the desktop to avoid the
  need to poll.

  DESIGN DECISIONS
  ================

   - The notification queue is built on top of a standard pipe. Messages
     are effectively spliced in. The pipe is opened with a special flag:

        pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE);

     The special flag has the same value as O_EXCL (which doesn't seem
     like it will ever be applicable in this context)[?]. It is given up
     front to make it a lot easier to prohibit splice&co from accessing
     the pipe.

     [?] Should this be done some other way?  I'd rather not use up a new
         O_* flag if I can avoid it - should I add a pipe3() system call
         instead?

     The pipe is then configured::

        ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth);
        ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter);

     Messages are then read out of the pipe using read().

   - It should be possible to allow write() to insert data into the
     notification pipes too, but this is currently disabled as the
     kernel has to be able to insert messages into the pipe *without*
     holding pipe->mutex and the code to make this work needs careful
     auditing.

   - sendfile(), splice() and vmsplice() are disabled on notification
     pipes because of the pipe->mutex issue and also because they
     sometimes want to revert what they just did - but one or more
     notification messages might've been interleaved in the ring.

   - The kernel inserts messages with the wait queue spinlock held. This
     means that pipe_read() and pipe_write() have to take the spinlock
     to update the queue pointers.

   - Records in the buffer are binary, typed and have a length so that
     they can be of varying size.

     This allows multiple heterogeneous sources to share a common
     buffer; there are 16 million types available, of which I've used
     just a few, so there is scope for others to be used. Tags may be
     specified when a watchpoint is created to help distinguish the
     sources.

   - Records are filterable as types have up to 256 subtypes that can be
     individually filtered. Other filtration is also available.

   - Notification pipes don't interfere with each other; each may be
     bound to a different set of watches. Any particular notification
     will be copied to all the queues that are currently watching for it
     - and only those that are watching for it.

   - When recording a notification, the kernel will not sleep, but will
     rather mark a queue as having lost a message if there's
     insufficient space. read() will fabricate a loss notification
     message at an appropriate point later.

   - The notification pipe is created and then watchpoints are attached
     to it, using one of:

        keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fds[1], 0x01);
        watch_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0, fd, 0x02);
        watch_sb(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0, fd, 0x03);

     where in both cases, fd indicates the queue and the number after is
     a tag between 0 and 255.

   - Watches are removed if either the notification pipe is destroyed or
     the watched object is destroyed. In the latter case, a message will
     be generated indicating the enforced watch removal.

  Things I want to avoid:

   - Introducing features that make the core VFS dependent on the
     network stack or networking namespaces (ie. usage of netlink).

   - Dumping all this stuff into dmesg and having a daemon that sits
     there parsing the output and distributing it as this then puts the
     responsibility for security into userspace and makes handling
     namespaces tricky. Further, dmesg might not exist or might be
     inaccessible inside a container.

   - Letting users see events they shouldn't be able to see.

  TESTING AND MANPAGES
  ====================

   - The keyutils tree has a pipe-watch branch that has keyctl commands
     for making use of notifications. Proposed manual pages can also be
     found on this branch, though a couple of them really need to go to
     the main manpages repository instead.

     If the kernel supports the watching of keys, then running "make
     test" on that branch will cause the testing infrastructure to spawn
     a monitoring process on the side that monitors a notifications pipe
     for all the key/keyring changes induced by the tests and they'll
     all be checked off to make sure they happened.

        https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/log/?h=pipe-watch

   - A test program is provided (samples/watch_queue/watch_test) that
     can be used to monitor for keyrings, mount and superblock events.
     Information on the notifications is simply logged to stdout"

* tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
  smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks
  selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook
  keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask
  pipe: Add notification lossage handling
  pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications
  Add sample notification program
  watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility
  security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch
  pipe: Add general notification queue support
  pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE
  security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion
  uapi: General notification queue definitions
2020-06-13 09:56:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6d62c5b211 Merge tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving docs fixes, along with a patch changing a
  lot of HTTP links to HTTPS that had to be yanked and redone before the
  first pull"

* tag 'docs-5.8-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation
  Documentation: devres: add missing entry for devm_platform_get_and_ioremap_resource()
  Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation
  docs: it_IT: address invalid reference warnings
  doc: zh_CN: use doc reference to resolve undefined label warning
  docs: Update the location of the LF NDA program
  docs: dev-tools: coccinelle: underlines
2020-06-10 14:12:15 -07:00
Alexander A. Klimov
93431e0607 Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones: documentation
Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.

Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
  For each line:
    If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
      For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
        If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
        return 200 OK and serve the same content:
          Replace HTTP with HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526060544.25127-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-06-08 09:30:19 -06:00