143 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
John Johansen a0b7091c4d apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference
There is a race condition that leads to a use-after-free situation:
because the rawdata inodes are not refcounted, an attacker can start
open()ing one of the rawdata files, and at the same time remove the
last reference to this rawdata (by removing the corresponding profile,
for example), which frees its struct aa_loaddata; as a result, when
seq_rawdata_open() is reached, i_private is a dangling pointer and
freed memory is accessed.

The rawdata inodes weren't refcounted to avoid a circular refcount and
were supposed to be held by the profile rawdata reference.  However
during profile removal there is a window where the vfs and profile
destruction race, resulting in the use after free.

Fix this by moving to a double refcount scheme. Where the profile
refcount on rawdata is used to break the circular dependency. Allowing
for freeing of the rawdata once all inode references to the rawdata
are put.

Fixes: 5d5182cae4 ("apparmor: move to per loaddata files, instead of replicating in profiles")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Bélair <maxime.belair@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-03-09 16:05:44 -07:00
John Johansen 6601e13e82 apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management
An unprivileged local user can load, replace, and remove profiles by
opening the apparmorfs interfaces, via a confused deputy attack, by
passing the opened fd to a privileged process, and getting the
privileged process to write to the interface.

This does require a privileged target that can be manipulated to do
the write for the unprivileged process, but once such access is
achieved full policy management is possible and all the possible
implications that implies: removing confinement, DoS of system or
target applications by denying all execution, by-passing the
unprivileged user namespace restriction, to exploiting kernel bugs for
a local privilege escalation.

The policy management interface can not have its permissions simply
changed from 0666 to 0600 because non-root processes need to be able
to load policy to different policy namespaces.

Instead ensure the task writing the interface has privileges that
are a subset of the task that opened the interface. This is already
done via policy for confined processes, but unconfined can delegate
access to the opened fd, by-passing the usual policy check.

Fixes: b7fd2c0340 ("apparmor: add per policy ns .load, .replace, .remove interface files")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-03-09 16:05:43 -07:00
John Johansen 5df0c44e8f apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles()
if ns_name is NULL after
1071         error = aa_unpack(udata, &lh, &ns_name);

and if ent->ns_name contains an ns_name in
1089                 } else if (ent->ns_name) {

then ns_name is assigned the ent->ns_name
1095                         ns_name = ent->ns_name;

however ent->ns_name is freed at
1262                 aa_load_ent_free(ent);

and then again when freeing ns_name at
1270         kfree(ns_name);

Fix this by NULLing out ent->ns_name after it is transferred to ns_name

Fixes: 145a0ef21c ("apparmor: fix blob compression when ns is forced on a policy load
")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-03-09 16:05:43 -07:00
Massimiliano PellizzerandJohn Johansen ab09264660 apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach
The profile removal code uses recursion when removing nested profiles,
which can lead to kernel stack exhaustion and system crashes.

Reproducer:
  $ pf='a'; for ((i=0; i<1024; i++)); do
      echo -e "profile $pf { \n }" | apparmor_parser -K -a;
      pf="$pf//x";
  done
  $ echo -n a > /sys/kernel/security/apparmor/.remove

Replace the recursive __aa_profile_list_release() approach with an
iterative approach in __remove_profile(). The function repeatedly
finds and removes leaf profiles until the entire subtree is removed,
maintaining the same removal semantic without recursion.

Fixes: c88d4c7b04 ("AppArmor: core policy routines")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-03-09 16:05:42 -07:00
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
John Johansen e16eee7895 apparmor: guard against free routines being called with a NULL
aa_free_data() and free_attachment() don't guard against having
a NULL parameter passed to them. Fix this.

Reviewed-by: Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-01-29 01:27:54 -08:00
John Johansen 3d28e2397a apparmor: add support loading per permission tagging
Add support for the per permission tag index for a given permission
set. This will be used by both meta-data tagging, to allow annotating
accept states with context and debug information. As well as by rule
tainting and triggers to specify the taint or trigger to be applied.

Since these are low frequency ancillary data items they are stored
in a tighter packed format to that allows for sharing and reuse of the
strings between permissions and accept states. Reducing the amount of
kernel memory use at the cost of having to go through a couple if
index based indirections.

The tags are just strings that has no meaning with out context. When
used as meta-data for auditing and debugging its entirely information
for userspace, but triggers, and tainting can be used to affect the
domain. However they all exist in the same packed data set and can
be shared between different uses.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-01-29 01:27:47 -08:00
John Johansen c140dcd124 apparmor: make str table more generic and be able to have multiple entries
The strtable is currently limited to a single entry string on unpack
even though domain has the concept of multiple entries within it. Make
this a reality as it will be used for tags and more advanced domain
transitions.

Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-01-22 04:56:39 -08:00
Thorsten BlumandJohn Johansen 7db8c3c738 apparmor: replace sprintf with snprintf in aa_new_learning_profile
Replace unbounded sprintf() calls with snprintf() to prevent potential
buffer overflows in aa_new_learning_profile(). While the current code
works correctly, snprintf() is safer and follows secure coding best
practices.  No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2026-01-16 10:46:54 -08:00
John Johansen 5f49c2d1f4 apparmor: fix: oops when trying to free null ruleset
profile allocation is wrongly setting the number of entries on the
rules vector before any ruleset is assigned. If profile allocation
fails between ruleset allocation and assigning the first ruleset,
free_ruleset() will be called with a null pointer resulting in an
oops.

[  107.350226] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:545!
[  107.350912] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[  107.351447] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 27 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Not tainted 6.14.6-hwe-rlee287-dev+ #5
[  107.353279] Hardware name:[   107.350218] -QE-----------[ cutMU here ]--------- Ub---
[  107.3502untu26] kernel BUG a 24t mm/slub.c:545.!04 P
[  107.350912]C ( Oops: invalid oi4pcode: 0000 [#1]40 PREEMPT SMP NOPFXTI
 + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[  107.356054] RIP: 0010:__slab_free+0x152/0x340
[  107.356444] Code: 00 4c 89 ff e8 0f ac df 00 48 8b 14 24 48 8b 4c 24 20 48 89 44 24 08 48 8b 03 48 c1 e8 09 83 e0 01 88 44 24 13 e9 71 ff ff ff <0f> 0b 41 f7 44 24 08 87 04 00 00 75 b2 eb a8 41 f7 44 24 08 87 04
[  107.357856] RSP: 0018:ffffad4a800fbbb0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  107.358937] RAX: ffff97ebc2a88e70 RBX: ffffd759400aa200 RCX: 0000000000800074
[  107.359976] RDX: ffff97ebc2a88e60 RSI: ffffd759400aa200 RDI: ffffad4a800fbc20
[  107.360600] RBP: ffffad4a800fbc50 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffff86f02cf2
[  107.361254] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff97ecc0049400
[  107.361934] R13: ffff97ebc2a88e60 R14: ffff97ecc0049400 R15: 0000000000000000
[  107.362597] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff97ecfb200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  107.363332] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  107.363784] CR2: 000061c9545ac000 CR3: 0000000047aa6000 CR4: 0000000000750ef0
[  107.364331] PKRU: 55555554
[  107.364545] Call Trace:
[  107.364761]  <TASK>
[  107.364931]  ? local_clock+0x15/0x30
[  107.365219]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  107.365593]  ? kfree_sensitive+0x32/0x70
[  107.365900]  kfree+0x29d/0x3a0
[  107.366144]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  107.366510]  ? local_clock_noinstr+0xe/0xd0
[  107.366841]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[  107.367209]  kfree_sensitive+0x32/0x70
[  107.367502]  aa_free_profile.part.0+0xa2/0x400
[  107.367850]  ? rcu_do_batch+0x1e6/0x5e0
[  107.368148]  aa_free_profile+0x23/0x60
[  107.368438]  label_free_switch+0x4c/0x80
[  107.368751]  label_free_rcu+0x1c/0x50
[  107.369038]  rcu_do_batch+0x1e8/0x5e0
[  107.369324]  ? rcu_do_batch+0x157/0x5e0
[  107.369626]  rcu_core+0x1b0/0x2f0
[  107.369888]  rcu_core_si+0xe/0x20
[  107.370156]  handle_softirqs+0x9b/0x3d0
[  107.370460]  ? smpboot_thread_fn+0x26/0x210
[  107.370790]  run_ksoftirqd+0x3a/0x70
[  107.371070]  smpboot_thread_fn+0xf9/0x210
[  107.371383]  ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
[  107.371746]  kthread+0x10d/0x280
[  107.372010]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  107.372310]  ret_from_fork+0x44/0x70
[  107.372655]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[  107.372974]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[  107.373316]  </TASK>
[  107.373505] Modules linked in: af_packet_diag mptcp_diag tcp_diag udp_diag raw_diag inet_diag snd_seq_dummy snd_hrtimer snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_timer snd soundcore qrtr binfmt_misc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common kvm_amd ccp kvm irqbypass polyval_clmulni polyval_generic ghash_clmulni_intel sha256_ssse3 sha1_ssse3 aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd i2c_piix4 i2c_smbus input_leds joydev sch_fq_codel msr parport_pc ppdev lp parport efi_pstore nfnetlink vsock_loopback vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vsock vmw_vmci dmi_sysfs qemu_fw_cfg ip_tables x_tables autofs4 hid_generic usbhid hid psmouse serio_raw floppy bochs pata_acpi
[  107.379086] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Don't set the count until a ruleset is actually allocated and
guard against free_ruleset() being called with a null pointer.

Reported-by: Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>
Fixes: 217af7e2f4 ("apparmor: refactor profile rules and attachments")
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-08-04 01:14:56 -07:00
John Johansen 9afdc6abb0 apparmor: transition from a list of rules to a vector of rules
The set of rules on a profile is not dynamically extended, instead
if a new ruleset is needed a new version of the profile is created.
This allows us to use a vector of rules instead of a list, slightly
reducing memory usage and simplifying the code.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-07-20 02:31:06 -07:00
Mateusz GuzikandJohn Johansen 87cc7b0011 apparmor: make __begin_current_label_crit_section() indicate whether put is needed
Same as aa_get_newest_cred_label_condref().

This avoids a bunch of work overall and allows the compiler to note when no
clean up is necessary, allowing for tail calls.

This in particular happens in apparmor_file_permission(), which manages to
tail call aa_file_perm() 105 bytes in (vs a regular call 112 bytes in
followed by branches to figure out if clean up is needed).

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-07-15 22:39:43 -07:00
Tanya AgarwalandJohn Johansen aabbe6f908 apparmor: fix typos and spelling errors
Fix typos and spelling errors in apparmor module comments that were
identified using the codespell tool.
No functional changes - documentation only.

Signed-off-by: Tanya Agarwal <tanyaagarwal25699@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-02-10 11:17:49 -08:00
John Johansen 84c455decf apparmor: add support for profiles to define the kill signal
Previously apparmor has only sent SIGKILL but there are cases where
it can be useful to send a different signal. Allow the profile
to optionally specify a different value.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-01-18 06:47:12 -08:00
John Johansen de4754c801 apparmor: carry mediation check on label
In order to speed up the mediated check, precompute and store the
result as a bit per class type. This will not only allow us to
speed up the mediation check but is also a step to removing the
unconfined special cases as the unconfined check can be replaced
with the generic label_mediates() check.

Note: label check does not currently work for capabilities and resources
      which need to have their mediation updated first.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-01-18 06:47:12 -08:00
John Johansen 71e6cff3e0 apparmor: Improve debug print infrastructure
Make it so apparmor debug output can be controlled by class flags
as well as the debug flag on labels. This provides much finer
control at what is being output so apparmor doesn't flood the
logs with information that is not needed, making it hard to find
what is important.

Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2025-01-18 06:47:11 -08:00
Dr. David Alan GilbertandJohn Johansen 75535669c9 apparmor: Remove deadcode
aa_label_audit, aa_label_find, aa_label_seq_print and aa_update_label_name
were added by commit
f1bd904175 ("apparmor: add the base fns() for domain labels")
but never used.

aa_profile_label_perm was added by commit
637f688dc3 ("apparmor: switch from profiles to using labels on contexts")
but never used.

aa_secid_update was added by commit
c092921219 ("apparmor: add support for mapping secids and using secctxes")
but never used.

aa_split_fqname has been unused since commit
3664268f19 ("apparmor: add namespace lookup fns()")

aa_lookup_profile has been unused since commit
93c98a484c ("apparmor: move exec domain mediation to using labels")

aa_audit_perms_cb was only used by aa_profile_label_perm (see above).

All of these commits are from around 2017.

Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2024-11-26 19:21:05 -08:00
Thorsten BlumandJohn Johansen 648e45d724 apparmor: Remove unnecessary NULL check before kvfree()
Since kvfree() already checks if its argument is NULL, an additional
check before calling kvfree() is unnecessary and can be removed.

Remove it and the following Coccinelle/coccicheck warning reported by
ifnullfree.cocci:

  WARNING: NULL check before some freeing functions is not needed

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2024-11-26 19:21:05 -08:00
Ryan LeeandJohn Johansen 17d0d04f3c apparmor: allocate xmatch for nullpdb inside aa_alloc_null
attach->xmatch was not set when allocating a null profile, which is used in
complain mode to allocate a learning profile. This was causing downstream
failures in find_attach, which expected a valid xmatch but did not find
one under a certain sequence of profile transitions in complain mode.

This patch ensures the xmatch is set up properly for null profiles.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Lee <ryan.lee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2024-11-26 19:21:04 -08:00
Fedor PchelkinandJohn Johansen 2bc73505a5 apparmor: use kvfree_sensitive to free data->data
Inside unpack_profile() data->data is allocated using kvmemdup() so it
should be freed with the corresponding kvfree_sensitive().

Also add missing data->data release for rhashtable insertion failure path
in unpack_profile().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Fixes: e025be0f26 ("apparmor: support querying extended trusted helper extra data")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2024-05-10 08:32:35 -07:00
Fedor PchelkinandJohn Johansen 1af5aa82c9 apparmor: free the allocated pdb objects
policy_db objects are allocated with kzalloc() inside aa_alloc_pdb() and
are not cleared in the corresponding aa_free_pdb() function causing leak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88801f0a1400 (size 192):
  comm "apparmor_parser", pid 1247, jiffies 4295122827 (age 2306.399s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81ddc612>] __kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1e2/0x2d0
    [<ffffffff81c47c55>] kmalloc_trace+0x25/0xc0
    [<ffffffff83eb9a12>] aa_alloc_pdb+0x82/0x140
    [<ffffffff83ec4077>] unpack_pdb+0xc7/0x2700
    [<ffffffff83ec6b10>] unpack_profile+0x450/0x4960
    [<ffffffff83ecc129>] aa_unpack+0x309/0x15e0
    [<ffffffff83ebdb23>] aa_replace_profiles+0x213/0x33c0
    [<ffffffff83e8d341>] policy_update+0x261/0x370
    [<ffffffff83e8d66e>] profile_replace+0x20e/0x2a0
    [<ffffffff81eadfaf>] vfs_write+0x2af/0xe00
    [<ffffffff81eaf4c6>] ksys_write+0x126/0x250
    [<ffffffff890fa0b6>] do_syscall_64+0x46/0xf0
    [<ffffffff892000ea>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76

Free the pdbs inside aa_free_pdb(). While at it, rename the variable
representing an aa_policydb object to make the function more unified with
aa_pdb_free_kref() and aa_alloc_pdb().

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org).

Fixes: 98b824ff89 ("apparmor: refcount the pdb")
Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2024-01-03 11:48:02 -08:00
Yang LiandJohn Johansen 6cede10161 apparmor: Fix some kernel-doc comments
Fix some kernel-doc comments to silence the warnings:
security/apparmor/policy.c:117: warning: Function parameter or member 'kref' not described in 'aa_pdb_free_kref'
security/apparmor/policy.c:117: warning: Excess function parameter 'kr' description in 'aa_pdb_free_kref'
security/apparmor/policy.c:882: warning: Function parameter or member 'subj_cred' not described in 'aa_may_manage_policy'

Reported-by: Abaci Robot <abaci@linux.alibaba.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.openanolis.cn/show_bug.cgi?id=7037
Signed-off-by: Yang Li <yang.lee@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-23 00:26:27 -07:00
John Johansen 2d9da9b188 apparmor: allow restricting unprivileged change_profile
unprivileged unconfined can use change_profile to alter the confinement
set by the mac admin.

Allow restricting unprivileged unconfined by still allowing change_profile
but stacking the change against unconfined. This allows unconfined to
still apply system policy but allows the task to enter the new confinement.

If unprivileged unconfined is required a sysctl is provided to switch
to the previous behavior.

Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-18 15:48:44 -07:00
John Johansen 98b824ff89 apparmor: refcount the pdb
With the move to permission tables the dfa is no longer a stand
alone entity when used, needing a minimum of a permission table.
However it still could be shared among different pdbs each using
a different permission table.

Instead of duping the permission table when sharing a pdb, add a
refcount to the pdb so it can be easily shared.

Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-18 15:30:47 -07:00
John Johansen 90c436a64a apparmor: pass cred through to audit info.
The cred is needed to properly audit some messages, and will be needed
in the future for uid conditional mediation. So pass it through to
where the apparmor_audit_data struct gets defined.

Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
2023-10-18 15:30:38 -07:00