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FAILED: patch "[PATCH] binder: use cred instead of task for getsecid" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

PATCH [email protected] 1 participant 1 message Nov 9, 2021

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The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

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greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 4d5b5539742d2554591751b4248b0204d20dcc9d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Todd Kjos <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:56:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] binder: use cred instead of task for getsecid

Use the 'struct cred' saved at binder_open() to lookup the security ID via security_cred_getsecid(). This ensures that the security context that opened binder is the one used to generate the secctx.

Fixes ec74136ded79 ("binder: create node flag to request sender's security context")
drivers/android/binder.c +1 -10
index 1571e01cfa52..49b08c04fa09 100644
@@ -2713,16 +2713,7 @@ static void binder_transaction(struct binder_proc *proc,
 		u32 secid;
 		size_t added_size;
 
-		/*
-		 * Arguably this should be the task's subjective LSM secid but
-		 * we can't reliably access the subjective creds of a task
-		 * other than our own so we must use the objective creds, which
-		 * are safe to access.  The downside is that if a task is
-		 * temporarily overriding it's creds it will not be reflected
-		 * here; however, it isn't clear that binder would handle that
-		 * case well anyway.
-		 */
-		security_task_getsecid_obj(proc->tsk, &secid);
+		security_cred_getsecid(proc->cred, &secid);
 		ret = security_secid_to_secctx(secid, &secctx, &secctx_sz);
 		if (ret) {
 			return_error = BR_FAILED_REPLY;
include/linux/security.h +5 -0
index 9be72166e859..cc6d39358336 100644
@@ -1041,6 +1041,11 @@ static inline void security_transfer_creds(struct cred *new,
 {
 }
 
+static inline void security_cred_getsecid(const struct cred *c, u32 *secid)
+{
+	*secid = 0;
+}
+
 static inline int security_kernel_act_as(struct cred *cred, u32 secid)
 {
 	return 0;