selinux: change handling of invalid classes (Was: Re: 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 selinux whine)

On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 01:24 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Getting a few of these with FC5:
>
> SELinux: context_struct_compute_av:  unrecognized class 69
> SELinux: context_struct_compute_av:  unrecognized class 69
>
> one came out when I logged in.
>
> No other symptoms, yet.

Change handling of invalid classes by SELinux, reporting class values
unknown to the kernel as errors (w/ ratelimit applied) and handling
class values unknown to policy as normal denials.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 543fd0f..04c0b70 100644 (file)
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -407,9 +407,19 @@ static int context_struct_compute_av(struct context *scontext,
        return 0;
 
 inval_class:
-       printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux: %s:  unrecognized class %d\n", __func__,
-               tclass);
-       return -EINVAL;
+       if (!tclass || tclass > kdefs->cts_len ||
+           !kdefs->class_to_string[tclass]) {
+               if (printk_ratelimit())
+                       printk(KERN_ERR "SELinux: %s:  unrecognized class %d\n",
+                              __func__, tclass);
+               return -EINVAL;
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Known to the kernel, but not to the policy.
+        * Handle as a denial (allowed is 0).
+        */
+       return 0;
 }
 
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