linux/security
Eric Paris b138004ea0 SELinux: fix selinuxfs policy file on big endian systems
The /sys/fs/selinux/policy file is not valid on big endian systems like
ppc64 or s390.  Let's see why:

static int hashtab_cnt(void *key, void *data, void *ptr)
{
	int *cnt = ptr;
	*cnt = *cnt + 1;

	return 0;
}

static int range_write(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
{
	size_t nel;
[...]
	/* count the number of entries in the hashtab */
	nel = 0;
	rc = hashtab_map(p->range_tr, hashtab_cnt, &nel);
	if (rc)
		return rc;
	buf[0] = cpu_to_le32(nel);
	rc = put_entry(buf, sizeof(u32), 1, fp);

So size_t is 64 bits.  But then we pass a pointer to it as we do to
hashtab_cnt.  hashtab_cnt thinks it is a 32 bit int and only deals with
the first 4 bytes.  On x86_64 which is little endian, those first 4
bytes and the least significant, so this works out fine.  On ppc64/s390
those first 4 bytes of memory are the high order bits.  So at the end of
the call to hashtab_map nel has a HUGE number.  But the least
significant 32 bits are all 0's.

We then pass that 64 bit number to cpu_to_le32() which happily truncates
it to a 32 bit number and does endian swapping.  But the low 32 bits are
all 0's.  So no matter how many entries are in the hashtab, big endian
systems always say there are 0 entries because I screwed up the
counting.

The fix is easy.  Use a 32 bit int, as the hashtab_cnt expects, for nel.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
2013-07-25 13:02:44 -04:00
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apparmor new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
integrity ima: eliminate passing d_name.name to process_measurement() 2013-04-17 17:20:57 -07:00
keys aio: don't include aio.h in sched.h 2013-05-07 20:16:25 -07:00
selinux SELinux: fix selinuxfs policy file on big endian systems 2013-07-25 13:02:44 -04:00
smack Smack: include magic.h in smackfs.c 2013-04-03 13:13:51 +11:00
tomoyo Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-05-01 17:51:54 -07:00
yama yama: Better permission check for ptraceme 2013-03-26 13:17:58 -07:00
capability.c lsm: split the xfrm_state_alloc_security() hook implementation 2013-07-25 13:01:25 -04:00
commoncap.c kill f_vfsmnt 2013-02-26 02:46:10 -05:00
device_cgroup.c devcg: remove parent_cgroup. 2013-04-18 11:34:35 -07:00
inode.c securityfs: fix object creation races 2012-01-10 10:20:35 -05:00
Kconfig KEYS: Move the key config into security/keys/Kconfig 2012-05-11 10:56:56 +01:00
lsm_audit.c LSM: BUILD_BUG_ON if the common_audit_data union ever grows 2012-04-09 12:23:03 -04:00
Makefile security: Yama LSM 2012-02-10 09:18:52 +11:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c lsm: split the xfrm_state_alloc_security() hook implementation 2013-07-25 13:01:25 -04:00