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authorStephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>2025-05-21 10:41:23 -0400
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2025-06-19 17:23:04 -0400
commit1106896146d8711fdc899e6fc792e1d01f9b9f15 (patch)
tree15902e6e531166619f1184b9a30da1cdbd1fd0c8
parentdocumentation: add links to SELinux resources (diff)
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selinux: introduce neveraudit types
Introduce neveraudit types i.e. types that should never trigger audit messages. This allows the AVC to skip all audit-related processing for such types. Note that neveraudit differs from dontaudit not only wrt being applied for all checks with a given source type but also in that it disables all auditing, not just permission denials. When a type is both a permissive type and a neveraudit type, the security server can short-circuit the security_compute_av() logic, allowing all permissions and not auditing any permissions. This change just introduces the basic support but does not yet further optimize the AVC or hook function logic when a type is both a permissive type and a dontaudit type. Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/include/avc.h4
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/include/security.h4
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/policydb.c19
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/policydb.h2
-rw-r--r--security/selinux/ss/services.c20
5 files changed, 48 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/selinux/include/avc.h b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
index 281f40103663..01b5167fee1a 100644
--- a/security/selinux/include/avc.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ static inline u32 avc_audit_required(u32 requested, struct av_decision *avd,
int result, u32 auditdeny, u32 *deniedp)
{
u32 denied, audited;
+
+ if (avd->flags & AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT)
+ return 0;
+
denied = requested & ~avd->allowed;
if (unlikely(denied)) {
audited = denied & avd->auditdeny;
diff --git a/security/selinux/include/security.h b/security/selinux/include/security.h
index 278c144c22d6..8201e6a3ac0f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/include/security.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/security.h
@@ -47,10 +47,11 @@
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_GLBLUB 32
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_COMP_FTRANS 33 /* compressed filename transitions */
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_COND_XPERMS 34 /* extended permissions in conditional policies */
+#define POLICYDB_VERSION_NEVERAUDIT 35 /* neveraudit types */
/* Range of policy versions we understand*/
#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MIN POLICYDB_VERSION_BASE
-#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX POLICYDB_VERSION_COND_XPERMS
+#define POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX POLICYDB_VERSION_NEVERAUDIT
/* Mask for just the mount related flags */
#define SE_MNTMASK 0x0f
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ struct extended_perms {
/* definitions of av_decision.flags */
#define AVD_FLAGS_PERMISSIVE 0x0001
+#define AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT 0x0002
void security_compute_av(u32 ssid, u32 tsid, u16 tclass,
struct av_decision *avd,
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
index 9ea971943713..91df3db6a88c 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
@@ -160,6 +160,11 @@ static const struct policydb_compat_info policydb_compat[] = {
.sym_num = SYM_NUM,
.ocon_num = OCON_NUM,
},
+ {
+ .version = POLICYDB_VERSION_NEVERAUDIT,
+ .sym_num = SYM_NUM,
+ .ocon_num = OCON_NUM,
+ },
};
static const struct policydb_compat_info *
@@ -531,6 +536,7 @@ static void policydb_init(struct policydb *p)
ebitmap_init(&p->filename_trans_ttypes);
ebitmap_init(&p->policycaps);
ebitmap_init(&p->permissive_map);
+ ebitmap_init(&p->neveraudit_map);
}
/*
@@ -852,6 +858,7 @@ void policydb_destroy(struct policydb *p)
ebitmap_destroy(&p->filename_trans_ttypes);
ebitmap_destroy(&p->policycaps);
ebitmap_destroy(&p->permissive_map);
+ ebitmap_destroy(&p->neveraudit_map);
}
/*
@@ -2538,6 +2545,12 @@ int policydb_read(struct policydb *p, struct policy_file *fp)
goto bad;
}
+ if (p->policyvers >= POLICYDB_VERSION_NEVERAUDIT) {
+ rc = ebitmap_read(&p->neveraudit_map, fp);
+ if (rc)
+ goto bad;
+ }
+
rc = -EINVAL;
info = policydb_lookup_compat(p->policyvers);
if (!info) {
@@ -3723,6 +3736,12 @@ int policydb_write(struct policydb *p, struct policy_file *fp)
return rc;
}
+ if (p->policyvers >= POLICYDB_VERSION_NEVERAUDIT) {
+ rc = ebitmap_write(&p->neveraudit_map, fp);
+ if (rc)
+ return rc;
+ }
+
num_syms = info->sym_num;
for (i = 0; i < num_syms; i++) {
struct policy_data pd;
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.h b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.h
index 25650224b6e7..89a180b1742f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.h
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.h
@@ -300,6 +300,8 @@ struct policydb {
struct ebitmap permissive_map;
+ struct ebitmap neveraudit_map;
+
/* length of this policy when it was loaded */
size_t len;
diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/services.c b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
index 7becf3808818..9b3b64ea6790 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -1153,6 +1153,14 @@ void security_compute_av(u32 ssid,
if (ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb->permissive_map, scontext->type))
avd->flags |= AVD_FLAGS_PERMISSIVE;
+ /* neveraudit domain? */
+ if (ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb->neveraudit_map, scontext->type))
+ avd->flags |= AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT;
+
+ /* both permissive and neveraudit => allow */
+ if (avd->flags == (AVD_FLAGS_PERMISSIVE|AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT))
+ goto allow;
+
tcontext = sidtab_search(sidtab, tsid);
if (!tcontext) {
pr_err("SELinux: %s: unrecognized SID %d\n",
@@ -1172,6 +1180,8 @@ void security_compute_av(u32 ssid,
policydb->allow_unknown);
out:
rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (avd->flags & AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT)
+ avd->auditallow = avd->auditdeny = 0;
return;
allow:
avd->allowed = 0xffffffff;
@@ -1208,6 +1218,14 @@ void security_compute_av_user(u32 ssid,
if (ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb->permissive_map, scontext->type))
avd->flags |= AVD_FLAGS_PERMISSIVE;
+ /* neveraudit domain? */
+ if (ebitmap_get_bit(&policydb->neveraudit_map, scontext->type))
+ avd->flags |= AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT;
+
+ /* both permissive and neveraudit => allow */
+ if (avd->flags == (AVD_FLAGS_PERMISSIVE|AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT))
+ goto allow;
+
tcontext = sidtab_search(sidtab, tsid);
if (!tcontext) {
pr_err("SELinux: %s: unrecognized SID %d\n",
@@ -1225,6 +1243,8 @@ void security_compute_av_user(u32 ssid,
NULL);
out:
rcu_read_unlock();
+ if (avd->flags & AVD_FLAGS_NEVERAUDIT)
+ avd->auditallow = avd->auditdeny = 0;
return;
allow:
avd->allowed = 0xffffffff;