CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.
task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.
task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running. These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.
__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.
current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.
prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).
override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds. These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.
In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm(). This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 121d655..3443123 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1145,7 +1145,10 @@
struct list_head cpu_timers[3];
/* process credentials */
- const struct cred *cred; /* actual/objective task credentials (COW) */
+ const struct cred *real_cred; /* objective and real subjective task
+ * credentials (COW) */
+ const struct cred *cred; /* effective (overridable) subjective task
+ * credentials (COW) */
struct mutex cred_exec_mutex; /* execve vs ptrace cred calculation mutex */
char comm[TASK_COMM_LEN]; /* executable name excluding path