2020-10-29 18:37:36

by Aleksandr Nogikh

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Subject: [PATCH v3 0/2] security: add fault injection to LSM hooks

From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>

Fault injection capabilities[Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst]
facilitate testing of the stability of the Linux kernel by providing
means to force a number of kernel interfaces to return error
codes. This patch series proposes adding such fault injection
capability into LSM hooks.

The intent is to make it possible to test whether the existing kernel
code properly handles negative return values of LSM hooks. Syzbot
[https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md] will
automatically do that with the aid of instrumentation tools once these
changes are merged.

Local fuzzing of a Linux kernel with this patch has almost instantly
led to two crashes. I'm not sure whether they correspond to actual
issues as this LSM fault injection implementation (and the concept
itself) can be wrong. Here they are:

1. "general protection fault in selinux_inode_free_security". This is
caused by executing security_inode_free() when a fault was injected to
inode_alloc_security() and therefore selinux_inode_alloc_security()
was not executed. In this case, the subsequent inode_free_security()
call executes list_del_init() on an uninitialized list. Theoretically,
this may happen if some other LSM precedes selinux in the hooks list
and its inode_alloc_security hook fails.

A fault was injected to this call_int_hook():
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.9/source/security/security.c#L975

Below you can find a call trace for the subsequent crash.
__list_del_entry include/linux/list.h:132 [inline]
list_del_init include/linux/list.h:204 [inline]
inode_free_security security/selinux/hooks.c:337 [inline]
selinux_inode_free_security+0xf0/0x290 security/selinux/hooks.c:2839
security_inode_free+0x46/0xc0 security/security.c:1042
security_inode_alloc+0x161/0x1a0 security/security.c:1027
inode_init_always+0x5a7/0xd10 fs/inode.c:171
alloc_inode+0x82/0x230 fs/inode.c:239
new_inode_pseudo+0x14/0xe0 fs/inode.c:928
sock_alloc+0x3c/0x260 net/socket.c:573
__sock_create+0xb9/0x780 net/socket.c:1391
sock_create net/socket.c:1478 [inline]
__sys_socket+0xef/0x200 net/socket.c:1520
__do_sys_socket net/socket.c:1529 [inline]
__se_sys_socket net/socket.c:1527 [inline]
__x64_sys_socket+0x6f/0xb0 net/socket.c:1527
do_syscall_64+0x2d/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

2. BUG_ON inside security_skb_classify_flow(). Why is it needed there?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.9/source/security/security.c#L2426

---
v3:
* Submitting this series without an "RFC" tag.
* Updated the cover letter.

v2:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
* Renamed should_fail_lsm_hook() to lsm_hooks_inject_fail().
* Extended the documentation.

v1:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]

Aleksandr Nogikh (2):
security: add fault injection capability
docs: add fail_lsm_hooks info to fault-injection.rst

.../fault-injection/fault-injection.rst | 6 +++
lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++
security/security.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)


base-commit: 3f267ec60b922eff2a5c90d532357a39f155b730
--
2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog


2020-10-29 18:37:46

by Aleksandr Nogikh

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Subject: [PATCH v3 1/2] security: add fault injection capability

From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>

Add a fault injection capability to call_int_hook macro. This will
facilitate testing of fault tolerance of the code that invokes
security hooks as well as the fault tolerance of the LSM
implementations themselves.

Add a KConfig option (CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS) that controls whether the
capability is enabled. In order to enable configuration from the user
space, add the standard debugfs entries for fault injection (if
CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS is enabled).

Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
---
v2:
* Renamed should_fail_lsm_hook() to lsm_hooks_inject_fail().
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++++
security/security.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 537cf3c2937d..80d289591e29 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1803,6 +1803,12 @@ config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
help
Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.

+config FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
+ bool "Fault-injection capability for LSM hooks"
+ depends on FAULT_INJECTION
+ help
+ Provide fault-injection capability for LSM hooks.
+
config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
index 69ff6e2e2cd4..1105ad0f6891 100644
--- a/security/security.c
+++ b/security/security.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/backing-dev.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/msg.h>
+#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
#include <net/flow.h>

#define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR 2
@@ -669,6 +670,51 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
panic("%s: Early task alloc failed.\n", __func__);
}

+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
+
+static struct {
+ struct fault_attr attr;
+ int retval;
+} fail_lsm_hooks = {
+ .attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
+ .retval = -EACCES
+};
+
+static int __init setup_fail_lsm_hooks(char *str)
+{
+ return setup_fault_attr(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, str);
+}
+__setup("fail_lsm_hooks=", setup_fail_lsm_hooks);
+
+static int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void)
+{
+ return should_fail(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, 1) ? fail_lsm_hooks.retval : 0;
+}
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
+
+static int __init fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs(void)
+{
+ umode_t mode = S_IFREG | 0600;
+ struct dentry *dir;
+
+ dir = fault_create_debugfs_attr("fail_lsm_hooks", NULL,
+ &fail_lsm_hooks.attr);
+ debugfs_create_u32("retval", mode, dir, &fail_lsm_hooks.retval);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+late_initcall(fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs);
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS */
+
+#else
+
+static inline int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void) { return 0; }
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS */
+
/*
* The default value of the LSM hook is defined in linux/lsm_hook_defs.h and
* can be accessed with:
@@ -707,16 +753,17 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
} while (0)

#define call_int_hook(FUNC, IRC, ...) ({ \
- int RC = IRC; \
- do { \
+ int RC = lsm_hooks_inject_fail(); \
+ if (RC == 0) { \
struct security_hook_list *P; \
+ RC = IRC; \
\
hlist_for_each_entry(P, &security_hook_heads.FUNC, list) { \
RC = P->hook.FUNC(__VA_ARGS__); \
if (RC != 0) \
break; \
} \
- } while (0); \
+ } \
RC; \
})

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2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog

2020-10-29 18:40:27

by Aleksandr Nogikh

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Subject: [PATCH v3 2/2] docs: add fail_lsm_hooks info to fault-injection.rst

From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>

Describe fail_lsm_hooks fault injection capability.

Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
---
v2:
- Added this commit.
---
Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
index 31ecfe44e5b4..48705adfbc18 100644
--- a/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
+++ b/Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst
@@ -48,6 +48,12 @@ Available fault injection capabilities
status code is NVME_SC_INVALID_OPCODE with no retry. The status code and
retry flag can be set via the debugfs.

+- fail_lsm_hooks
+
+ injects failures into LSM hooks. When a fault is injected, actual hooks
+ are not executed and a code from /sys/kernel/debug/fail_lsm_hooks/retval
+ is returned (the default value is -EACCES).
+

Configure fault-injection capabilities behavior
-----------------------------------------------
--
2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog

2020-11-02 14:08:25

by Marco Elver

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] security: add fault injection capability

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 19:35, Aleksandr Nogikh
<[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
>
> Add a fault injection capability to call_int_hook macro. This will
> facilitate testing of fault tolerance of the code that invokes
> security hooks as well as the fault tolerance of the LSM
> implementations themselves.
>
> Add a KConfig option (CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS) that controls whether the
> capability is enabled. In order to enable configuration from the user
> space, add the standard debugfs entries for fault injection (if
> CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS is enabled).
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <[email protected]>

> ---
> v2:
> * Renamed should_fail_lsm_hook() to lsm_hooks_inject_fail().
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++++
> security/security.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 537cf3c2937d..80d289591e29 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -1803,6 +1803,12 @@ config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
> help
> Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
>
> +config FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
> + bool "Fault-injection capability for LSM hooks"
> + depends on FAULT_INJECTION
> + help
> + Provide fault-injection capability for LSM hooks.
> +
> config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
> bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
> depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index 69ff6e2e2cd4..1105ad0f6891 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
> #include <linux/string.h>
> #include <linux/msg.h>
> +#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
> #include <net/flow.h>
>
> #define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR 2
> @@ -669,6 +670,51 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
> panic("%s: Early task alloc failed.\n", __func__);
> }
>
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
> +
> +static struct {
> + struct fault_attr attr;
> + int retval;
> +} fail_lsm_hooks = {
> + .attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
> + .retval = -EACCES
> +};
> +
> +static int __init setup_fail_lsm_hooks(char *str)
> +{
> + return setup_fault_attr(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, str);
> +}
> +__setup("fail_lsm_hooks=", setup_fail_lsm_hooks);
> +
> +static int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void)
> +{
> + return should_fail(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, 1) ? fail_lsm_hooks.retval : 0;
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
> +
> +static int __init fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs(void)
> +{
> + umode_t mode = S_IFREG | 0600;
> + struct dentry *dir;
> +
> + dir = fault_create_debugfs_attr("fail_lsm_hooks", NULL,
> + &fail_lsm_hooks.attr);
> + debugfs_create_u32("retval", mode, dir, &fail_lsm_hooks.retval);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs);
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS */
> +
> +#else
> +
> +static inline int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void) { return 0; }
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS */
> +
> /*
> * The default value of the LSM hook is defined in linux/lsm_hook_defs.h and
> * can be accessed with:
> @@ -707,16 +753,17 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
> } while (0)
>
> #define call_int_hook(FUNC, IRC, ...) ({ \
> - int RC = IRC; \
> - do { \
> + int RC = lsm_hooks_inject_fail(); \
> + if (RC == 0) { \
> struct security_hook_list *P; \
> + RC = IRC; \
> \
> hlist_for_each_entry(P, &security_hook_heads.FUNC, list) { \
> RC = P->hook.FUNC(__VA_ARGS__); \
> if (RC != 0) \
> break; \
> } \
> - } while (0); \
> + } \
> RC; \
> })
>
> --
> 2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog
>

2020-11-09 19:08:43

by Aleksandr Nogikh

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] security: add fault injection to LSM hooks

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:35, Aleksandr Nogikh
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
>
> Fault injection capabilities[Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst]
> facilitate testing of the stability of the Linux kernel by providing
> means to force a number of kernel interfaces to return error
> codes. This patch series proposes adding such fault injection
> capability into LSM hooks.
>
> The intent is to make it possible to test whether the existing kernel
> code properly handles negative return values of LSM hooks. Syzbot
> [https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md] will
> automatically do that with the aid of instrumentation tools once these
> changes are merged.
> [...]

What tree should these changes go to?

Is there anyone else who is not on the recipient list but still might
be interested in the series?

2020-11-10 03:17:02

by James Morris

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] security: add fault injection to LSM hooks

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 21:35, Aleksandr Nogikh
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
> >
> > Fault injection capabilities[Documentation/fault-injection/fault-injection.rst]
> > facilitate testing of the stability of the Linux kernel by providing
> > means to force a number of kernel interfaces to return error
> > codes. This patch series proposes adding such fault injection
> > capability into LSM hooks.
> >
> > The intent is to make it possible to test whether the existing kernel
> > code properly handles negative return values of LSM hooks. Syzbot
> > [https://github.com/google/syzkaller/blob/master/docs/syzbot.md] will
> > automatically do that with the aid of instrumentation tools once these
> > changes are merged.
> > [...]
>
> What tree should these changes go to?
>

Mine, but more signoffs/acks are required.

> Is there anyone else who is not on the recipient list but still might
> be interested in the series?
>

--
James Morris
<[email protected]>

2020-11-10 04:45:30

by Tetsuo Handa

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] security: add fault injection capability

On 2020/10/30 3:35, Aleksandr Nogikh wrote:
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
> +
> +static struct {
> + struct fault_attr attr;
> + int retval;
> +} fail_lsm_hooks = {
> + .attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
> + .retval = -EACCES
> +};
> +
> +static int __init setup_fail_lsm_hooks(char *str)
> +{
> + return setup_fault_attr(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, str);
> +}
> +__setup("fail_lsm_hooks=", setup_fail_lsm_hooks);
> +
> +static int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void)
> +{
> + return should_fail(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, 1) ? fail_lsm_hooks.retval : 0;
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
> +
> +static int __init fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs(void)
> +{
> + umode_t mode = S_IFREG | 0600;
> + struct dentry *dir;
> +
> + dir = fault_create_debugfs_attr("fail_lsm_hooks", NULL,
> + &fail_lsm_hooks.attr);
> + debugfs_create_u32("retval", mode, dir, &fail_lsm_hooks.retval);

Since production kernels will use CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS=n, we won't need to worry about userspace ABI.

Reviewed-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>

By the way, fail_lsm_hooks.retval is "signed int" but debugfs_create_u32() handles "unsigned int".
Do we want to allow lsm_hooks_inject_fail() to inject arbitrary !IS_ERR_VALUE() values?

> + return 0;
> +}

2020-11-10 17:45:27

by Andrey Konovalov

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] security: add fault injection capability

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 7:35 PM Aleksandr Nogikh
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>
>
> Add a fault injection capability to call_int_hook macro. This will
> facilitate testing of fault tolerance of the code that invokes
> security hooks as well as the fault tolerance of the LSM
> implementations themselves.
>
> Add a KConfig option (CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS) that controls whether the
> capability is enabled. In order to enable configuration from the user
> space, add the standard debugfs entries for fault injection (if
> CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS is enabled).
>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandr Nogikh <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <[email protected]>

> ---
> v2:
> * Renamed should_fail_lsm_hook() to lsm_hooks_inject_fail().
> ---
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 +++++
> security/security.c | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 537cf3c2937d..80d289591e29 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -1803,6 +1803,12 @@ config FAIL_MAKE_REQUEST
> help
> Provide fault-injection capability for disk IO.
>
> +config FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
> + bool "Fault-injection capability for LSM hooks"
> + depends on FAULT_INJECTION
> + help
> + Provide fault-injection capability for LSM hooks.
> +
> config FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT
> bool "Fault-injection capability for faking disk interrupts"
> depends on FAULT_INJECTION && BLOCK
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index 69ff6e2e2cd4..1105ad0f6891 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> #include <linux/backing-dev.h>
> #include <linux/string.h>
> #include <linux/msg.h>
> +#include <linux/fault-inject.h>
> #include <net/flow.h>
>
> #define MAX_LSM_EVM_XATTR 2
> @@ -669,6 +670,51 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
> panic("%s: Early task alloc failed.\n", __func__);
> }
>
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS
> +
> +static struct {
> + struct fault_attr attr;
> + int retval;
> +} fail_lsm_hooks = {
> + .attr = FAULT_ATTR_INITIALIZER,
> + .retval = -EACCES
> +};
> +
> +static int __init setup_fail_lsm_hooks(char *str)
> +{
> + return setup_fault_attr(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, str);
> +}
> +__setup("fail_lsm_hooks=", setup_fail_lsm_hooks);
> +
> +static int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void)
> +{
> + return should_fail(&fail_lsm_hooks.attr, 1) ? fail_lsm_hooks.retval : 0;
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS
> +
> +static int __init fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs(void)
> +{
> + umode_t mode = S_IFREG | 0600;
> + struct dentry *dir;
> +
> + dir = fault_create_debugfs_attr("fail_lsm_hooks", NULL,
> + &fail_lsm_hooks.attr);
> + debugfs_create_u32("retval", mode, dir, &fail_lsm_hooks.retval);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +
> +late_initcall(fail_lsm_hooks_debugfs);
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_DEBUG_FS */
> +
> +#else
> +
> +static inline int lsm_hooks_inject_fail(void) { return 0; }
> +
> +#endif /* CONFIG_FAIL_LSM_HOOKS */
> +
> /*
> * The default value of the LSM hook is defined in linux/lsm_hook_defs.h and
> * can be accessed with:
> @@ -707,16 +753,17 @@ static void __init lsm_early_task(struct task_struct *task)
> } while (0)
>
> #define call_int_hook(FUNC, IRC, ...) ({ \
> - int RC = IRC; \
> - do { \
> + int RC = lsm_hooks_inject_fail(); \
> + if (RC == 0) { \
> struct security_hook_list *P; \
> + RC = IRC; \
> \
> hlist_for_each_entry(P, &security_hook_heads.FUNC, list) { \
> RC = P->hook.FUNC(__VA_ARGS__); \
> if (RC != 0) \
> break; \
> } \
> - } while (0); \
> + } \
> RC; \
> })
>
> --
> 2.29.1.341.ge80a0c044ae-goog
>

2020-11-10 18:39:15

by Aleksandr Nogikh

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] security: add fault injection capability

On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:43 AM Tetsuo Handa
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
[...]
>
> By the way, fail_lsm_hooks.retval is "signed int" but debugfs_create_u32() handles "unsigned int".
> Do we want to allow lsm_hooks_inject_fail() to inject arbitrary !IS_ERR_VALUE() values?

Thanks for pointing it out. Technically, now it's possible to set a
negative value - internally, the kernel
will process negative integers anyway, and after casting the unsigned
value to a signed one, retval
will contain exactly what the user provided. However, if the user
retrieves the attribute value, they won't
get the exact value that was set (if it was negative).

I'll change debugfs_create_u32 to something else in v4, so that it'll
be more explicit and so that it'll be
possible to read negative values normally.