From c6ce4378f20a3bce1da53c9e2d2f74d853096ab8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:04:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] selinux: reject writable opens of policy file, drop mmap shared/write check The policy file has no write method and is exposed read-only (S_IRUGO in selinux_files[]), yet sel_open_policy() performs no open mode check, so a CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE caller can open it O_RDWR. Reject FMODE_WRITE at open, as kernfs does. The file can then never be mapped with FMODE_WRITE, so do_mmap() always clears VM_MAYWRITE and VM_SHARED for MAP_SHARED mappings and the VM_SHARED check in sel_mmap_policy() cannot be reached. Remove it. This also stops sel_mmap_policy() clearing VM_MAYWRITE on a mapping that is neither a PFN map nor a mixed map, ahead of the core enforcing that only such mappings may do so. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20261013-b4-mmap-prepare-vma-flag-sanify-v6-12-1aa3c9b139f9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Reviewed-by: Jann Horn Acked-by: Paul Moore Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) Cc: Liam R. Howlett Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Pedro Falcato Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Dennis Dalessandro Cc: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Leon Romanovsky Cc: Jaroslav Kysela Cc: Takashi Iwai Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Daniel Borkmann Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Eduard Zingerman Cc: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Cc: Zi Yan Cc: Baolin Wang Cc: Nico Pache Cc: Ryan Roberts Cc: Dev Jain Cc: Barry Song Cc: Lance Yang Cc: Usama Arif Cc: Kiryl Shutsemau Cc: Doug Gilbert Cc: James Bottomley Cc: Martin K. Petersen Cc: Simona Vetter Cc: Helge Deller Cc: Sebastian Reichel Cc: John Hubbard Cc: Peter Xu Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Harry Yoo Cc: Juri Lelli Cc: Vincent Guittot Cc: Maarten Lankhorst Cc: Maxime Ripard Cc: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: David Airlie Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Marc Zyngier Cc: Oliver Upton Cc: Catalin Marinas Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan Cc: Anup Patel Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Cc: Albert Ou Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Janosch Frank Cc: Claudio Imbrenda Cc: Alexander Gordeev Cc: Gerald Schaefer Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Vasily Gorbik Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Andreas Larsson Cc: Al Viro Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Matthew Brost Cc: Joshua Hahn Cc: Rakie Kim Cc: Byungchul Park Cc: Gregory Price Cc: Ying Huang Cc: Alistair Popple Cc: Chris Li Cc: Kairui Song Cc: Kemeng Shi Cc: Nhat Pham Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Youngjun Park Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Qi Zheng Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Axel Rasmussen Cc: Yuanchu Xie Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Chengming Zhou Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Xu Xin Cc: Ihor Solodrai Cc: Bert Karwatzki --- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 11 +++-------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c index c7d91476971c..545a6f89f9e7 100644 --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c @@ -340,6 +340,9 @@ static int sel_open_policy(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) struct policy_load_memory *plm = NULL; int rc; + if (filp->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE) + return -EACCES; + rc = avc_has_perm(current_sid(), SECINITSID_SECURITY, SECCLASS_SECURITY, SECURITY__READ_POLICY, NULL); if (rc) @@ -424,14 +427,6 @@ static const struct vm_operations_struct sel_mmap_policy_ops = { static int sel_mmap_policy(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma) { - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) { - /* do not allow mprotect to make mapping writable */ - vm_flags_clear(vma, VM_MAYWRITE); - - if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) - return -EACCES; - } - vm_flags_set(vma, VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP); vma->vm_ops = &sel_mmap_policy_ops;