6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Shivank Garg shivankg@amd.com
[ Upstream commit cbe4134ea4bc493239786220bd69cb8a13493190 ]
Export anon_inode_make_secure_inode() to allow KVM guest_memfd to create anonymous inodes with proper security context. This replaces the current pattern of calling alloc_anon_inode() followed by inode_init_security_anon() for creating security context manually.
This change also fixes a security regression in secretmem where the S_PRIVATE flag was not cleared after alloc_anon_inode(), causing LSM/SELinux checks to be bypassed for secretmem file descriptors.
As guest_memfd currently resides in the KVM module, we need to export this symbol for use outside the core kernel. In the future, guest_memfd might be moved to core-mm, at which point the symbols no longer would have to be exported. When/if that happens is still unclear.
Fixes: 2bfe15c52612 ("mm: create security context for memfd_secret inodes") Suggested-by: David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com Suggested-by: Mike Rapoport rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Shivank Garg shivankg@amd.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250620070328.803704-3-shivankg@amd.com Acked-by: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner brauner@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- fs/anon_inodes.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++ mm/secretmem.c | 9 +-------- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c index 583ac81669c24..35f765610802a 100644 --- a/fs/anon_inodes.c +++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c @@ -55,14 +55,25 @@ static struct file_system_type anon_inode_fs_type = { .kill_sb = kill_anon_super, };
-static struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode( - const char *name, - const struct inode *context_inode) +/** + * anon_inode_make_secure_inode - allocate an anonymous inode with security context + * @sb: [in] Superblock to allocate from + * @name: [in] Name of the class of the newfile (e.g., "secretmem") + * @context_inode: + * [in] Optional parent inode for security inheritance + * + * The function ensures proper security initialization through the LSM hook + * security_inode_init_security_anon(). + * + * Return: Pointer to new inode on success, ERR_PTR on failure. + */ +struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode(struct super_block *sb, const char *name, + const struct inode *context_inode) { struct inode *inode; int error;
- inode = alloc_anon_inode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb); + inode = alloc_anon_inode(sb); if (IS_ERR(inode)) return inode; inode->i_flags &= ~S_PRIVATE; @@ -74,6 +85,7 @@ static struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode( } return inode; } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES(anon_inode_make_secure_inode, "kvm");
static struct file *__anon_inode_getfile(const char *name, const struct file_operations *fops, @@ -88,7 +100,8 @@ static struct file *__anon_inode_getfile(const char *name, return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
if (make_inode) { - inode = anon_inode_make_secure_inode(name, context_inode); + inode = anon_inode_make_secure_inode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb, + name, context_inode); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { file = ERR_CAST(inode); goto err; diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index b98f128c9afa7..a6de8d93838d1 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -3407,6 +3407,8 @@ extern int simple_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping, extern const struct address_space_operations ram_aops; extern int always_delete_dentry(const struct dentry *); extern struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *); +struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode(struct super_block *sb, const char *name, + const struct inode *context_inode); extern int simple_nosetlease(struct file *, int, struct file_lease **, void **); extern const struct dentry_operations simple_dentry_operations;
diff --git a/mm/secretmem.c b/mm/secretmem.c index 1b0a214ee5580..4662f2510ae5f 100644 --- a/mm/secretmem.c +++ b/mm/secretmem.c @@ -195,18 +195,11 @@ static struct file *secretmem_file_create(unsigned long flags) struct file *file; struct inode *inode; const char *anon_name = "[secretmem]"; - int err;
- inode = alloc_anon_inode(secretmem_mnt->mnt_sb); + inode = anon_inode_make_secure_inode(secretmem_mnt->mnt_sb, anon_name, NULL); if (IS_ERR(inode)) return ERR_CAST(inode);
- err = security_inode_init_security_anon(inode, &QSTR(anon_name), NULL); - if (err) { - file = ERR_PTR(err); - goto err_free_inode; - } - file = alloc_file_pseudo(inode, secretmem_mnt, "secretmem", O_RDWR, &secretmem_fops); if (IS_ERR(file))