kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/security/smack, branch master

Merge branch 'next' of https://github.com/cschaufler/smack-next

2026-07-06T13:53:40+00:00

smack: restrict smackfs/{direct,mapped} values to 0-255

2026-06-22T20:52:24+00:00

Both smackfs/direct and smackfs/mapped incorrectly accept the full range of integer values. For example: # cd /sys/fs/smackfs/ # cat direct ; echo 250 # cat cipso2 @ 250/2 _ 250/2,4,5,6,7,8 * 250/3,5,7 ^ 250/2,4,5,6,7 ? 250/3,4,5,6,7,8 # echo -1234 >direct ; cat direct ; echo -1234 # cat cipso2 @ -1234/2 _ -1234/2,4,5,6,7,8 * -1234/3,5,7 ^ -1234/2,4,5,6,7 ? -1234/3,4,5,6,7,8 # I noticed two things regarding this: 1) sensitivity levels are truncated to 8 bits when labeling outgoing packets (0x2e = 46 for the -1234 example above) 2) the reverse process fails: incoming packets with sensitivity level 46 do not match these smackfs/cipso2 entries. Even observation (1) on its own warrants a fix. This patch restricts smackfs/direct and smackfs/mapped accepted values to the 0-255 range. Fixes: e114e473771c ("Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

smack: deduplicate smackfs/{direct,mapped} file_operations

2026-06-22T20:52:07+00:00

The file_operations for smackfs/direct and smackfs/mapped are identical up to a textual replacement of "direct" with "mapped" This patch combines two instances of file_operations into one, handling both files. Fixes: f7112e6c9abf ("Smack: allow for significantly longer Smack labels v4") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

smack: show msgrcv() subject task in audit

2026-06-22T18:16:40+00:00

When a task msgrcv()'es some message the SMACK audit log message looks like: fn=smk_tskacc_msq action=denied subject="bar" object="foo" requested=rw pid=456 comm="mrcv" ipc_key=2 fn=smk_tskacc_msq action=granted subject="bar" object="foo" requested=rw pid=519 comm="mrcv" ipc_key=2 where pid= is a pid of a “current” task which calls smk_tskacc_msq(). Usually, the caller of smk_tskacc_msq() is also a subject task which determines its own permission. In the example above the 'mrcv' process has label 'bar' and wants "rw" for label "foo". However, when sender task delivers message using ipc/msg.c`pipelined_send(): ` security_msg_queue_msgrcv(,, msr->r_tsk,,) ` smp_store_release(&msr->r_msg, msg) “current” task and “subject” task differ, and the “subject” task is missed from the audit message. This patch adds two fields, subj_pid and subj_comm, into the audit message: fn=smk_tskacc_msq action=granted subject="bar" object="foo" requested=rw subj_pid=564 subj_comm="mrcv" pid=577 comm="msnd" ipc_key=2 Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

smack: fix incorrect task context in smack_msg_queue_msgrcv

2026-06-22T18:16:23+00:00

The smack_msg_queue_msgrcv() function incorrectly checks the permissions of the 'current' task instead of the 'target' task. In the msgsnd() syscall path, if a receiver is already waiting, the pipelined_send() optimization is used to push the message directly to the receiver task: ipc/msg.c`pipelined_send(): ` smp_store_release(&msr->r_msg, msg) In this case, the 'sender' (current) task performs the check on behalf of the 'receiver' task (msr->r_tsk, passed as the 'target' parameter): ipc/msg.c`pipelined_send(): ` security_msg_queue_msgrcv(,, target := msr->r_tsk,,) However, smack_msg_queue_msgrcv() ignores the 'target' and checks 'current': smack_msg_queue_msgrcv(…) ` smk_curacc_msq(isp, MAY_READWRITE); // current task 'current' MAY satisfy smack_msg_queue_msgrcv r/w requirement, but 'target' (the receiver task) might NOT; as a result, an unauthorized receiver gets the message, violating MAC policy. Test: 1) create a sysv message queue with label “foo” 2) echo "bar foo r" >/smack/load2 3) msgrcv(,,,0,MSG_NOERROR) in "bar"-labeled task. The task is waiting for the messages ... 4) msgsnd() from a "foo"-labeled task: "bar"-labeled task gets the message. This patch fixes the issue by checking permission on the 'target' task instead of 'current'. (2008-02-04, Casey Schaufler) Fixes: e114e473771c ("Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel") Signed-off-by: Konstantin Andreev Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

security: smack: fix spelling mistake

2026-06-22T17:23:37+00:00

Fix misspelling: overriden → overridden Signed-off-by: Qingshuang Fu Changes since v1: - Split original single patch into two standalone patches, separate AppArmor and Smack changes for different maintainer trees. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface

2026-05-01T15:29:33+00:00

Update the security_inode_listsecurity() interface to allow use of the xattr_list_one() helper and update the hook implementations. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20250424152822.2719-1-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley [PM: forward porting to bring this patch up to v7.1-rc1+] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

smack: simplify write handlers of sysfs entries

2026-04-29T21:14:35+00:00

Use the convenient 'kstrto{u,s}32_from_user()' to simplify write handlers of /smack/{doi,direct,mapped,logging,ptrace} sysfs entries. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler

Merge tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2026-04-15T01:36:10+00:00

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core & protocols: - Support HW queue leasing, allowing containers to be granted access to HW queues for zero-copy operations and AF_XDP - Number of code moves to help the compiler with inlining. Avoid output arguments for returning drop reason where possible - Rework drop handling within qdiscs to include more metadata about the reason and dropping qdisc in the tracepoints - Remove the rtnl_lock use from IP Multicast Routing - Pack size information into the Rx Flow Steering table pointer itself. This allows making the table itself a flat array of u32s, thus making the table allocation size a power of two - Report TCP delayed ack timer information via socket diag - Add ip_local_port_step_width sysctl to allow distributing the randomly selected ports more evenly throughout the allowed space - Add support for per-route tunsrc in IPv6 segment routing - Start work of switching sockopt handling to iov_iter - Improve dynamic recvbuf sizing in MPTCP, limit burstiness and avoid buffer size drifting up - Support MSG_EOR in MPTCP - Add stp_mode attribute to the bridge driver for STP mode selection. This addresses concerns about call_usermodehelper() usage - Remove UDP-Lite support (as announced in 2023) - Remove support for building IPv6 as a module. Remove the now unnecessary function calling indirection Cross-tree stuff: - Move Michael MIC code from generic crypto into wireless, it's considered insecure but some WiFi networks still need it Netfilter: - Switch nft_fib_ipv6 module to no longer need temporary dst_entry object allocations by using fib6_lookup() + RCU. Florian W reports this gets us ~13% higher packet rate - Convert IPVS's global __ip_vs_mutex to per-net service_mutex and switch the service tables to be per-net. Convert some code that walks the service lists to use RCU instead of the service_mutex - Add more opinionated input validation to lower security exposure - Make IPVS hash tables to be per-netns and resizable Wireless: - Finished assoc frame encryption/EPPKE/802.1X-over-auth - Radar detection improvements - Add 6 GHz incumbent signal detection APIs - Multi-link support for FILS, probe response templates and client probing - New APIs and mac80211 support for NAN (Neighbor Aware Networking, aka Wi-Fi Aware) so less work must be in firmware Driver API: - Add numerical ID for devlink instances (to avoid having to create fake bus/device pairs just to have an ID). Support shared devlink instances which span multiple PFs - Add standard counters for reporting pause storm events (implement in mlx5 and fbnic) - Add configuration API for completion writeback buffering (implement in mana) - Support driver-initiated change of RSS context sizes - Support DPLL monitoring input frequency (implement in zl3073x) - Support per-port resources in devlink (implement in mlx5) Misc: - Expand the YAML spec for Netfilter Drivers - Software: - macvlan: support multicast rx for bridge ports with shared source MAC address - team: decouple receive and transmit enablement for IEEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" - Ethernet high-speed NICs: - nVidia/Mellanox: - support high order pages in zero-copy mode (for payload coalescing) - support multiple packets in a page (for systems with 64kB pages) - Broadcom 25-400GE (bnxt): - implement XDP RSS hash metadata extraction - add software fallback for UDP GSO, lowering the IOMMU cost - Broadcom 800GE (bnge): - add link status and configuration handling - add various HW and SW statistics - Marvell/Cavium: - NPC HW block support for cn20k - Huawei (hinic3): - add mailbox / control queue - add rx VLAN offload - add driver info and link management - Ethernet NICs: - Marvell/Aquantia: - support reading SFP module info on some AQC100 cards - Realtek PCI (r8169): - add support for RTL8125cp - Realtek USB (r8152): - support for the RTL8157 5Gbit chip - add 2500baseT EEE status/configuration support - Ethernet NICs embedded and off-the-shelf IP: - Synopsys (stmmac): - cleanup and reorganize SerDes handling and PCS support - cleanup descriptor handling and per-platform data - cleanup and consolidate MDIO defines and handling - shrink driver memory use for internal structures - improve Tx IRQ coalescing - improve TCP segmentation handling - add support for Spacemit K3 - Cadence (macb): - support PHYs that have inband autoneg disabled with GEM - support IEEE 802.3az EEE - rework usrio capabilities and handling - AMD (xgbe): - improve power management for S0i3 - improve TX resilience for link-down handling - Virtual: - Google cloud vNIC: - support larger ring sizes in DQO-QPL mode - improve HW-GRO handling - support UDP GSO for DQO format - PCIe NTB: - support queue count configuration - Ethernet PHYs: - automatically disable PHY autonomous EEE if MAC is in charge - Broadcom: - add BCM84891/BCM84892 support - Micrel: - support for LAN9645X internal PHY - Realtek: - add RTL8224 pair order support - support PHY LEDs on RTL8211F-VD - support spread spectrum clocking (SSC) - Maxlinear: - add PHY-level statistics via ethtool - Ethernet switches: - Maxlinear (mxl862xx): - support for bridge offloading - support for VLANs - support driver statistics - Bluetooth: - large number of fixes and new device IDs - Mediatek: - support MT6639 (MT7927) - support MT7902 SDIO - WiFi: - Intel (iwlwifi): - UNII-9 and continuing UHR work - MediaTek (mt76): - mt7996/mt7925 MLO fixes/improvements - mt7996 NPU support (HW eth/wifi traffic offload) - Qualcomm (ath12k): - monitor mode support on IPQ5332 - basic hwmon temperature reporting - support IPQ5424 - Realtek: - add USB RX aggregation to improve performance - add USB TX flow control by tracking in-flight URBs - Cellular: - IPA v5.2 support" * tag 'net-next-7.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1561 commits) net: pse-pd: fix kernel-doc function name for pse_control_find_by_id() wireguard: device: use exit_rtnl callback instead of manual rtnl_lock in pre_exit wireguard: allowedips: remove redundant space tools: ynl: add sample for wireguard wireguard: allowedips: Use kfree_rcu() instead of call_rcu() MAINTAINERS: Add netkit selftest files selftests/net: Add additional test coverage in nk_qlease selftests/net: Split netdevsim tests from HW tests in nk_qlease tools/ynl: Make YnlFamily closeable as a context manager net: airoha: Add missing PPE configurations in airoha_ppe_hw_init() net: airoha: Fix VIP configuration for AN7583 SoC net: caif: clear client service pointer on teardown net: strparser: fix skb_head leak in strp_abort_strp() net: usb: cdc-phonet: fix skb frags[] overflow in rx_complete() selftests/bpf: add test for xdp_master_redirect with bond not up net, bpf: fix null-ptr-deref in xdp_master_redirect() for down master net: airoha: Remove PCE_MC_EN_MASK bit in REG_FE_PCE_CFG configuration sctp: disable BH before calling udp_tunnel_xmit_skb() sctp: fix missing encap_port propagation for GSO fragments net: airoha: Rely on net_device pointer in ETS callbacks ...

Smack: Fix error in capability bypass

2026-03-23T15:24:15+00:00

A bug in smack_inode_xattr_skipcap() was introduced in the inode capability handling. The strncmp guard at the top of the function is coded backwards, resulting in consistently incorrect results. Correct the check, and the code functions as it should. The error manifests as requiring CAP_SYS_ADMIN as well as CAP_MAC_ADMIN to change an inode's MAC attributes. Fixes: 61df7b828204 ("lsm: fixup the inode xattr capability handling") Reported-by: Bumjin Im Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler