linux.git/security/selinux/hooks.c, branch master

selinux: fix incorrect execmem checks on overlayfs

2026-07-14T22:10:20Z

The commit fixing the overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks failed to skip the execmem check in __file_map_prot_check() for the case where the "mounter check" is being performed. This check should be performed only against the credentials of the task that is calling mmap()/mprotect(), since it doesn't pertain to the file itself, but rather just gates the ability of the calling task to get an executable memory mapping in general. The purpose of the "mounter check" is to guard against using an overlayfs mount to gain file access that would otherwise be denied to the mounter. For execmem this is not relevant, as there is no further file access granted based on it (notice that the file's context is not used as the target in the check), so checking it also against the mounter credentials would be incorrect. Fix this by passing a boolean to [__]file_map_prot_check() and selinux_mmap_file_common() that indicates if we are doing the "mounter check" and skiping the execmem check in that case. Since this boolean also indicates if we use current_cred() or the mounter cred as the subject, also remove the "cred" argument from these functions and determine it based on the boolean and the file struct. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 82544d36b172 ("selinux: fix overlayfs mmap() and mprotect() access checks") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: avoid sk_socket dereference in selinux_sctp_bind_connect()

2026-07-01T22:22:22Z

selinux_sctp_bind_connect() dereferences sk->sk_socket to pass a struct socket * to selinux_socket_bind() and selinux_socket_connect_helper(). However, when the hook is invoked from the ASCONF softirq path (sctp_process_asconf), there is no file reference guaranteeing that sk->sk_socket is non-NULL. The setsockopt callers (bindx, connectx, set_primary, sendmsg connect) hold a file reference and are not affected. Both selinux_socket_bind() and selinux_socket_connect_helper() immediately resolve sock->sk, never using the struct socket * for anything else. Refactor the inner logic into helpers that take a struct sock * directly so that selinux_sctp_bind_connect() never needs to touch sk->sk_socket at all. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: d452930fd3b9 ("selinux: Add SCTP support") Suggested-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Tristan Madani Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley Tested-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: check connect-related permissions on TCP Fast Open

2026-07-01T21:09:53Z

Similar to Landlock, SELinux was not updated when TCP Fast Open support was introduced to ensure connect-related permissions are checked when using TCP Fast Open. Update its socket_sendmsg() hook to call selinux_socket_connect() when MSG_FASTOPEN is passed. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20260616201615.275032-1-hexlabsecurity@proton.me/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/20260617180526.15627-2-matthieu@buffet.re/ Reported-by: Bryam Vargas Reported-by: Matthieu Buffet Reported-by: Mikhail Ivanov Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Tested-by: Bryam Vargas Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm

2026-06-17T11:34:16Z

Pull lsm update from Paul Moore: "A single LSM update the security_inode_listsecurity() hook to be able to leverage the xattr_list_one() helper function. We wanted to do this for a while, but we needed to fixup the callers in the NFS code first. With the NFS code changes shipping in Linux v7.0 and no one complaining, it seemed a good time to complete the shift" * tag 'lsm-pr-20260615' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: security,fs,nfs,net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface

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

2026-05-01T15:29:33Z

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

selinux: fix avdcache auditing

2026-04-28T22:13:58Z

The per-task avdcache was incorrectly saving and reusing the audited vector computed by avc_audit_required() rather than recomputing based on the currently requested permissions and distinguishing the denied versus allowed cases. As a result, some permission checks were not being audited, e.g. directory write checks after a previously cached directory search check. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: dde3a5d0f4dce ("selinux: move avdcache to per-task security struct") Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley [PM: line wrap tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: don't reserve xattr slot when we won't fill it

2026-04-27T23:32:56Z

Move lsm_get_xattr_slot() below the SBLABEL_MNT check so we don't leave a NULL-named slot in the array when returning -EOPNOTSUPP; filesystem initxattrs() callbacks stop iterating at the first NULL ->name, silently dropping xattrs installed by later LSMs. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David Windsor Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: use sk blob accessor in socket permission helpers

2026-04-27T23:26:57Z

SELinux socket state lives in the composite LSM socket blob. sock_has_perm() and nlmsg_sock_has_extended_perms() currently dereference sk->sk_security directly, which assumes the SELinux socket blob is at offset zero. In stacked configurations that assumption does not hold. If another LSM allocates socket blob storage before SELinux, these helpers may read the wrong blob and feed invalid SID and class values into AVC checks. Use selinux_sock() instead of accessing sk->sk_security directly. Fixes: d1d991efaf34 ("selinux: Add netlink xperm support") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.13+ Signed-off-by: Zongyao Chen Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2026-04-15T19:59:16Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "maple_tree: Replace big node with maple copy" (Liam Howlett) Mainly prepararatory work for ongoing development but it does reduce stack usage and is an improvement. - "mm, swap: swap table phase III: remove swap_map" (Kairui Song) Offers memory savings by removing the static swap_map. It also yields some CPU savings and implements several cleanups. - "mm: memfd_luo: preserve file seals" (Pratyush Yadav) File seal preservation to LUO's memfd code - "mm: zswap: add per-memcg stat for incompressible pages" (Jiayuan Chen) Additional userspace stats reportng to zswap - "arch, mm: consolidate empty_zero_page" (Mike Rapoport) Some cleanups for our handling of ZERO_PAGE() and zero_pfn - "mm/kmemleak: Improve scan_should_stop() implementation" (Zhongqiu Han) A robustness improvement and some cleanups in the kmemleak code - "Improve khugepaged scan logic" (Vernon Yang) Improve khugepaged scan logic and reduce CPU consumption by prioritizing scanning tasks that access memory frequently - "Make KHO Stateless" (Jason Miu) Simplify Kexec Handover by transitioning KHO from an xarray-based metadata tracking system with serialization to a radix tree data structure that can be passed directly to the next kernel - "mm: vmscan: add PID and cgroup ID to vmscan tracepoints" (Thomas Ballasi and Steven Rostedt) Enhance vmscan's tracepointing - "mm: arch/shstk: Common shadow stack mapping helper and VM_NOHUGEPAGE" (Catalin Marinas) Cleanup for the shadow stack code: remove per-arch code in favour of a generic implementation - "Fix KASAN support for KHO restored vmalloc regions" (Pasha Tatashin) Fix a WARN() which can be emitted the KHO restores a vmalloc area - "mm: Remove stray references to pagevec" (Tal Zussman) Several cleanups, mainly udpating references to "struct pagevec", which became folio_batch three years ago - "mm: Eliminate fake head pages from vmemmap optimization" (Kiryl Shutsemau) Simplify the HugeTLB vmemmap optimization (HVO) by changing how tail pages encode their relationship to the head page - "mm/damon/core: improve DAMOS quota efficiency for core layer filters" (SeongJae Park) Improve two problematic behaviors of DAMOS that makes it less efficient when core layer filters are used - "mm/damon: strictly respect min_nr_regions" (SeongJae Park) Improve DAMON usability by extending the treatment of the min_nr_regions user-settable parameter - "mm/page_alloc: pcp locking cleanup" (Vlastimil Babka) The proper fix for a previously hotfixed SMP=n issue. Code simplifications and cleanups ensued - "mm: cleanups around unmapping / zapping" (David Hildenbrand) A bunch of cleanups around unmapping and zapping. Mostly simplifications, code movements, documentation and renaming of zapping functions - "support batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU" (Baolin Wang) Batched checking of the young flag for MGLRU. It's part cleanups; one benchmark shows large performance benefits for arm64 - "memcg: obj stock and slab stat caching cleanups" (Johannes Weiner) memcg cleanup and robustness improvements - "Allow order zero pages in page reporting" (Yuvraj Sakshith) Enhance free page reporting - it is presently and undesirably order-0 pages when reporting free memory. - "mm: vma flag tweaks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Cleanup work following from the recent conversion of the VMA flags to a bitmap - "mm/damon: add optional debugging-purpose sanity checks" (SeongJae Park) Add some more developer-facing debug checks into DAMON core - "mm/damon: test and document power-of-2 min_region_sz requirement" (SeongJae Park) An additional DAMON kunit test and makes some adjustments to the addr_unit parameter handling - "mm/damon/core: make passed_sample_intervals comparisons overflow-safe" (SeongJae Park) Fix a hard-to-hit time overflow issue in DAMON core - "mm/damon: improve/fixup/update ratio calculation, test and documentation" (SeongJae Park) A batch of misc/minor improvements and fixups for DAMON - "mm: move vma_(kernel|mmu)_pagesize() out of hugetlb.c" (David Hildenbrand) Fix a possible issue with dax-device when CONFIG_HUGETLB=n. Some code movement was required. - "zram: recompression cleanups and tweaks" (Sergey Senozhatsky) A somewhat random mix of fixups, recompression cleanups and improvements in the zram code - "mm/damon: support multiple goal-based quota tuning algorithms" (SeongJae Park) Extend DAMOS quotas goal auto-tuning to support multiple tuning algorithms that users can select - "mm: thp: reduce unnecessary start_stop_khugepaged()" (Breno Leitao) Fix the khugpaged sysfs handling so we no longer spam the logs with reams of junk when starting/stopping khugepaged - "mm: improve map count checks" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Provide some cleanups and slight fixes in the mremap, mmap and vma code - "mm/damon: support addr_unit on default monitoring targets for modules" (SeongJae Park) Extend the use of DAMON core's addr_unit tunable - "mm: khugepaged cleanups and mTHP prerequisites" (Nico Pache) Cleanups to khugepaged and is a base for Nico's planned khugepaged mTHP support - "mm: memory hot(un)plug and SPARSEMEM cleanups" (David Hildenbrand) Code movement and cleanups in the memhotplug and sparsemem code - "mm: remove CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE and cleanup CONFIG_MIGRATION" (David Hildenbrand) Rationalize some memhotplug Kconfig support - "change young flag check functions to return bool" (Baolin Wang) Cleanups to change all young flag check functions to return bool - "mm/damon/sysfs: fix memory leak and NULL dereference issues" (Josh Law and SeongJae Park) Fix a few potential DAMON bugs - "mm/vma: convert vm_flags_t to vma_flags_t in vma code" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Convert a lot of the existing use of the legacy vm_flags_t data type to the new vma_flags_t type which replaces it. Mainly in the vma code. - "mm: expand mmap_prepare functionality and usage" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Expand the mmap_prepare functionality, which is intended to replace the deprecated f_op->mmap hook which has been the source of bugs and security issues for some time. Cleanups, documentation, extension of mmap_prepare into filesystem drivers - "mm/huge_memory: refactor zap_huge_pmd()" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Simplify and clean up zap_huge_pmd(). Additional cleanups around vm_normal_folio_pmd() and the softleaf functionality are performed. * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-13-21-45' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration mm/khugepaged: fix issue with tracking lock mm/huge_memory: add and use has_deposited_pgtable() mm/huge_memory: add and use normal_or_softleaf_folio_pmd() mm: add softleaf_is_valid_pmd_entry(), pmd_to_softleaf_folio() mm/huge_memory: separate out the folio part of zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: use mm instead of tlb->mm mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary sanity checks mm/huge_memory: deduplicate zap deposited table call mm/huge_memory: remove unnecessary VM_BUG_ON_PAGE() mm/huge_memory: add a common exit path to zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: handle buggy PMD entry in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: have zap_huge_pmd return a boolean, add kdoc mm/huge: avoid big else branch in zap_huge_pmd() mm/huge_memory: simplify vma_is_specal_huge() mm: on remap assert that input range within the proposed VMA mm: add mmap_action_map_kernel_pages[_full]() uio: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare in uio_info drivers: hv: vmbus: replace deprecated mmap hook with mmap_prepare mm: allow handling of stacked mmap_prepare hooks in more drivers ...

Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux

2026-04-13T22:34:52Z

Pull selinux update from Paul Moore: - Annotate a known race condition to soothe KCSAN * tag 'selinux-pr-20260410' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux: selinux: annotate intentional data race in inode_doinit_with_dentry()