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Commitb1d9e6b064("LSM: Switch to lists of hooks") switched the LSM infrastructure to use per-hook lists, which meant that removing the hooks for a given module was no longer atomic. Even though the commit clearly documents that modules implementing runtime revmoval of hooks (only SELinux attempts this madness) need to take special precautions to avoid race conditions, SELinux has never addressed this. By inserting an artificial delay between the loop iterations of security_delete_hooks() (I used 100 ms), booting to a state where SELinux is enabled, but policy is not yet loaded, and running these commands: while true; do ping -c 1 <some IP>; done & echo -n 1 >/sys/fs/selinux/disable kill %1 wait ...I was able to trigger NULL pointer dereferences in various places. I also have a report of someone getting panics on a stock RHEL-8 kernel after setting SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config and rebooting (without adding "selinux=0" to kernel command-line). Reordering the SELinux hooks such that those that allocate structures are removed last seems to prevent these panics. It is very much possible that this doesn't make the runtime disable completely race-free, but at least it makes the operation much less fragile. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes:b1d9e6b064("LSM: Switch to lists of hooks") Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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