Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: selinux: allow multiple opens of /sys/fs/selinux/policy Currently there can only be a single open of /sys/fs/selinux/policy at any time. This allows any process to block any other process from reading the kernel policy. The original motivation seems to have been a mix of preventing an inconsistent view of the policy size and preventing userspace from allocating kernel memory without bound, but this is arguably equally bad. Eliminate the policy_opened flag and shrink the critical section that the policy mutex is held. While we are making changes here, drop a couple of extraneous BUG_ONs.

References 2

• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/714362f3779dfa453a78ced32396a72726962a41
• git.kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a02cd6805562305f936e807da83e253b719dd965

Remediation