[PATCH v2 00/10] LSM: Module stacking in support of S.A.R.A and Landlock

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Sep 12 21:29:32 UTC 2018


Adding the SARA and LandLock authors for review & comment.

Salvatore & Mickaël: does this patchset meet your needs for merging to 
mainline?



On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Casey Schaufler wrote:

> LSM: Module stacking in support of S.A.R.A and Landlock
> 
> v2: Reduce the patchset to what is required to support
>     the proposed S.A.R.A. and LandLock security modules
> 
> The S.A.R.A. security module is intended to be used
> in conjunction with other security modules. It requires
> state to be maintained for the credential, which
> in turn requires a mechanism for sharing the credential
> security blob. The module also requires mechanism for
> user space manipulation of the credential information,
> hence an additional subdirectory in /proc/.../attr.
> 
> The LandLock security module provides user configurable
> policy in the secmark mechanism. It requires data in
> the credential, file and inode security blobs. For this
> to be used along side the existing "major" security
> modules mechanism for sharing these blobs is provided.
> 
> A side effect of providing sharing of the crendential
> security blob is that the TOMOYO module can be used at
> the same time as the other "major" modules.
> 
> The mechanism for configuring which security modules are
> enabled has to change when stacking in enabled. Any
> module that uses just the security blobs that are shared
> can be selected. Additionally, one other "major" module
> can be selected.
> 
> The security module stacking issues around networking and
> IPC are not addressed here as they are beyond what is
> required for TOMOYO, S.A.R.A and LandLock.
> 
> git://github.com/cschaufler/lsm-stacking.git#stacking-4.19-rc2-saralock
> 
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst |  23 ++-
>  fs/proc/base.c                          |  64 ++++++-
>  fs/proc/internal.h                      |   1 +
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h               |  20 ++-
>  include/linux/security.h                |  15 +-
>  kernel/cred.c                           |  13 --
>  security/Kconfig                        |  92 ++++++++++
>  security/apparmor/domain.c              |   2 +-
>  security/apparmor/include/cred.h        |  24 ++-
>  security/apparmor/include/file.h        |   9 +-
>  security/apparmor/include/lib.h         |   4 +
>  security/apparmor/lsm.c                 |  53 ++++--
>  security/apparmor/task.c                |   6 +-
>  security/security.c                     | 293 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  security/selinux/hooks.c                | 215 ++++++++---------------
>  security/selinux/include/objsec.h       |  37 +++-
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c            |   5 +-
>  security/selinux/xfrm.c                 |   4 +-
>  security/smack/smack.h                  |  42 ++++-
>  security/smack/smack_access.c           |   4 +-
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c              | 283 +++++++++++-------------------
>  security/smack/smackfs.c                |  18 +-
>  security/tomoyo/common.h                |  31 +++-
>  security/tomoyo/domain.c                |   4 +-
>  security/tomoyo/securityfs_if.c         |  15 +-
>  security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c                |  57 +++++--
>  26 files changed, 899 insertions(+), 435 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
James Morris
<jmorris at namei.org>


More information about the Linux-security-module-archive mailing list