[PATCH 03/17] security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion [ver #5]

James Morris jmorris at namei.org
Wed Mar 18 18:57:34 UTC 2020


On Wed, 18 Mar 2020, David Howells wrote:

> Add a security hook that allows an LSM to rule on whether a notification
> message is allowed to be inserted into a particular watch queue.
> 
> The hook is given the following information:
> 
>  (1) The credentials of the triggerer (which may be init_cred for a system
>      notification, eg. a hardware error).
> 
>  (2) The credentials of the whoever set the watch.
> 
>  (3) The notification message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
> cc: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> cc: Stephen Smalley <sds at tycho.nsa.gov>
> cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
> ---
> 
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/security.h  |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  security/security.c       |    9 +++++++++
>  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)


Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris at linux.microsoft.com>


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James Morris
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