[PATCH v1 3/8] LSM: Identify the process attributes for each module

[Paul Moore]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 2:47 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>
> Add an integer member "features" to the struct lsm_id which
> identifies the API related data associated with each security
> module. The initial set of features maps to information that
> has traditionaly been available in /proc/self/attr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h  |  1 +
>  include/uapi/linux/lsm.h   | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  security/apparmor/lsm.c    |  1 +
>  security/selinux/hooks.c   |  2 ++
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c |  1 +
>  5 files changed, 19 insertions(+)

Everything Greg already said with one additional comment below.

> diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> index dd4b4d95a172..46b2aa6a677e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
> @@ -1608,6 +1608,7 @@ struct security_hook_heads {
>  struct lsm_id {
>         const char      *lsm;           /* Name of the LSM */
>         int             id;             /* LSM ID */
> +       int             features;       /* Set of LSM features */

I understand why you called the field "features", but I worry it is a
bit too generic for 32-bits of flags. Let's make it specific to the
LSM label attributes; how about 'feat_attr', 'sup_attr', or something
along those lines?

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