[RFC PATCH 20/29] smack: move initcalls to the LSM framework

Casey Schaufler casey at schaufler-ca.com
Thu Apr 10 17:47:50 UTC 2025


On 4/10/2025 10:30 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 4/9/2025 11:50 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>> As the LSM framework only supports one LSM initcall callback for each
>> initcall type, the init_smk_fs() and smack_nf_ip_init() functions were
>> wrapped with a new function, smack_initcall() that is registered with
>> the LSM framework.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
>> ---
>>  security/smack/smack.h           |  6 ++++++
>>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c       | 16 ++++++++++++++++
>>  security/smack/smack_netfilter.c |  4 +---
>>  security/smack/smackfs.c         |  4 +---
>>  4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/security/smack/smack.h b/security/smack/smack.h
>> index bf6a6ed3946c..709e0d6cd5e1 100644
>> --- a/security/smack/smack.h
>> +++ b/security/smack/smack.h
>> @@ -275,6 +275,12 @@ struct smk_audit_info {
>>  #endif
>>  };
>>  
>> +/*
>> + * Initialization
>> + */
>> +int init_smk_fs(void);
>> +int smack_nf_ip_init(void);
>> +
>>  /*
>>   * These functions are in smack_access.c
>>   */
>> diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
>> index e09b33fed5f0..80b129a0c92c 100644
>> --- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
>> +++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
>> @@ -5277,6 +5277,21 @@ static __init int smack_init(void)
>>  	return 0;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static int smack_initcall(void)
>> +{
>> +	int rc, rc_tmp;
> separate lines for the declarations please.
>
>> +
>> +	rc_tmp = init_smk_fs();
>> +	if (rc_tmp)
>> +		rc = rc_tmp;
> Replace these three lines with:
>
>  +	rc = init_smk_fs();
>
>> +
>> +	rc_tmp = smack_nf_ip_init();
>> +	if (!rc && rc_tmp)
>> +		rc = rc_tmp;
> Change this to
>
>  +	rc_tmp = smack_nf_ip_init();
>  +	return rc ? rc : rc_tmp;
>
> Also change rc_tmp to rc_nf and rc to rc_fs.
>
>> +
>> +	return rc;
>> +}
>> +
> Or:
>
> static int smack_initcall(void)
> {
> 	int rc_fs = init_smk_fs();
> 	int rc_nf = smack_nf_ip_init();
>
> 	return rc_fs ? rc_fs : rc:nf;

Whoops - return rc_fs ? rc_fs : rc_nf;

> }
>
>>  /*
>>   * Smack requires early initialization in order to label
>>   * all processes and objects when they are created.
>> @@ -5286,4 +5301,5 @@ DEFINE_LSM(smack) = {
>>  	.flags = LSM_FLAG_LEGACY_MAJOR | LSM_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE,
>>  	.blobs = &smack_blob_sizes,
>>  	.init = smack_init,
>> +	.initcall_device = smack_initcall,
>>  };
>> diff --git a/security/smack/smack_netfilter.c b/security/smack/smack_netfilter.c
>> index 8fd747b3653a..17ba578b1308 100644
>> --- a/security/smack/smack_netfilter.c
>> +++ b/security/smack/smack_netfilter.c
>> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static struct pernet_operations smack_net_ops = {
>>  	.exit = smack_nf_unregister,
>>  };
>>  
>> -static int __init smack_nf_ip_init(void)
>> +int __init smack_nf_ip_init(void)
>>  {
>>  	if (smack_enabled == 0)
>>  		return 0;
>> @@ -76,5 +76,3 @@ static int __init smack_nf_ip_init(void)
>>  	printk(KERN_DEBUG "Smack: Registering netfilter hooks\n");
>>  	return register_pernet_subsys(&smack_net_ops);
>>  }
>> -
>> -__initcall(smack_nf_ip_init);
>> diff --git a/security/smack/smackfs.c b/security/smack/smackfs.c
>> index 90a67e410808..d33dd0368807 100644
>> --- a/security/smack/smackfs.c
>> +++ b/security/smack/smackfs.c
>> @@ -2980,7 +2980,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *smackfs_mount;
>>   * Returns true if we were not chosen on boot or if
>>   * we were chosen and filesystem registration succeeded.
>>   */
>> -static int __init init_smk_fs(void)
>> +int __init init_smk_fs(void)
>>  {
>>  	int err;
>>  	int rc;
>> @@ -3023,5 +3023,3 @@ static int __init init_smk_fs(void)
>>  
>>  	return err;
>>  }
>> -
>> -__initcall(init_smk_fs);



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