[PATCH v2] security, fs, nfs, net: update security_inode_listsecurity() interface

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Thu Jun 5 18:24:18 UTC 2025


On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM Stephen Smalley
<stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM Stephen Smalley
> > <stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Update the security_inode_listsecurity() interface to allow
> > > use of the xattr_list_one() helper and update the hook
> > > implementations.
> > >
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20250424152822.2719-1-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com/
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > This patch is relative to the one linked above, which in theory is on
> > > vfs.fixes but doesn't appear to have been pushed when I looked.
> > >
> > >  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c             | 10 ++++++----
> > >  fs/xattr.c                    | 19 +++++++------------
> > >  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h |  4 ++--
> > >  include/linux/security.h      |  5 +++--
> > >  net/socket.c                  | 17 +++++++----------
> > >  security/security.c           | 16 ++++++++--------
> > >  security/selinux/hooks.c      | 10 +++-------
> > >  security/smack/smack_lsm.c    | 13 ++++---------
> > >  8 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 54 deletions(-)
> >
> > Thanks Stephen.  Once we get ACKs from the NFS, netdev, and Smack
> > folks I can pull this into the LSM tree.
>
> Note that this will need to have a conflict resolved with:
> https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20250605164852.2016-1-stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com/
>
> Fortunately it should be straightforward - just delete the line added
> by that patch since this patch fixes the security_inode_listsecurity()
> hook interface to return 0 or -errno itself.

Yep, I'm pretty much just waiting on -rc1 right now.

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