[PATCH v4 00/19] LSM: Module stacking for SARA and Landlock

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Sat Sep 22 03:02:57 UTC 2018


On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> v4: Finer granularity in the patches and other
>     cleanups suggested by Kees Cook.
>     Removed dead code created by the removal of SELinux
>     credential blob poisoning.

Thanks for the splitting, this really does make it easier to review
(at least for me). I think this looks really good, though obviously
I'd like to refactor it slightly on top of my series. :)

One additional thought I had was about the blobs allocations: some are
separate kmem caches, and some are kmalloc. I'm thinking it might make
sense to use separate kmem caches for two reasons:

- they're going to always be the same size and are regularly
allocated/freed, so it may offer a performance benefit.

- they're explicitly not supposed to be exposed to userspace, so
hardened usercopy would protect them if they were not kmalloc()ed.

I'm excited about getting this landed!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Pixel Security



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