linux/security/selinux
David P. Quigley 1ee65e37e9 LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information.
This patch introduces three new hooks. The inode_getsecctx hook is used to get
all relevant information from an LSM about an inode. The inode_setsecctx is
used to set both the in-core and on-disk state for the inode based on a context
derived from inode_getsecctx.The final hook inode_notifysecctx will notify the
LSM of a change for the in-core state of the inode in question. These hooks are
for use in the labeled NFS code and addresses concerns of how to set security
on an inode in a multi-xattr LSM. For historical reasons Stephen Smalley's
explanation of the reason for these hooks is pasted below.

Quote Stephen Smalley

inode_setsecctx:  Change the security context of an inode.  Updates the
in core security context managed by the security module and invokes the
fs code as needed (via __vfs_setxattr_noperm) to update any backing
xattrs that represent the context.  Example usage:  NFS server invokes
this hook to change the security context in its incore inode and on the
backing file system to a value provided by the client on a SETATTR
operation.

inode_notifysecctx:  Notify the security module of what the security
context of an inode should be.  Initializes the incore security context
managed by the security module for this inode.  Example usage:  NFS
client invokes this hook to initialize the security context in its
incore inode to the value provided by the server for the file when the
server returned the file's attributes to the client.

Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-09-10 10:11:24 +10:00
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include selinux: Support for the new TUN LSM hooks 2009-09-01 08:29:52 +10:00
ss Merge branch 'master' into next 2009-06-19 08:20:55 +10:00
Kconfig selinux: Deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality 2008-12-31 12:54:11 -05:00
Makefile SELinux: Add network port SID cache 2008-04-18 20:26:16 +10:00
avc.c SELinux: Convert avc_audit to use lsm_audit.h 2009-08-17 08:37:18 +10:00
exports.c CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors 2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
hooks.c LSM/SELinux: inode_{get,set,notify}secctx hooks to access LSM security context information. 2009-09-10 10:11:24 +10:00
netif.c SELinux fixups needed for preemptable RCU from -rt 2008-04-22 15:37:23 +10:00
netlabel.c SELinux: Convert avc_audit to use lsm_audit.h 2009-08-17 08:37:18 +10:00
netlink.c SELinux: netlink.c whitespace, syntax, and static declaraction cleanups 2008-04-21 19:05:05 +10:00
netnode.c SELinux: keep the code clean formating and syntax 2008-07-14 15:01:36 +10:00
netport.c SELinux: keep the code clean formating and syntax 2008-07-14 15:01:36 +10:00
nlmsgtab.c SELinux: define audit permissions for audit tree netlink messages 2009-06-03 07:44:53 +10:00
selinuxfs.c selinux: remove obsolete read buffer limit from sel_read_bool 2009-05-19 23:56:11 +10:00
xfrm.c SELinux: Convert avc_audit to use lsm_audit.h 2009-08-17 08:37:18 +10:00