Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2] | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:58:48 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 14:06 +0000, David Howells wrote: > David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Okay... It looks like I want four security operations/hooks for cachefiles: > > FYI, I added the following vectors: > > # kernel services that need to override task security > class kernel_service > { > use_as_override > create_files_as > } > > The first allows: > > avc_has_perm(daemon_tsec->sid, nominated_sid, > SECCLASS_KERNEL_SERVICE, > KERNEL_SERVICE__USE_AS_OVERRIDE, > NULL); > > And the second something like: > > avc_has_perm(tsec->sid, inode->sid, > SECCLASS_KERNEL_SERVICE, > KERNEL_SERVICE__CREATE_FILES_AS, > NULL); > > Rather than specifically dedicating them to the cache, I made them general.
Make sure that you or Dan submits a policy patch to register these classes and permissions in the policy when the kernel patch is queued for merge.
-- Stephen Smalley National Security Agency
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