Messages in this thread | | | From | Kees Cook <> | Date | Thu, 21 Mar 2019 09:36:09 -0700 | Subject | Re: what happened to SECURITY_DAC? |
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 5:39 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote: > > wow. Commit 70b62c25665f636c9f6c700b26af7df296b0887e > from last Sept. 14, 2018, total commit description says: > > LoadPin: Initialize as ordered LSM > > This converts LoadPin from being a direct "minor" LSM into an ordered LSM. > > Nowhere does it say anything like "this also deletes any notions of > DEFAULT_SECURITY and DAC."
This was a mistaken merge of chunks from a larger series that Casey and I were working on. It should have been split out.
> Was this deletion a (sekrit) security issue that was not being highlighted on purpose?
No, just an error while refactoring to in creating CONFIG_LSM.
> and what do you recommend for simple DAC-like security?
See CONFIG_LSM. There are some related issues getting discussed here, too: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-security-module/f23d0fad-dc72-0e53-cac6-31abfd12a050@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp/
-- Kees Cook
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