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* Complete break-out of sys/sys/mac.h into sys/security/mac/mac_framework.hrwatson2006-10-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | begun with a repo-copy of mac.h to mac_framework.h. sys/mac.h now contains the userspace and user<->kernel API and definitions, with all in-kernel interfaces moved to mac_framework.h, which is now included across most of the kernel instead. This change is the first step in a larger cleanup and sweep of MAC Framework interfaces in the kernel, and will not be MFC'd. Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project Sponsored by: SPARTA
* In the MAC label zone destructor, assert that the label is onlyrwatson2004-10-221-1/+3
| | | | destroyed in an initialized state.
* * Add a "how" argument to uma_zone constructors and initialization functionsgreen2004-08-021-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | so that they know whether the allocation is supposed to be able to sleep or not. * Allow uma_zone constructors and initialation functions to return either success or error. Almost all of the ones in the tree currently return success unconditionally, but mbuf is a notable exception: the packet zone constructor wants to be able to fail if it cannot suballocate an mbuf cluster, and the mbuf allocators want to be able to fail in general in a MAC kernel if the MAC mbuf initializer fails. This fixes the panics people are seeing when they run out of memory for mbuf clusters. * Allow debug.nosleepwithlocks on WITNESS to be disabled, without changing the default. Both bmilekic and jeff have reviewed the changes made to make failable zone allocations work.
* Modify the MAC Framework so that instead of embedding a (struct label)rwatson2003-11-121-0/+97
in various kernel objects to represent security data, we embed a (struct label *) pointer, which now references labels allocated using a UMA zone (mac_label.c). This allows the size and shape of struct label to be varied without changing the size and shape of these kernel objects, which become part of the frozen ABI with 5-STABLE. This opens the door for boot-time selection of the number of label slots, and hence changes to the bound on the number of simultaneous labeled policies at boot-time instead of compile-time. This also makes it easier to embed label references in new objects as required for locking/caching with fine-grained network stack locking, such as inpcb structures. This change also moves us further in the direction of hiding the structure of kernel objects from MAC policy modules, not to mention dramatically reducing the number of '&' symbols appearing in both the MAC Framework and MAC policy modules, and improving readability. While this results in minimal performance change with MAC enabled, it will observably shrink the size of a number of critical kernel data structures for the !MAC case, and should have a small (but measurable) performance benefit (i.e., struct vnode, struct socket) do to memory conservation and reduced cost of zeroing memory. NOTE: Users of MAC must recompile their kernel and all MAC modules as a result of this change. Because this is an API change, third party MAC modules will also need to be updated to make less use of the '&' symbol. Suggestions from: bmilekic Obtained from: TrustedBSD Project Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
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