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authorKaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>2008-08-28 16:35:57 +0900
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2008-08-29 00:33:33 +1000
commitd9250dea3f89fe808a525f08888016b495240ed4 (patch)
treec4b039ce0b29714e8f4c3bbc6d407adc361cc122 /security/selinux/include/avc.h
parentda31894ed7b654e2e1741e7ac4ef6c15be0dd14b (diff)
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SELinux: add boundary support and thread context assignment
The purpose of this patch is to assign per-thread security context under a constraint. It enables multi-threaded server application to kick a request handler with its fair security context, and helps some of userspace object managers to handle user's request. When we assign a per-thread security context, it must not have wider permissions than the original one. Because a multi-threaded process shares a single local memory, an arbitary per-thread security context also means another thread can easily refer violated information. The constraint on a per-thread security context requires a new domain has to be equal or weaker than its original one, when it tries to assign a per-thread security context. Bounds relationship between two types is a way to ensure a domain can never have wider permission than its bounds. We can define it in two explicit or implicit ways. The first way is using new TYPEBOUNDS statement. It enables to define a boundary of types explicitly. The other one expand the concept of existing named based hierarchy. If we defines a type with "." separated name like "httpd_t.php", toolchain implicitly set its bounds on "httpd_t". This feature requires a new policy version. The 24th version (POLICYDB_VERSION_BOUNDARY) enables to ship them into kernel space, and the following patch enables to handle it. Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security/selinux/include/avc.h')
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diff --git a/security/selinux/include/avc.h b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
index 7b9769f..d12ff1a 100644
--- a/security/selinux/include/avc.h
+++ b/security/selinux/include/avc.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/kdev_t.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/audit.h>
#include <linux/in6.h>
#include <linux/path.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
@@ -126,6 +127,9 @@ int avc_add_callback(int (*callback)(u32 event, u32 ssid, u32 tsid,
u32 events, u32 ssid, u32 tsid,
u16 tclass, u32 perms);
+/* Shows permission in human readable form */
+void avc_dump_av(struct audit_buffer *ab, u16 tclass, u32 av);
+
/* Exported to selinuxfs */
int avc_get_hash_stats(char *page);
extern unsigned int avc_cache_threshold;
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