Re: [patch 2/3] lsm: add bsdjail module

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 20:23:18 EST


On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 06:09:28PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
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> >> selinux: user_u:user_r:user_t
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> > This is exactly what my current stacker does, to the byte :-)
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> This is all nice and good, but you have to bring this up with the
> SELinux people _now_ since, as I said before, the current
> SELinux-enabled userland code might not even start with this change of
> the format even if SELinux is not enabled. If it is decided that
> /proc/*/attr/current does not belong to SELinux alone, then the guys
> should be told about it now so that all the relevant code (libselinux,
> kernel without your "stacker" stuff, ...) can be changed before the
> current use spreads too far.

Then they would have to check for an optional "selinux: " at the front
of each security_setprocattr entry read in the kernel, in order to handle
an lsm infrastructure change which might never be accepted into the kernel
anyway. I suppose it's pretty trivial anyway, but then why would they
bother...

-serge
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