[PATCH v15 02/23] LSM: Create and manage the lsmblob data structure.

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Fri Mar 6 20:55:24 UTC 2020


On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 7:05 PM Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
>
> When more than one security module is exporting data to
> audit and networking sub-systems a single 32 bit integer
> is no longer sufficient to represent the data. Add a
> structure to be used instead.
>
> The lsmblob structure is currently an array of
> u32 "secids". There is an entry for each of the
> security modules built into the system that would
> use secids if active. The system assigns the module
> a "slot" when it registers hooks. If modules are
> compiled in but not registered there will be unused
> slots.
>
> A new lsm_id structure, which contains the name
> of the LSM and its slot number, is created. There
> is an instance for each LSM, which assigns the name
> and passes it to the infrastructure to set the slot.
>
> The audit rules data is expanded to use an array of
> security module data rather than a single instance.
> Because IMA uses the audit rule functions it is
> affected as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/audit.h               |  4 +-
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h           | 12 ++++-
>  include/linux/security.h            | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  kernel/auditfilter.c                | 27 ++++++-----
>  kernel/auditsc.c                    | 12 ++---
>  security/apparmor/lsm.c             |  7 ++-
>  security/commoncap.c                |  7 ++-
>  security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c | 34 +++++++++-----
>  security/loadpin/loadpin.c          |  8 +++-
>  security/lockdown/lockdown.c        |  7 ++-
>  security/safesetid/lsm.c            |  8 +++-
>  security/security.c                 | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  security/selinux/hooks.c            |  8 +++-
>  security/smack/smack_lsm.c          |  7 ++-
>  security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c            |  8 +++-
>  security/yama/yama_lsm.c            |  7 ++-
>  16 files changed, 238 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

Heads-up that there is likely to be some merge fuzz in
kernel/auditfilter.c; I just had to fix some of the code you are
touching (it is in Linus' tree).  The merge should be trivial, but if
you are uncertain let me know.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>

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