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Davidlohr Bueso
3ac285ff23 selinux: return -ENOMEM when memory allocation fails
Return -ENOMEM when memory allocation fails in cond_init_bool_indexes,
correctly propagating error code to caller.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-01-24 11:35:47 +11:00
Eric Paris
1d9bc6dc5b SELinux: merge policydb_index_classes and policydb_index_others
We duplicate functionality in policydb_index_classes() and
policydb_index_others().  This patch merges those functions just to make it
clear there is nothing special happening here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 17:28:58 -05:00
Eric Paris
ac76c05bec selinux: convert part of the sym_val_to_name array to use flex_array
The sym_val_to_name type array can be quite large as it grows linearly with
the number of types.  With known policies having over 5k types these
allocations are growing large enough that they are likely to fail.  Convert
those to flex_array so no allocation is larger than PAGE_SIZE

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 17:28:58 -05:00
Eric Paris
23bdecb000 selinux: convert type_val_to_struct to flex_array
In rawhide type_val_to_struct will allocate 26848 bytes, an order 3
allocations.  While this hasn't been seen to fail it isn't outside the
realm of possibiliy on systems with severe memory fragmentation.  Convert
to flex_array so no allocation will ever be bigger than PAGE_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 17:28:57 -05:00
Eric Paris
9398c7f794 SELinux: standardize return code handling in policydb.c
policydb.c has lots of different standards on how to handle return paths on
error.  For the most part transition to

	rc=errno
	if (failure)
		goto out;
[...]
out:
	cleanup()
	return rc;

Instead of doing cleanup mid function, or having multiple returns or other
options.  This doesn't do that for every function, but most of the complex
functions which have cleanup routines on error.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-11-30 17:28:56 -05:00
Eric Paris
cee74f47a6 SELinux: allow userspace to read policy back out of the kernel
There is interest in being able to see what the actual policy is that was
loaded into the kernel.  The patch creates a new selinuxfs file
/selinux/policy which can be read by userspace.  The actual policy that is
loaded into the kernel will be written back out to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-10-21 10:12:58 +11:00
Eric Paris
4419aae1f4 SELinux: deterministic ordering of range transition rules
Range transition rules are placed in the hash table in an (almost)
arbitrary order.  This patch inserts them in a fixed order to make policy
retrival more predictable.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-10-21 10:12:56 +11:00
Eric Paris
daa6d83a28 selinux: type_bounds_sanity_check has a meaningless variable declaration
type is not used at all, stop declaring and assigning it.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-10-21 10:12:33 +11:00
Eric Paris
6371dcd36f selinux: convert the policy type_attr_map to flex_array
Current selinux policy can have over 3000 types.  The type_attr_map in
policy is an array sized by the number of types times sizeof(struct ebitmap)
(12 on x86_64).  Basic math tells us the array is going to be of length
3000 x 12 = 36,000 bytes.  The largest 'safe' allocation on a long running
system is 16k.  Most of the time a 32k allocation will work.  But on long
running systems a 64k allocation (what we need) can fail quite regularly.
In order to deal with this I am converting the type_attr_map to use
flex_arrays.  Let the library code deal with breaking this into PAGE_SIZE
pieces.

-v2
rework some of the if(!obj) BUG() to be BUG_ON(!obj)
drop flex_array_put() calls and just use a _get() object directly

-v3
make apply to James' tree (drop the policydb_write changes)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:38:39 +10:00
Eric Paris
692a8a231b SELinux: break ocontext reading into a separate function
Move the reading of ocontext type data out of policydb_read() in a separate
function ocontext_read()

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:35:06 +10:00
Eric Paris
d1b43547e5 SELinux: move genfs read to a separate function
move genfs read functionality out of policydb_read() and into a new
function called genfs_read()

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:35:05 +10:00
Eric Paris
9ee0c823c1 SELinux: seperate range transition rules to a seperate function
Move the range transition rule to a separate function, range_read(), rather
than doing it all in policydb_read()

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-08-02 15:34:30 +10:00
Julia Lawall
b3139bbc52 security/selinux/ss: Use kstrdup
Use kstrdup when the goal of an allocation is copy a string into the
allocated region.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression from,to;
expression flag,E1,E2;
statement S;
@@

-  to = kmalloc(strlen(from) + 1,flag);
+  to = kstrdup(from, flag);
   ... when != \(from = E1 \| to = E1 \)
   if (to==NULL || ...) S
   ... when != \(from = E2 \| to = E2 \)
-  strcpy(to, from);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-05-17 09:00:27 +10:00
wzt.wzt@gmail.com
c1a7368a6f Security: Fix coding style in security/
Fix coding style in security/

Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-04-09 15:13:48 +10:00
James Morris
c43a752347 Merge branch 'next-queue' into next 2010-03-09 12:46:47 +11:00
Stephen Hemminger
634a539e16 selinux: const strings in tables
Several places strings tables are used that should be declared
const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-03-08 09:33:53 +11:00
Guido Trentalancia
0719aaf5ea selinux: allow MLS->non-MLS and vice versa upon policy reload
Allow runtime switching between different policy types (e.g. from a MLS/MCS
policy to a non-MLS/non-MCS policy or viceversa).

Signed-off-by: Guido Trentalancia <guido@trentalancia.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-02-04 09:06:36 +11:00
Stephen Smalley
2f3e82d694 selinux: convert range transition list to a hashtab
Per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=548145
there are sufficient range transition rules in modern (Fedora) policy to
make mls_compute_sid a significant factor on the shmem file setup path
due to the length of the range_tr list.  Replace the simple range_tr
list with a hashtab inside the security server to help mitigate this
problem.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen D. Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2010-01-25 08:29:05 +11:00
Stephen Smalley
c6d3aaa4e3 selinux: dynamic class/perm discovery
Modify SELinux to dynamically discover class and permission values
upon policy load, based on the dynamic object class/perm discovery
logic from libselinux.  A mapping is created between kernel-private
class and permission indices used outside the security server and the
policy values used within the security server.

The mappings are only applied upon kernel-internal computations;
similar mappings for the private indices of userspace object managers
is handled on a per-object manager basis by the userspace AVC.  The
interfaces for compute_av and transition_sid are split for kernel
vs. userspace; the userspace functions are distinguished by a _user
suffix.

The kernel-private class indices are no longer tied to the policy
values and thus do not need to skip indices for userspace classes;
thus the kernel class index values are compressed.  The flask.h
definitions were regenerated by deleting the userspace classes from
refpolicy's definitions and then regenerating the headers.  Going
forward, we can just maintain the flask.h, av_permissions.h, and
classmap.h definitions separately from policy as they are no longer
tied to the policy values.  The next patch introduces a utility to
automate generation of flask.h and av_permissions.h from the
classmap.h definitions.

The older kernel class and permission string tables are removed and
replaced by a single security class mapping table that is walked at
policy load to generate the mapping.  The old kernel class validation
logic is completely replaced by the mapping logic.

The handle unknown logic is reworked.  reject_unknown=1 is handled
when the mappings are computed at policy load time, similar to the old
handling by the class validation logic.  allow_unknown=1 is handled
when computing and mapping decisions - if the permission was not able
to be mapped (i.e. undefined, mapped to zero), then it is
automatically added to the allowed vector.  If the class was not able
to be mapped (i.e. undefined, mapped to zero), then all permissions
are allowed for it if allow_unknown=1.

avc_audit leverages the new security class mapping table to lookup the
class and permission names from the kernel-private indices.

The mdp program is updated to use the new table when generating the
class definitions and allow rules for a minimal boot policy for the
kernel.  It should be noted that this policy will not include any
userspace classes, nor will its policy index values for the kernel
classes correspond with the ones in refpolicy (they will instead match
the kernel-private indices).

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2009-10-07 21:56:42 +11:00
KaiGai Kohei
d9250dea3f 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>
2008-08-29 00:33:33 +10:00
Vesa-Matti J Kari
df4ea865f0 SELinux: Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style
Trivial minor fixes that change C null character style.

Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-08-05 10:55:30 +10:00
Stephen Smalley
59dbd1ba98 selinux: fix endianness bug in network node address handling
Fix an endianness bug in the handling of network node addresses by
SELinux.  This yields no change on little endian hardware but fixes
the incorrect handling on big endian hardware.  The network node
addresses are stored in network order in memory by checkpolicy, not in
cpu/host order, and thus should not have cpu_to_le32/le32_to_cpu
conversions applied upon policy write/read unlike other data in the
policy.

Bug reported by John Weeks of Sun, who noticed that binary policy
files built from the same policy source on x86 and sparc differed and
tracked it down to the ipv4 address handling in checkpolicy.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-07-14 15:01:54 +10:00
Eric Paris
2ced3dfd31 changing whitespace for fun and profit: policydb.c
More formatting changes.  Aside from the 80 character line limit even
the checkpatch scripts like this file now.  Too bad I don't get paid by
the lines of code I change.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-04-21 19:11:58 +10:00
Eric Paris
744ba35e45 SELinux: clean up printks
Make sure all printk start with KERN_*
Make sure all printk end with \n
Make sure all printk have the word 'selinux' in them
Change "function name" to "%s", __func__ (found 2 wrong)

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-04-21 19:09:26 +10:00
Eric Paris
64dbf07474 selinux: introduce permissive types
Introduce the concept of a permissive type.  A new ebitmap is introduced to
the policy database which indicates if a given type has the permissive bit
set or not.  This bit is tested for the scontext of any denial.  The bit is
meaningless on types which only appear as the target of a decision and never
the source.  A domain running with a permissive type will be allowed to
perform any action similarly to when the system is globally set permissive.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-04-18 20:26:11 +10:00
James Morris
454d972c24 SELinux: unify printk messages
Replace "security:" prefixes in printk messages with "SELinux"
to help users identify the source of the messages.  Also fix a
couple of minor formatting issues.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-04-18 20:26:05 +10:00
Paul Moore
3bb56b25db SELinux: Add a capabilities bitmap to SELinux policy version 22
Add a new policy capabilities bitmap to SELinux policy version 22.  This bitmap
will enable the security server to query the policy to determine which features
it supports.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-01-30 08:17:23 +11:00
Stephen Smalley
45e5421eb5 SELinux: add more validity checks on policy load
Add more validity checks at policy load time to reject malformed
policies and prevent subsequent out-of-range indexing when in permissive
mode.  Resolves the NULL pointer dereference reported in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=357541.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-11-08 08:56:23 +11:00
Eric Paris
3f12070e27 SELinux: policy selectable handling of unknown classes and perms
Allow policy to select, in much the same way as it selects MLS support, how
the kernel should handle access decisions which contain either unknown
classes or unknown permissions in known classes.  The three choices for the
policy flags are

0 - Deny unknown security access. (default)
2 - reject loading policy if it does not contain all definitions
4 - allow unknown security access

The policy's choice is exported through 2 booleans in
selinuxfs.  /selinux/deny_unknown and /selinux/reject_unknown.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-10-17 08:59:33 +10:00
Yuichi Nakamura
3232c110b5 SELinux: tune avtab to reduce memory usage
This patch reduces memory usage of SELinux by tuning avtab. Number of hash
slots in avtab was 32768. Unused slots used memory when number of rules is
fewer. This patch decides number of hash slots dynamically based on number
of rules. (chain length)^2 is also printed out in avtab_hash_eval to see
standard deviation of avtab hash table.

Signed-off-by: Yuichi Nakamura<ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-10-17 08:59:30 +10:00
Eric Paris
9dc9978084 selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy()
During the LSPP testing we found that it was possible for
policydb_destroy() to take 10+ seconds of kernel time to complete.
Basically all policydb_destroy() does is walk some (possibly long) lists
and free the memory it finds.  Turning off slab debugging config options
made the problem go away since the actual functions which took most of
the time were (as seen by oprofile)

> 121202   23.9879  .check_poison_obj
> 78247    15.4864  .check_slabp

were caused by that.  So I decided to also add some voluntary schedule
points in that code so config voluntary preempt would be enough to solve
the problem.  Something similar was done in places like
shmem_free_pages() when we have to walk a list of memory and free it.
This was tested by the LSPP group on the hardware which could reproduce
the problem just loading a new policy and was found to not trigger the
softlock detector.  It takes just as much processing time, but the
kernel doesn't spend all that time stuck doing one thing and never
scheduling.

Someday a better way to handle memory might make the time needed in this
function a lot less, but this fixes the current issue as it stands
today.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11 22:52:23 -04:00
Eric Paris
fadcdb4516 Reassign printk levels in selinux kernel code
Below is a patch which demotes many printk lines to KERN_DEBUG from
KERN_INFO.  It should help stop the spamming of logs with messages in
which users are not interested nor is there any action that users should
take.  It also promotes some KERN_INFO to KERN_ERR such as when there
are improper attempts to register/unregister security modules.

A similar patch was discussed a while back on list:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=116656343500003&r=1&w=2
This patch addresses almost all of the issues raised.  I believe the
only advice not taken was in the demoting of messages related to
undefined permissions and classes.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

 security/selinux/hooks.c       |   20 ++++++++++----------
 security/selinux/ss/avtab.c    |    2 +-
 security/selinux/ss/policydb.c |    6 +++---
 security/selinux/ss/sidtab.c   |    2 +-
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-02-26 14:43:07 -05:00
James Morris
6cbda6b6e2 Rename class_destroy to avoid namespace conflicts.
We're seeing increasing namespace conflicts between the global
class_destroy() function declared in linux/device.h, and the private
function in the SELinux core code.  This patch renames the SELinux
function to cls_destroy() to avoid this conflict.

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-12-02 21:31:39 -08:00
Chad Sellers
6e8c751e07 SELinux: Bug fix in polidydb_destroy
This patch fixes two bugs in policydb_destroy. Two list pointers
(policydb.ocontexts[i] and policydb.genfs) were not being reset to NULL when
the lists they pointed to were being freed. This caused a problem when the
initial policy load failed, as the policydb being destroyed was not a
temporary new policydb that was thrown away, but rather was the global
(active) policydb. Consequently, later functions, particularly
sys_bind->selinux_socket_bind->security_node_sid and
do_rw_proc->selinux_sysctl->selinux_proc_get_sid->security_genfs_sid tried
to dereference memory that had previously been freed.

Signed-off-by: Chad Sellers <csellers@tresys.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-10-11 23:59:41 -07:00
Darrel Goeddel
f3f8771420 [PATCH] selinux: add support for range transitions on object classes
Introduces support for policy version 21.  This version of the binary
kernel policy allows for defining range transitions on security classes
other than the process security class.  As always, backwards compatibility
for older formats is retained.  The security class is read in as specified
when using the new format, while the "process" security class is assumed
when using an older policy format.

Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 08:48:52 -07:00
Darrel Goeddel
ddccef3b5e [PATCH] selinux: fix memory leak
This patch fixes a memory leak when a policydb structure is destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-31 13:28:37 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
32725ad843 [PATCH] selinux: more ARRAY_SIZE cleanups
Further ARRAY_SIZE cleanups under security/selinux.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:29 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
a7f988ba30 [PATCH] kfree cleanup: security
This is the security/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch.

Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in security/.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:54:06 -08:00
James Morris
89d155ef62 [PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzalloc
This patch converts SELinux code from kmalloc/memset to the new kazalloc
unction.  On i386, this results in a text saving of over 1K.

Before:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
86319    4642   15236  106197   19ed5 security/selinux/built-in.o

After:
text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
85278    4642   15236  105156   19ac4 security/selinux/built-in.o

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:11 -08:00
Stephen Smalley
282c1f5eba [PATCH] selinux: Fix NULL deref in policydb_destroy
This patch fixes a possible NULL dereference in policydb_destroy, where
p->type_attr_map can be NULL if policydb_destroy is called to clean up a
partially loaded policy upon an error during policy load.  Please apply.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-23 16:38:38 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
b5bf6c55ed [PATCH] selinux: endian notations
This patch adds endian notations to the SELinux code.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:51 -07:00
Stephen Smalley
782ebb992e [PATCH] selinux: Reduce memory use by avtab
This patch improves memory use by SELinux by both reducing the avtab node
size and reducing the number of avtab nodes.  The memory savings are
substantial, e.g.  on a 64-bit system after boot, James Morris reported the
following data for the targeted and strict policies:

            #objs  objsize   kernmem
Targeted:
  Before:  237888       40     9.1MB
  After:    19968       24     468KB

Strict:
  Before:  571680       40   21.81MB
  After:   221052       24    5.06MB

The improvement in memory use comes at a cost in the speed of security
server computations of access vectors, but these computations are only
required on AVC cache misses, and performance measurements by James Morris
using a number of benchmarks have shown that the change does not cause any
significant degradation.

Note that a rebuilt policy via an updated policy toolchain
(libsepol/checkpolicy) is required in order to gain the full benefits of
this patch, although some memory savings benefits are immediately applied
even to older policies (in particular, the reduction in avtab node size).
Sources for the updated toolchain are presently available from the
sourceforge CVS tree (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21266), and
tarballs are available from http://www.flux.utah.edu/~sds.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:50 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
9a5f04bf79 [PATCH] selinux: kfree cleanup
kfree(NULL) is legal.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00