linux/security
Eric Paris 06112163f5 Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit to
make an A or B type decision instead of a security decision.  Currently
this is the case at least for filesystems when deciding if a process can use
the reserved 'root' blocks and for the case of things like the oom
algorithm determining if processes are root processes and should be less
likely to be killed.  These types of security system requests should not be
audited or logged since they are not really security decisions.  It would be
possible to solve this problem like the vm_enough_memory security check did
by creating a new LSM interface and moving all of the policy into that
interface but proves the needlessly bloat the LSM and provide complex
indirection.

This merely allows those decisions to be made where they belong and to not
flood logs or printk with denials for thing that are not security decisions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-11 22:02:50 +11:00
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keys keys: remove unused key_alloc_sem 2008-06-06 11:29:11 -07:00
selinux Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit to 2008-11-11 22:02:50 +11:00
smack Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_next into next 2008-10-11 09:26:14 +11:00
capability.c security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
commoncap.c Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit to 2008-11-11 22:02:50 +11:00
device_cgroup.c devcgroup: remove spin_lock() 2008-10-20 08:52:38 -07:00
inode.c integrity: special fs magic 2008-10-13 09:47:43 +11:00
Kconfig securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2008-08-28 10:47:42 +10:00
Makefile securityfs: do not depend on CONFIG_SECURITY 2008-08-28 10:47:42 +10:00
root_plug.c security: Fix setting of PF_SUPERPRIV by __capable() 2008-08-14 22:59:43 +10:00
security.c Add a new capable interface that will be used by systems that use audit to 2008-11-11 22:02:50 +11:00