Casey Schaufler 7898e1f8e9 Subject: [PATCH] Smack: mmap controls for library containment ... In the embedded world there are often situations where libraries are updated from a variety of sources, for a variety of reasons, and with any number of security characteristics. These differences might include privilege required for a given library provided interface to function properly, as occurs from time to time in graphics libraries. There are also cases where it is important to limit use of libraries based on the provider of the library and the security aware application may make choices based on that criteria. These issues are addressed by providing an additional Smack label that may optionally be assigned to an object, the SMACK64MMAP attribute. An mmap operation is allowed if there is no such attribute. If there is a SMACK64MMAP attribute the mmap is permitted only if a subject with that label has all of the access permitted a subject with the current task label. Security aware applications may from time to time wish to reduce their "privilege" to avoid accidental use of privilege. One case where this arises is the environment in which multiple sources provide libraries to perform the same functions. An application may know that it should eschew services made available from a particular vendor, or of a particular version. In support of this a secondary list of Smack rules has been added that is local to the task. This list is consulted only in the case where the global list has approved access. It can only further restrict access. Unlike the global last, if no entry is found on the local list access is granted. An application can add entries to its own list by writing to /smack/load-self. The changes appear large as they involve refactoring the list handling to accomodate there being more than one rule list. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>		2011-01-17 08:05:27 -08:00
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Kconfig	Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel	2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
Makefile	Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel	2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
smack_access.c	Subject: [PATCH] Smack: mmap controls for library containment	2011-01-17 08:05:27 -08:00
smack_lsm.c	Subject: [PATCH] Smack: mmap controls for library containment	2011-01-17 08:05:27 -08:00
smack.h	Subject: [PATCH] Smack: mmap controls for library containment	2011-01-17 08:05:27 -08:00
smackfs.c	Subject: [PATCH] Smack: mmap controls for library containment	2011-01-17 08:05:27 -08:00