linux/include
Serge E. Hallyn 08ce5f16ee cgroups: implement device whitelist
Implement a cgroup to track and enforce open and mknod restrictions on device
files.  A device cgroup associates a device access whitelist with each cgroup.
 A whitelist entry has 4 fields.  'type' is a (all), c (char), or b (block).
'all' means it applies to all types and all major and minor numbers.  Major
and minor are either an integer or * for all.  Access is a composition of r
(read), w (write), and m (mknod).

The root device cgroup starts with rwm to 'all'.  A child devcg gets a copy of
the parent.  Admins can then remove devices from the whitelist or add new
entries.  A child cgroup can never receive a device access which is denied its
parent.  However when a device access is removed from a parent it will not
also be removed from the child(ren).

An entry is added using devices.allow, and removed using
devices.deny.  For instance

	echo 'c 1:3 mr' > /cgroups/1/devices.allow

allows cgroup 1 to read and mknod the device usually known as
/dev/null.  Doing

	echo a > /cgroups/1/devices.deny

will remove the default 'a *:* mrw' entry.

CAP_SYS_ADMIN is needed to change permissions or move another task to a new
cgroup.  A cgroup may not be granted more permissions than the cgroup's parent
has.  Any task can move itself between cgroups.  This won't be sufficient, but
we can decide the best way to adequately restrict movement later.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix may-be-used-uninitialized warning]
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Looks-good-to: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Daniel Hokka Zakrisson <daniel@hozac.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha alpha: teach the compiler that BUG doesn't return 2008-04-28 08:58:27 -07:00
asm-arm mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-avr32 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-blackfin [Blackfin] arch: add include/boot .gitignore files 2008-04-25 08:29:11 +08:00
asm-cris cris: add constfy to pgd_offset() 2008-04-28 08:58:28 -07:00
asm-frv mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-generic gpiochip_reserve() 2008-04-28 08:58:34 -07:00
asm-h8300 Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-ia64 fix ia64 local_irq_save() et.al. 2008-04-28 10:03:31 -07:00
asm-m32r mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68k mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-m68knommu Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2008-04-28 10:51:43 -07:00
asm-mn10300 mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-parisc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-powerpc proper __do_softirq() prototype 2008-04-29 08:06:02 -07:00
asm-ppc mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-s390 s390: implement pte special bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-sh hugetlbfs: common code update for s390 2008-04-28 08:58:25 -07:00
asm-sparc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00
asm-sparc64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2008-04-28 09:45:57 -07:00
asm-um mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
asm-v850 Generic semaphore implementation 2008-04-17 10:42:34 -04:00
asm-x86 x86: olpc: add One Laptop Per Child architecture support 2008-04-29 08:06:07 -07:00
asm-xtensa mm: introduce pte_special pte bit 2008-04-28 08:58:23 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] aes: Export generic setkey 2008-04-21 10:19:34 +08:00
keys KEYS: Fix the comment to match the file name in rxrpc-type.h. 2008-04-21 22:43:55 +00:00
linux cgroups: implement device whitelist 2008-04-29 08:06:09 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (7677): saa7134: Add/fix Beholder entries 2008-04-24 14:09:46 -03:00
mtd UBI: make ubi-header.h local 2008-04-17 11:31:58 +03:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-04-28 09:44:11 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma IB: convert struct class_device to struct device 2008-04-19 19:10:30 -07:00
rxrpc
scsi [SCSI] rework scsi_target allocation 2008-04-22 15:16:31 -05:00
sound [ALSA] Define MPU401 registers in sound/mpu401_uart.h 2008-04-24 12:38:22 +02:00
video fbdev: platforming hecubafb and n411 2008-04-28 08:58:41 -07:00
xen xen: add balloon driver 2008-04-24 23:57:33 +02:00
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