On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 20:49 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Mimi Zohar wrote:
> > Make the security extended attributes names global.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/capability.h | 3 ---
> > include/linux/xattr.h | 10 ++++++++++
> > security/selinux/hooks.c | 3 ---
> > security/smack/smack.h | 2 --
> > 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/capability.h b/include/linux/capability.h
> > index 39e5ff5..90012b9 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/capability.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/capability.h
> > @@ -49,9 +49,6 @@ typedef struct __user_cap_data_struct {
> > } __user *cap_user_data_t;
> >
> >
> > -#define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability"
> > -#define XATTR_NAME_CAPS XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX
> > -
> > #define VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK 0xFF000000
> > #define VFS_CAP_REVISION_SHIFT 24
> > #define VFS_CAP_FLAGS_MASK ~VFS_CAP_REVISION_MASK
> > diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
> > index 0cfa1e9..62ca853 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/xattr.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
> > @@ -33,6 +33,16 @@
> > #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX "user."
> > #define XATTR_USER_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof (XATTR_USER_PREFIX) - 1)
> >
> > +/* Security namespace */
> > +#define XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX "selinux"
> > +#define XATTR_NAME_SELINUX XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX
> > +
> > +#define XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX "SMACK64"
> > +#define XATTR_NAME_SMACK XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX
> > +
> > +#define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability"
> > +#define XATTR_NAME_CAPS XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX
> > +
> > struct inode;
> > struct dentry;
> >
> > diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > index 0f524b7..85338f0 100644
> > --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> > @@ -87,9 +87,6 @@
> > #include "netlabel.h"
> > #include "audit.h"
> >
> > -#define XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX "selinux"
> > -#define XATTR_NAME_SELINUX XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SELINUX_SUFFIX
> > -
> > #define NUM_SEL_MNT_OPTS 5
> >
> > extern int selinux_nlmsg_lookup(u16 sclass, u16 nlmsg_type, u32 *perm);
> > diff --git a/security/smack/smack.h b/security/smack/smack.h
> > index c6e9aca..9c773e3 100644
> > --- a/security/smack/smack.h
> > +++ b/security/smack/smack.h
> > @@ -126,10 +126,8 @@ struct smack_known {
> > /*
> > * xattr names
> > */
> > -#define XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX "SMACK64"
> > #define XATTR_SMACK_IPIN "SMACK64IPIN"
> > #define XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT "SMACK64IPOUT"
> > -#define XATTR_NAME_SMACK XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX
> > #define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPIN XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPIN
> > #define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPOUT XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT
> >
>
> Why just the SMACK64 attribute name, and not the others? They are
> manipulated with the same interfaces (well, fsetxattr, fgetxattr)
> as the SMACK64 attribute. There isn't any conceptual difference and
> the rationale for moving attribute names really ought to apply to
> them as well.
Hi Casey,
Moving the other SMACK xattrs is fine, but are they used on persistent
files and need to be EVM protected?
Mimi
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