Re: [PATCH 4/5] Make LSM Writable Hooks a command line option

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On 06/06/17 17:36, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Igor Stoppa wrote:
>> For the case at hand, would it work if there was a non-API call that you
>> could use until the API is properly expanded?
> 
> Kernel command line switching (i.e. this patch) is fine for my use cases.
> 
> SELinux folks might want
> 
> -static int security_debug;
> +static int security_debug = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE);

ok, thanks, I will add this

> so that those who are using SELINUX=disabled in /etc/selinux/config won't
> get oops upon boot by default. If "unlock the pool" were available,
> SELINUX=enforcing users would be happy. Maybe two modes for rw/ro transition helps.
> 
>   oneway rw -> ro transition mode: can't be made rw again by calling "unlock the pool" API
>   twoway rw <-> ro transition mode: can be made rw again by calling "unlock the pool" API

This was in the first cut of the API, but I was told that it would
require further rework, to make it ok for upstream, so we agreed to do
first the lockdown/destroy only part and the the rewrite.

Is there really a valid use case for unloading SE Linux?
Or any other security module.

--
igor

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