David P. Quigley wrote:
Back in August of 2006 Serge posted a patch to this list which generates
a bare minimum policy based on the flask definition headers in the Linux
kernel tree. While I was at OLS someone had mentioned that they wanted
an easy way to generate a bare minimum policy that they could then carve
up as they wanted. I have taken Serge's patch and have updated it to
work with the latest Linux Kernel.
For those interested in the changes there were only two significant
changes. The first is that the iteration through the list of classes
used NULL as a sentinel value. The problem with this is that the
class_to_string array actually has NULL entries in its table as place
holders for the user space object classes.
The second change was that it would seem at some point the initial sids
table was NULL terminated. This is no longer the case so that iteration
has to be done on array length instead of looking for NULL.
Some statistics on the policy that it generates:
The policy consists of 523 lines which contain no blank lines. Of those
523 lines 453 of them are class, permission, and initial sid
definitions. These lines are usually little to no concern to the policy
developer since they will not be adding object classes or permissions.
Of the remaining 70 lines there is one type, one role, and one user
statement. The remaining lines are broken into three portions. The first
group are TE allow rules which make up 29 of the remaining lines, the
second is assignment of labels to the initial sids which consist of 27
lines, and file system labeling statements which are the remaining 11.
In addition to the policy.conf generated there is a single file_contexts
file containing two lines which labels the entire system with base_t.
This policy generates a policy.23 binary that is 7920 bytes.
Dave
Thank you. I noticed that class "capability2" is defined but
never used. Is this intentional?
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