On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 18:10 +0330, michel m wrote:
> thanks for guidance, but here I am with a question. what should be
> used as object class in avc_has_perm(3) when using it for
> inter-object. is there any sample for inter-object access decision?
> can it be null?
The class value would be the class of the target object.
Example in the kernel:
return avc_has_perm(newsid, sbsec->sid,
SECCLASS_FILESYSTEM,
FILESYSTEM__ASSOCIATE, &ad);
This controls the relationship between a file security context and the
security context of the containing filesystem.
>
> on the other hand, access decision taken by avc_has_perm(), does it
> include MLS too?
>
> regards.
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 16:34 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 00:50 +0330, michel m wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I have some data in userspace that I am keeping its
> security
> > > context.but as I want to write this data on some file in
> OS, I need to
> > > consult with security server if such data is allowed to be
> written on
> > > the file.
> > > I would like to know if there is any API that let me do
> such a
> > > scenario, that is input source and destination security
> context (both
> > > of them security context,not a domain context) and returns
> access
> > > decision. I am familiar with avc_has_perm(3), but seems to
> be not
> > > correct solution because it gets domain context as the
> first argument.
> >
> > avc_has_perm() can be used with any pair of security
> contexts. Typical
> > usage is to pass the security context of a subject/process
> as the first
> > argument, but not always (e.g. there are some permission
> checks that
> > control inter-object relationships), and that is not a
> requirement.
>
>
> Example usage of the userspace AVC can be found in the
> XSELinux
> extension, see:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/Xext/xselinux_hooks.c
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/Xext/xselinuxint.h
>
> The modern usage is to call:
> 1) selinux_set_callback() to set up the callback functions for
> libselinux to use for logging/auditing or to notify the
> application of
> changes to enforcing mode or policy.
> 2) selinux_set_mapping() to set up a dynamic mapping for the
> object
> classes and permissions so that your application does not
> depend on
> fixed values for them in the policy, and
> 3) avc_open() to initialize the AVC.
>
> Then you can proceed to call avc_context_to_sid() and
> avc_has_perm() as
> appropriate.
>
> If you don't need caching, you can directly call
> security_compute_av();
> however this pushes responsibility for checking the particular
> permission bit, checking for and handling permissive
> mode/domains, and
> generating an avc audit message to your application. There
> has been a
> prior request to introduce a simpler interface for programs
> that do not
> require caching, see:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=518268
>
>
> --
> Stephen Smalley
> National Security Agency
>
>
>
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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency
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