RE: [PATCH 0/3 v3] libsepol, policycoreutils, and checkpolicy: Add support for generating CIL to libsepol and checkpolicy

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Selinux [mailto:selinux-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James
>Carter
>Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 1:18 PM
>To: selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PATCH 0/3 v3] libsepol, policycoreutils, and checkpolicy: Add
>support for generating CIL to libsepol and checkpolicy
>
>V3 fixes another whitespace issue.
>V2 fixes some whitespace issues and make the new libsepol file LGPL
>instead of GPL.
>
>This patch set moves the code to generate CIL from pp.c in
>policycoreutils/hll/pp to libsepol, adds a new function to generate CIL from
>a module policydb, and modifies checkpolicy and checkmodule to support
>generating CIL as their output.
>
>The primary motivation of this work is to allow SE for Android to use the
>CIl compiler. Converting the policy.conf to CIL and then compiling to the
>kernel binary policy results in a policy that is about 20% smaller. The
>smaller size is because type expressions with negations are converted to
>type attribute sets in CIL instead of being expanded.
>
>James Carter (3):
>  libsepol, policycoreutils: Move functions to convert a module package
>    to CIL
>  libsepol: add function to generate CIL from a module policydb
>  checkpolicy: Add support for generating CIL
>
> checkpolicy/checkmodule.c              |   59 +-
> checkpolicy/checkpolicy.c              |   79 +-
> libsepol/include/sepol/module_to_cil.h |    8 +
> libsepol/src/module_to_cil.c           | 4010
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> policycoreutils/hll/pp/pp.c            | 3830 +-----------------------------
> 5 files changed, 4107 insertions(+), 3879 deletions(-)  create mode 100644
>libsepol/include/sepol/module_to_cil.h
> create mode 100644 libsepol/src/module_to_cil.c
>
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Jim,

Can you modify the usage and man pages for checkpolicy and checkmodule to include the new CIL options?

Does it make sense to add sepol_ppfile_to_module_package and sepol_module_package_to_cil to the libsepol map file and make pp link dynamically with libsepol?

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