From: William Roberts <william.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx> On the Android side of the house, were required to label each and every sysfs file with a specific label. sysfs often has transient files, and this uncovered a limitation in SELinux. In most filesystems the new inode inherits from the parents label, but in sysfs, this was not the case. The new inode would inherit the syfs wide "default" label. Because of this, many hacks in userspace were performed, but alas there were many races and so it didn't work well. The reason sysfs differed from other filesystems was because the inode creation for kernfs was missing the security callback. This patch adds that security callback, however, is not yet ready to apply. Since sysfs differs from other filesystems in that their is no inode create implementation, since create is not supported, the inode's are generated in the lookup operation. We added the hook there, however the error code path for unwind is unclear. I would like to get some comments on the design (is lookup ok) as well as the unwind paths on lsm initialization error, see the XXX in fs/kernfs/inode.c. William Roberts (1): [RFC] kernfs: hook inode initialization for LSMs fs/kernfs/dir.c | 2 +- fs/kernfs/inode.c | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/kernfs/kernfs-internal.h | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/kernfs/mount.c | 2 +- 4 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ Selinux mailing list Selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to Selinux-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. To get help, send an email containing "help" to Selinux-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
