Re: [PATCH 03/12] selinux: Implement Infiniband flush callback

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On 6/30/2016 12:52 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Daniel Jurgens <danielj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 6/30/2016 10:10 AM, Yuval Shaia wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:52:49PM +0300, Dan Jurgens wrote:
>>>
>>>> +static void (*ib_flush_callback)(void);
>>> Do we really want to have such ib_ prefix in security/ directory?
>>>
>>>> +            if (ib_flush_callback)
>>>> +                    ib_flush_callback();
>>> How about some generic mechanism (such as a list) in case more
>>> modules/drivers would like to register callbacks?
>>> ( assuming this is no longer RFC :) )
>>>
>> Paul Moore and I were having a higher level discussion about this in the 00/12 thread.  I think your suggestion makes sense, perhaps Paul will weigh in when he reaches this patch.
> I'm still working on understanding IB, but my current thinking is very
> similar to Yuval's suggestions.  There is a risk of creating a general
> purpose mechanism to solve a specific, isolated problem, but adding a
> LSM notification mechanism does seem like a reasonable thing to do.
>
> My current thinking is to have the LSM framework itself, e.g.
> security/security.c, maintain a list of callbacks (BTW, please make it
> a RCU protected list) with other non-LSM subsystems registering
> callbacks, and specific LSMs making notification calls into the LSM
> framework itself which would handle iterating through the registered
> callbacks.  Since we're going down the general purpose solution route,
> I might add an event field and a void pointer to the callback, for
> example:
>
>   void lsm_notifier_callback(unsigned int event, void *ptr);
>
> ... I would expect at first we would only have a POLICY_CHANGE event
> (ptr set to NULL), but we may want/need to add other events in the
> future.
>
> Make sense?

Hmm. Do you think that we'd want to rewhack the audit code
so that it used this new, general mechanism for its callbacks?

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