Re: POSIX mqueues

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On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:00 PM, David Graziano
<david.graziano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Roberts, William C
> <william.c.roberts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Selinux [mailto:selinux-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen
>>> Smalley
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 9:33 AM
>>> To: David Graziano <david.graziano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>>> selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: POSIX mqueues
>>>
>>> On 10/24/2016 03:25 PM, David Graziano wrote:
>>> > I am attempting to write policy for a set of applications which use
>>> > POSIX mqueues using named type_transistion rules to uniquely label the
>>> > mqueue files in the /dev/mqueue directory then controlling access
>>> > based on the types. Standard type transition rules seem to work but I
>>> > cannot seem to get the named type transitions to apply the proper
>>> > label. Are named type transitions not supported by the mqueue file
>>> > system? I’m on a 3.14 series kernel with policy version 28 if that
>>> > helps. I’d like to avoid needing to do a restorecon after a new queue
>>> > is created. Named type transistions seem to work on other file systems
>>> > like tmp and jffs2.
>>>
>>> You would need to patch the kernel to support that; the filesystem
>>> implementation must call security_inode_init_security() and pass the &dentry-
>>> >d_name in order to support name-based transitions.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting, is anyone currently working on that, David, are you going to do that? If no one
>> Wants it, I'll do it ;-P
>>
>
> Unless someone else is already working it I'll go ahead and start a patch.
>
> - David


I have a working patch. Where would you recommend submitting the patch
for review/upstreaming? Is it something this mailing list would look
at or should I submit elsewhere?

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