linux/security/security.c, branch v2.6.26

Security: Make secctx_to_secid() take const secdata

2008-04-29T20:22:56Z

Make secctx_to_secid() take constant secdata. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

keys: add keyctl function to get a security label

2008-04-29T15:06:16Z

Add a keyctl() function to get the security label of a key. The following is added to Documentation/keys.txt: (*) Get the LSM security context attached to a key. long keyctl(KEYCTL_GET_SECURITY, key_serial_t key, char *buffer, size_t buflen) This function returns a string that represents the LSM security context attached to a key in the buffer provided. Unless there's an error, it always returns the amount of data it could produce, even if that's too big for the buffer, but it won't copy more than requested to userspace. If the buffer pointer is NULL then no copy will take place. A NUL character is included at the end of the string if the buffer is sufficiently big. This is included in the returned count. If no LSM is in force then an empty string will be returned. A process must have view permission on the key for this function to be successful. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: declare keyctl_get_security()] Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Cc: Paul Moore Cc: Chris Wright Cc: James Morris Cc: Kevin Coffman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

xattr: add missing consts to function arguments

2008-04-29T15:06:06Z

Add missing consts to xattr function arguments. Signed-off-by: David Howells Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

capabilities: implement per-process securebits

2008-04-28T15:58:26Z

Filesystem capability support makes it possible to do away with (set)uid-0 based privilege and use capabilities instead. That is, with filesystem support for capabilities but without this present patch, it is (conceptually) possible to manage a system with capabilities alone and never need to obtain privilege via (set)uid-0. Of course, conceptually isn't quite the same as currently possible since few user applications, certainly not enough to run a viable system, are currently prepared to leverage capabilities to exercise privilege. Further, many applications exist that may never get upgraded in this way, and the kernel will continue to want to support their setuid-0 base privilege needs. Where pure-capability applications evolve and replace setuid-0 binaries, it is desirable that there be a mechanisms by which they can contain their privilege. In addition to leveraging the per-process bounding and inheritable sets, this should include suppressing the privilege of the uid-0 superuser from the process' tree of children. The feature added by this patch can be leveraged to suppress the privilege associated with (set)uid-0. This suppression requires CAP_SETPCAP to initiate, and only immediately affects the 'current' process (it is inherited through fork()/exec()). This reimplementation differs significantly from the historical support for securebits which was system-wide, unwieldy and which has ultimately withered to a dead relic in the source of the modern kernel. With this patch applied a process, that is capable(CAP_SETPCAP), can now drop all legacy privilege (through uid=0) for itself and all subsequently fork()'d/exec()'d children with: prctl(PR_SET_SECUREBITS, 0x2f); This patch represents a no-op unless CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES is enabled at configure time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix uninitialised var warning] [serue@us.ibm.com: capabilities: use cap_task_prctl when !CONFIG_SECURITY] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan Acked-by: Serge Hallyn Reviewed-by: James Morris Cc: Stephen Smalley Cc: Paul Moore Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] switch a bunch of LSM hooks from nameidata to path

2008-04-22T03:13:23Z

Namely, ones from namespace.c Signed-off-by: Al Viro

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

2008-04-19T01:18:30Z

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable Security: Introduce security= boot parameter Audit: Final renamings and cleanup SELinux: use new audit hooks, remove redundant exports Audit: internally use the new LSM audit hooks LSM/Audit: Introduce generic Audit LSM hooks SELinux: remove redundant exports Netlink: Use generic LSM hook Audit: use new LSM hooks instead of SELinux exports SELinux: setup new inode/ipc getsecid hooks LSM: Introduce inode_getsecid and ipc_getsecid hooks

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26

2008-04-19T01:02:35Z

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits) [NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices [IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add(). [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found [PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init(). [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call. [INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call. SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked. [netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg. tc35815: Statistics cleanup natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms [TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code [TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table [TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16 ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16 sb1000.c: make const arrays static sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions ...

security: fix up documentation for security_module_enable

2008-04-19T00:00:59Z

security_module_enable() can only be called during kernel init. Signed-off-by: James Morris

Security: Introduce security= boot parameter

2008-04-19T00:00:51Z

Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module. User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen. LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux and SMACK to do so. Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and the initial task security setup (swapper->security) is done. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish Acked-by: James Morris

LSM/Audit: Introduce generic Audit LSM hooks

2008-04-18T23:52:36Z

Introduce a generic Audit interface for security modules by adding the following new LSM hooks: audit_rule_init(field, op, rulestr, lsmrule) audit_rule_known(krule) audit_rule_match(secid, field, op, rule, actx) audit_rule_free(rule) Those hooks are only available if CONFIG_AUDIT is enabled. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish Acked-by: James Morris Reviewed-by: Paul Moore