security: add inode_init_security_anon() LSM hook

This change adds a new LSM hook, inode_init_security_anon(), that will
be used while creating secure anonymous inodes. The hook allows/denies
its creation and assigns a security context to the inode.

The new hook accepts an optional context_inode parameter that callers
can use to provide additional contextual information to security modules
for granting/denying permission to create an anon-inode of the same type.
This context_inode's security_context can also be used to initialize the
newly created anon-inode's security_context.

Signed-off-by: Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
index a19adef1f088..bdfc8a76a4f7 100644
--- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
+++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
@@ -233,6 +233,15 @@
  *	Returns 0 if @name and @value have been successfully set,
  *	-EOPNOTSUPP if no security attribute is needed, or
  *	-ENOMEM on memory allocation failure.
+ * @inode_init_security_anon:
+ *      Set up the incore security field for the new anonymous inode
+ *      and return whether the inode creation is permitted by the security
+ *      module or not.
+ *      @inode contains the inode structure
+ *      @name name of the anonymous inode class
+ *      @context_inode optional related inode
+ *	Returns 0 on success, -EACCES if the security module denies the
+ *	creation of this inode, or another -errno upon other errors.
  * @inode_create:
  *	Check permission to create a regular file.
  *	@dir contains inode structure of the parent of the new file.