security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch

Add security hooks that will allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a watch
may be set.  More than one hook is required as the watches watch different
types of object.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 9a5d12ab491b..e7914e4e0b02 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -1290,6 +1290,15 @@ static inline int security_post_notification(const struct cred *w_cred,
 }
 #endif
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_SECURITY) && defined(CONFIG_KEY_NOTIFICATIONS)
+int security_watch_key(struct key *key);
+#else
+static inline int security_watch_key(struct key *key)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
 
 int security_unix_stream_connect(struct sock *sock, struct sock *other, struct sock *newsk);