From 15446235367fa4a621ff5abfa4b6ebbe25b33763 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Casey Schaufler Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:37:11 -0700 Subject: smack: limit privilege by label There have been a number of requests to make the Smack LSM enforce MAC even in the face of privilege, either capability based or superuser based. This is not universally desired, however, so it seems desirable to make it optional. Further, at least one legacy OS implemented a scheme whereby only processes running with one particular label could be exempt from MAC. This patch supports these three cases. If /smack/onlycap is empty (unset or null-string) privilege is enforced in the normal way. If /smack/onlycap contains a label only processes running with that label may be MAC exempt. If the label in /smack/onlycap is the star label ("*") the semantics of the star label combine with the privilege restrictions to prevent any violations of MAC, even in the presence of privilege. Again, this will be independent of the privilege scheme. Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler Reviewed-by: James Morris --- security/smack/smack.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'security/smack/smack.h') diff --git a/security/smack/smack.h b/security/smack/smack.h index 4a4477f5afdc..31dce559595a 100644 --- a/security/smack/smack.h +++ b/security/smack/smack.h @@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ u32 smack_to_secid(const char *); extern int smack_cipso_direct; extern int smack_net_nltype; extern char *smack_net_ambient; +extern char *smack_onlycap; extern struct smack_known *smack_known; extern struct smack_known smack_known_floor; -- cgit v1.2.3