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Ondrej Mosnacek b230d5aba2 LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization
This patch introduces a new security hook that is intended for
initializing the security data for newly created kernfs nodes, which
provide a way of storing a non-default security context, but need to
operate independently from mounts (and therefore may not have an
associated inode at the moment of creation).

The main motivation is to allow kernfs nodes to inherit the context of
the parent under SELinux, similar to the behavior of
security_inode_init_security(). Other LSMs may implement their own logic
for handling the creation of new nodes.

This patch also adds helper functions to <linux/kernfs.h> for
getting/setting security xattrs of a kernfs node so that LSMs hooks are
able to do their job. Other important attributes should be accessible
direcly in the kernfs_node fields (in case there is need for more, then
new helpers should be added to kernfs.h along with the patch that needs
them).

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
[PM: more manual merge fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2019-03-20 22:01:02 -04:00
arch Kbuild updates for v5.1 (2nd) 2019-03-17 13:25:26 -07:00
block for-5.1/block-post-20190315 2019-03-16 12:36:39 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo 2019-03-07 18:32:03 -08:00
Documentation Kbuild updates for v5.1 (2nd) 2019-03-17 13:25:26 -07:00
drivers xen: one further fix for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-17 09:16:22 -07:00
fs LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization 2019-03-20 22:01:02 -04:00
include LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization 2019-03-20 22:01:02 -04:00
init init/main: add checks for the return value of memblock_alloc*() 2019-03-12 10:04:02 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-12 14:08:19 -07:00
kernel pidfd patches for v5.1-rc1 2019-03-16 13:47:14 -07:00
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scripts scripts/selinux: fix build 2019-03-19 12:29:04 -04:00
security LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization 2019-03-20 22:01:02 -04:00
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virt ARM: some cleanups, direct physical timer assignment, cache sanitization 2019-03-15 15:00:28 -07:00
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CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.