linux_dsm_epyc7002/security/selinux/ss/services.h
Stephen Smalley c7c556f1e8 selinux: refactor changing booleans
Refactor the logic for changing SELinux policy booleans in a similar
manner to the refactoring of policy load, thereby reducing the
size of the critical section when the policy write-lock is held
and making it easier to convert the policy rwlock to RCU in the
future.  Instead of directly modifying the policydb in place, modify
a copy and then swap it into place through a single pointer update.
Only fully copy the portions of the policydb that are affected by
boolean changes to avoid the full cost of a deep policydb copy.
Introduce another level of indirection for the sidtab since changing
booleans does not require updating the sidtab, unlike policy load.
While we are here, create a common helper for notifying
other kernel components and userspace of a policy change and call it
from both security_set_bools() and selinux_policy_commit().

Based on an old (2004) patch by Kaigai Kohei [1] to convert the policy
rwlock to RCU that was deferred at the time since it did not
significantly improve performance and introduced complexity. Peter
Enderborg later submitted a patch series to convert to RCU [2] that
would have made changing booleans a much more expensive operation
by requiring a full policydb_write();policydb_read(); sequence to
deep copy the entire policydb and also had concerns regarding
atomic allocations.

This change is now simplified by the earlier work to encapsulate
policy state in the selinux_policy struct and to refactor
policy load.  After this change, the last major obstacle to
converting the policy rwlock to RCU is likely the sidtab live
convert support.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/6e2f9128-e191-ebb3-0e87-74bfccb0767f@tycho.nsa.gov/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/20180530141104.28569-1-peter.enderborg@sony.com/

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2020-08-17 21:00:33 -04:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/*
* Implementation of the security services.
*
* Author : Stephen Smalley, <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
*/
#ifndef _SS_SERVICES_H_
#define _SS_SERVICES_H_
#include "policydb.h"
/* Mapping for a single class */
struct selinux_mapping {
u16 value; /* policy value for class */
unsigned int num_perms; /* number of permissions in class */
u32 perms[sizeof(u32) * 8]; /* policy values for permissions */
};
/* Map for all of the classes, with array size */
struct selinux_map {
struct selinux_mapping *mapping; /* indexed by class */
u16 size; /* array size of mapping */
};
struct selinux_policy {
struct sidtab *sidtab;
struct policydb policydb;
struct selinux_map map;
};
struct selinux_ss {
rwlock_t policy_rwlock;
u32 latest_granting;
struct selinux_policy *policy;
} __randomize_layout;
void services_compute_xperms_drivers(struct extended_perms *xperms,
struct avtab_node *node);
void services_compute_xperms_decision(struct extended_perms_decision *xpermd,
struct avtab_node *node);
#endif /* _SS_SERVICES_H_ */