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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs</title>
<updated>2020-03-16T19:53:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Xu</name>
<email>dxu@dxuuu.xyz</email>
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<published>2020-03-12T20:03:16+00:00</published>
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User extended attributes are useful as metadata storage for kernfs
consumers like cgroups. Especially in the case of cgroups, it is useful
to have a central metadata store that multiple processes/services can
use to coordinate actions.

A concrete example is for userspace out of memory killers. We want to
let delegated cgroup subtree owners (running as non-root) to be able to
say "please avoid killing this cgroup". This is especially important for
desktop linux as delegated subtrees owners are less likely to run as
root.

This patch introduces a new flag, KERNFS_ROOT_SUPPORT_USER_XATTR, that
lets kernfs consumers enable user xattr support. An initial limit of 128
entries or 128KB -- whichever is hit first -- is placed per cgroup
because xattrs come from kernel memory and we don't want to let
unprivileged users accidentally eat up too much kernel memory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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User extended attributes are useful as metadata storage for kernfs
consumers like cgroups. Especially in the case of cgroups, it is useful
to have a central metadata store that multiple processes/services can
use to coordinate actions.

A concrete example is for userspace out of memory killers. We want to
let delegated cgroup subtree owners (running as non-root) to be able to
say "please avoid killing this cgroup". This is especially important for
desktop linux as delegated subtrees owners are less likely to run as
root.

This patch introduces a new flag, KERNFS_ROOT_SUPPORT_USER_XATTR, that
lets kernfs consumers enable user xattr support. An initial limit of 128
entries or 128KB -- whichever is hit first -- is placed per cgroup
because xattrs come from kernel memory and we don't want to let
unprivileged users accidentally eat up too much kernel memory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: use 64bit inos if ino_t is 64bit</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T16:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T23:54:30+00:00</published>
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Each kernfs_node is identified with a 64bit ID.  The low 32bit is
exposed as ino and the high gen.  While this already allows using inos
as keys by looking up with wildcard generation number of 0, it's
adding unnecessary complications for 64bit ino archs which can
directly use kernfs_node IDs as inos to uniquely identify each cgroup
instance.

This patch exposes IDs directly as inos on 64bit ino archs.  The
conversion is mostly straight-forward.

* 32bit ino archs behave the same as before.  64bit ino archs now use
  the whole 64bit ID as ino and the generation number is fixed at 1.

* 64bit inos still use the same idr allocator which gurantees that the
  lower 32bits identify the current live instance uniquely and the
  high 32bits are incremented whenever the low bits wrap.  As the
  upper 32bits are no longer used as gen and we don't wanna start ino
  allocation with 33rd bit set, the initial value for highbits
  allocation is changed to 0 on 64bit ino archs.

* blktrace exposes two 32bit numbers - (INO,GEN) pair - to identify
  the issuing cgroup.  Userland builds FILEID_INO32_GEN fids from
  these numbers to look up the cgroups.  To remain compatible with the
  behavior, always output (LOW32,HIGH32) which will be constructed
  back to the original 64bit ID by __kernfs_fh_to_dentry().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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Each kernfs_node is identified with a 64bit ID.  The low 32bit is
exposed as ino and the high gen.  While this already allows using inos
as keys by looking up with wildcard generation number of 0, it's
adding unnecessary complications for 64bit ino archs which can
directly use kernfs_node IDs as inos to uniquely identify each cgroup
instance.

This patch exposes IDs directly as inos on 64bit ino archs.  The
conversion is mostly straight-forward.

* 32bit ino archs behave the same as before.  64bit ino archs now use
  the whole 64bit ID as ino and the generation number is fixed at 1.

* 64bit inos still use the same idr allocator which gurantees that the
  lower 32bits identify the current live instance uniquely and the
  high 32bits are incremented whenever the low bits wrap.  As the
  upper 32bits are no longer used as gen and we don't wanna start ino
  allocation with 33rd bit set, the initial value for highbits
  allocation is changed to 0 on 64bit ino archs.

* blktrace exposes two 32bit numbers - (INO,GEN) pair - to identify
  the issuing cgroup.  Userland builds FILEID_INO32_GEN fids from
  these numbers to look up the cgroups.  To remain compatible with the
  behavior, always output (LOW32,HIGH32) which will be constructed
  back to the original 64bit ID by __kernfs_fh_to_dentry().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: combine ino/id lookup functions into kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_id()</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T16:18:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T23:54:30+00:00</published>
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kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino() looks the kernfs_node matching the
specified ino.  On top of that, kernfs_get_node_by_id() and
kernfs_fh_get_inode() implement full ID matching by testing the rest
of ID.

On surface, confusingly, the two are slightly different in that the
latter uses 0 gen as wildcard while the former doesn't - does it mean
that the latter can't uniquely identify inodes w/ 0 gen?  In practice,
this is a distinction without a difference because generation number
starts at 1.  There are no actual IDs with 0 gen, so it can always
safely used as wildcard.

Let's simplify the code by renaming kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino()
to kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_id(), moving all lookup logics into it,
and removing now unnecessary kernfs_get_node_by_id().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino() looks the kernfs_node matching the
specified ino.  On top of that, kernfs_get_node_by_id() and
kernfs_fh_get_inode() implement full ID matching by testing the rest
of ID.

On surface, confusingly, the two are slightly different in that the
latter uses 0 gen as wildcard while the former doesn't - does it mean
that the latter can't uniquely identify inodes w/ 0 gen?  In practice,
this is a distinction without a difference because generation number
starts at 1.  There are no actual IDs with 0 gen, so it can always
safely used as wildcard.

Let's simplify the code by renaming kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_ino()
to kernfs_find_and_get_node_by_id(), moving all lookup logics into it,
and removing now unnecessary kernfs_get_node_by_id().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: convert kernfs_node-&gt;id from union kernfs_node_id to u64</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T16:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T23:54:30+00:00</published>
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kernfs_node-&gt;id is currently a union kernfs_node_id which represents
either a 32bit (ino, gen) pair or u64 value.  I can't see much value
in the usage of the union - all that's needed is a 64bit ID which the
current code is already limited to.  Using a union makes the code
unnecessarily complicated and prevents using 64bit ino without adding
practical benefits.

This patch drops union kernfs_node_id and makes kernfs_node-&gt;id a u64.
ino is stored in the lower 32bits and gen upper.  Accessors -
kernfs[_id]_ino() and kernfs[_id]_gen() - are added to retrieve the
ino and gen.  This simplifies ID handling less cumbersome and will
allow using 64bit inos on supported archs.

This patch doesn't make any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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kernfs_node-&gt;id is currently a union kernfs_node_id which represents
either a 32bit (ino, gen) pair or u64 value.  I can't see much value
in the usage of the union - all that's needed is a 64bit ID which the
current code is already limited to.  Using a union makes the code
unnecessarily complicated and prevents using 64bit ino without adding
practical benefits.

This patch drops union kernfs_node_id and makes kernfs_node-&gt;id a u64.
ino is stored in the lower 32bits and gen upper.  Accessors -
kernfs[_id]_ino() and kernfs[_id]_gen() - are added to retrieve the
ino and gen.  This simplifies ID handling less cumbersome and will
allow using 64bit inos on supported archs.

This patch doesn't make any functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernfs: fix ino wrap-around detection</title>
<updated>2019-11-12T16:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-04T23:54:29+00:00</published>
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When the 32bit ino wraps around, kernfs increments the generation
number to distinguish reused ino instances.  The wrap-around detection
tests whether the allocated ino is lower than what the cursor but the
cursor is pointing to the next ino to allocate so the condition never
triggers.

Fix it by remembering the last ino and comparing against that.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 4a3ef68acacf ("kernfs: implement i_generation")
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
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When the 32bit ino wraps around, kernfs increments the generation
number to distinguish reused ino instances.  The wrap-around detection
tests whether the allocated ino is lower than what the cursor but the
cursor is pointing to the next ino to allocate so the condition never
triggers.

Fix it by remembering the last ino and comparing against that.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Fixes: 4a3ef68acacf ("kernfs: implement i_generation")
Cc: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.14+
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 428</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:37:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-06-01T08:08:42+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this file is released under the gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 68 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.292346262@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  this file is released under the gplv2

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 68 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531190114.292346262@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'selinux-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T01:48:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T01:48:09+00:00</published>
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:
 "We've got a few SELinux patches for the v5.2 merge window, the
  highlights are below:

   - Add LSM hooks, and the SELinux implementation, for proper labeling
     of kernfs. While we are only including the SELinux implementation
     here, the rest of the LSM folks have given the hooks a thumbs-up.

   - Update the SELinux mdp (Make Dummy Policy) script to actually work
     on a modern system.

   - Disallow userspace to change the LSM credentials via
     /proc/self/attr when the task's credentials are already overridden.

     The change was made in procfs because all the LSM folks agreed this
     was the Right Thing To Do and duplicating it across each LSM was
     going to be annoying"

* tag 'selinux-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  proc: prevent changes to overridden credentials
  selinux: Check address length before reading address family
  kernfs: fix xattr name handling in LSM helpers
  MAINTAINERS: update SELinux file patterns
  selinux: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  selinux: remove useless assignments
  LSM: lsm_hooks.h - fix missing colon in docstring
  selinux: Make selinux_kernfs_init_security static
  kernfs: initialize security of newly created nodes
  selinux: implement the kernfs_init_security hook
  LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization
  kernfs: use simple_xattrs for security attributes
  selinux: try security xattr after genfs for kernfs filesystems
  kernfs: do not alloc iattrs in kernfs_xattr_get
  kernfs: clean up struct kernfs_iattrs
  scripts/selinux: fix build
  selinux: use kernel linux/socket.h for genheaders and mdp
  scripts/selinux: modernize mdp
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Pull selinux updates from Paul Moore:
 "We've got a few SELinux patches for the v5.2 merge window, the
  highlights are below:

   - Add LSM hooks, and the SELinux implementation, for proper labeling
     of kernfs. While we are only including the SELinux implementation
     here, the rest of the LSM folks have given the hooks a thumbs-up.

   - Update the SELinux mdp (Make Dummy Policy) script to actually work
     on a modern system.

   - Disallow userspace to change the LSM credentials via
     /proc/self/attr when the task's credentials are already overridden.

     The change was made in procfs because all the LSM folks agreed this
     was the Right Thing To Do and duplicating it across each LSM was
     going to be annoying"

* tag 'selinux-pr-20190507' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/selinux:
  proc: prevent changes to overridden credentials
  selinux: Check address length before reading address family
  kernfs: fix xattr name handling in LSM helpers
  MAINTAINERS: update SELinux file patterns
  selinux: avoid uninitialized variable warning
  selinux: remove useless assignments
  LSM: lsm_hooks.h - fix missing colon in docstring
  selinux: Make selinux_kernfs_init_security static
  kernfs: initialize security of newly created nodes
  selinux: implement the kernfs_init_security hook
  LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization
  kernfs: use simple_xattrs for security attributes
  selinux: try security xattr after genfs for kernfs filesystems
  kernfs: do not alloc iattrs in kernfs_xattr_get
  kernfs: clean up struct kernfs_iattrs
  scripts/selinux: fix build
  selinux: use kernel linux/socket.h for genheaders and mdp
  scripts/selinux: modernize mdp
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: kernfs: Corrected spelling mistake</title>
<updated>2019-04-25T19:41:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christina Quast</name>
<email>cquast@hanoverdisplays.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-02T14:01:46+00:00</published>
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flies =&gt; files

Signed-off-by: Christina Quast &lt;cquast@hanoverdisplays.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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flies =&gt; files

Signed-off-by: Christina Quast &lt;cquast@hanoverdisplays.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernfs: fix xattr name handling in LSM helpers</title>
<updated>2019-04-04T13:00:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-03T07:29:41+00:00</published>
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The implementation of kernfs_security_xattr_*() helpers reuses the
kernfs_node_xattr_*() functions, which take the suffix of the xattr name
and extract full xattr name from it using xattr_full_name(). However,
this function relies on the fact that the suffix passed to xattr
handlers from VFS is always constructed from the full name by just
incerementing the pointer. This doesn't necessarily hold for the callers
of kernfs_security_xattr_*(), so their usage will easily lead to
out-of-bounds access.

Fix this by moving the xattr name reconstruction to the VFS xattr
handlers and replacing the kernfs_security_xattr_*() helpers with more
general kernfs_xattr_*() helpers that take full xattr name and allow
accessing all kernfs node's xattrs.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: b230d5aba2d1 ("LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization")
Fixes: ec882da5cda9 ("selinux: implement the kernfs_init_security hook")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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The implementation of kernfs_security_xattr_*() helpers reuses the
kernfs_node_xattr_*() functions, which take the suffix of the xattr name
and extract full xattr name from it using xattr_full_name(). However,
this function relies on the fact that the suffix passed to xattr
handlers from VFS is always constructed from the full name by just
incerementing the pointer. This doesn't necessarily hold for the callers
of kernfs_security_xattr_*(), so their usage will easily lead to
out-of-bounds access.

Fix this by moving the xattr name reconstruction to the VFS xattr
handlers and replacing the kernfs_security_xattr_*() helpers with more
general kernfs_xattr_*() helpers that take full xattr name and allow
accessing all kernfs node's xattrs.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;rong.a.chen@intel.com&gt;
Fixes: b230d5aba2d1 ("LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization")
Fixes: ec882da5cda9 ("selinux: implement the kernfs_init_security hook")
Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>LSM: add new hook for kernfs node initialization</title>
<updated>2019-03-21T02:01:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ondrej Mosnacek</name>
<email>omosnace@redhat.com</email>
</author>
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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 &lt;linux/kernfs.h&gt; 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 &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: more manual merge fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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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 &lt;linux/kernfs.h&gt; 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 &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
[PM: more manual merge fixes]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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