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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_next into next</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T22:26:14+00:00</updated>
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<name>James Morris</name>
<email>jmorris@namei.org</email>
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<published>2008-10-10T22:26:14+00:00</published>
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<title>netlabel: Replace protocol/NetLabel linking with refrerence counts</title>
<updated>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Moore</name>
<email>paul.moore@hp.com</email>
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<published>2008-10-10T14:16:31+00:00</published>
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NetLabel has always had a list of backpointers in the CIPSO DOI definition
structure which pointed to the NetLabel LSM domain mapping structures which
referenced the CIPSO DOI struct.  The rationale for this was that when an
administrator removed a CIPSO DOI from the system all of the associated
NetLabel LSM domain mappings should be removed as well; a list of
backpointers made this a simple operation.

Unfortunately, while the backpointers did make the removal easier they were
a bit of a mess from an implementation point of view which was making
further development difficult.  Since the removal of a CIPSO DOI is a
realtively rare event it seems to make sense to remove this backpointer
list as the optimization was hurting us more then it was helping.  However,
we still need to be able to track when a CIPSO DOI definition is being used
so replace the backpointer list with a reference count.  In order to
preserve the current functionality of removing the associated LSM domain
mappings when a CIPSO DOI is removed we walk the LSM domain mapping table,
removing the relevant entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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NetLabel has always had a list of backpointers in the CIPSO DOI definition
structure which pointed to the NetLabel LSM domain mapping structures which
referenced the CIPSO DOI struct.  The rationale for this was that when an
administrator removed a CIPSO DOI from the system all of the associated
NetLabel LSM domain mappings should be removed as well; a list of
backpointers made this a simple operation.

Unfortunately, while the backpointers did make the removal easier they were
a bit of a mess from an implementation point of view which was making
further development difficult.  Since the removal of a CIPSO DOI is a
realtively rare event it seems to make sense to remove this backpointer
list as the optimization was hurting us more then it was helping.  However,
we still need to be able to track when a CIPSO DOI definition is being used
so replace the backpointer list with a reference count.  In order to
preserve the current functionality of removing the associated LSM domain
mappings when a CIPSO DOI is removed we walk the LSM domain mapping table,
removing the relevant entries.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>smack: limit privilege by label</title>
<updated>2008-08-05T00:55:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
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<published>2008-07-30T22:37:11+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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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 &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current</title>
<updated>2008-04-29T18:41:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2008-04-29T18:41:22+00:00</published>
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* 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] new predicate - AUDIT_FILETYPE
  [patch 2/2] Use find_task_by_vpid in audit code
  [patch 1/2] audit: let userspace fully control TTY input auditing
  [PATCH 2/2] audit: fix sparse shadowed variable warnings
  [PATCH 1/2] audit: move extern declarations to audit.h
  Audit: MAINTAINERS update
  Audit: increase the maximum length of the key field
  Audit: standardize string audit interfaces
  Audit: stop deadlock from signals under load
  Audit: save audit_backlog_limit audit messages in case auditd comes back
  Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages
  Audit: end printk with newline
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* 'audit.b50' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
  [PATCH] new predicate - AUDIT_FILETYPE
  [patch 2/2] Use find_task_by_vpid in audit code
  [patch 1/2] audit: let userspace fully control TTY input auditing
  [PATCH 2/2] audit: fix sparse shadowed variable warnings
  [PATCH 1/2] audit: move extern declarations to audit.h
  Audit: MAINTAINERS update
  Audit: increase the maximum length of the key field
  Audit: standardize string audit interfaces
  Audit: stop deadlock from signals under load
  Audit: save audit_backlog_limit audit messages in case auditd comes back
  Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages
  Audit: end printk with newline
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<title>smack: make smk_cipso_doi() and smk_unlbl_ambient()</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T15:58:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
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<published>2008-04-28T09:13:43+00:00</published>
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The functions smk_cipso_doi and smk_unlbl_ambient are not used outside
smackfs.c and should hence be static.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The functions smk_cipso_doi and smk_unlbl_ambient are not used outside
smackfs.c and should hence be static.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Audit: collect sessionid in netlink messages</title>
<updated>2008-04-28T10:18:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Paris</name>
<email>eparis@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-04-18T14:09:25+00:00</published>
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Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was
available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of
netlink messages.  This patch adds that information to netlink messages
so we can audit who sent netlink messages.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Previously I added sessionid output to all audit messages where it was
available but we still didn't know the sessionid of the sender of
netlink messages.  This patch adds that information to netlink messages
so we can audit who sent netlink messages.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Security: Introduce security= boot parameter</title>
<updated>2008-04-19T00:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwish.07@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2008-03-06T16:09:10+00:00</published>
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Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM
registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module.

User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no
security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM
asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security
module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen.

LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register
by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux
and SMACK to do so.

Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on
boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and
the initial task security setup (swapper-&gt;security) is done.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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Add the security= boot parameter. This is done to avoid LSM
registration clashes in case of more than one bult-in module.

User can choose a security module to enable at boot. If no
security= boot parameter is specified, only the first LSM
asking for registration will be loaded. An invalid security
module name will be treated as if no module has been chosen.

LSM modules must check now if they are allowed to register
by calling security_module_enable(ops) first. Modify SELinux
and SMACK to do so.

Do not let SMACK register smackfs if it was not chosen on
boot. Smackfs assumes that smack hooks are registered and
the initial task security setup (swapper-&gt;security) is done.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
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<title>smackfs: remove redundant lock, fix open(,O_RDWR)</title>
<updated>2008-03-25T02:22:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwish.07@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-24T19:29:49+00:00</published>
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Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking
write sessions on open() was needed.  This lock is no longer useful now since
each rule is handled by a single write() call.

This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag
was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an
Oops.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Older smackfs was parsing MAC rules by characters, thus a need of locking
write sessions on open() was needed.  This lock is no longer useful now since
each rule is handled by a single write() call.

This is also a bugfix since seq_open() was not called if an open() O_RDWR flag
was given, leading to a seq_read() without an initialized seq_file, thus an
Oops.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>smackfs: do not trust `count' in inodes write()s</title>
<updated>2008-03-13T20:11:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ahmed S. Darwish</name>
<email>darwish.07@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-03-13T19:32:34+00:00</published>
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Smackfs write() implementation does not put a higher bound on the number of
bytes to copy from user-space.  This may lead to a DOS attack if a malicious
`count' field is given.

Assure that given `count' is exactly the length needed for a /smack/load rule.
 In case of /smack/cipso where the length is relative, assure that `count'
does not exceed the size needed for a buffer representing maximum possible
number of CIPSO 2.2 categories.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Smackfs write() implementation does not put a higher bound on the number of
bytes to copy from user-space.  This may lead to a DOS attack if a malicious
`count' field is given.

Assure that given `count' is exactly the length needed for a /smack/load rule.
 In case of /smack/cipso where the length is relative, assure that `count'
does not exceed the size needed for a buffer representing maximum possible
number of CIPSO 2.2 categories.

Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish &lt;darwish.07@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Smack: unlabeled outgoing ambient packets</title>
<updated>2008-02-19T15:51:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Casey Schaufler</name>
<email>casey@schaufler-ca.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-02-15T23:24:25+00:00</published>
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Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by
specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming unlabeled
packets.

Because the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh
is one know application that behaves thus, it is prudent to respond in
kind.

This patch changes the network labeling behavior such that an outgoing
packet that would be given a CIPSO label that matches the ambient label
is left unlabeled.  An "unlbl" domain is added and the netlabel
defaulting mechanism invoked rather than assuming that everything is
CIPSO.  Locking has been added around changes to the ambient label as
the mechanisms used to do so are more involved.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by
specifying an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming unlabeled
packets.

Because the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh
is one know application that behaves thus, it is prudent to respond in
kind.

This patch changes the network labeling behavior such that an outgoing
packet that would be given a CIPSO label that matches the ambient label
is left unlabeled.  An "unlbl" domain is added and the netlabel
defaulting mechanism invoked rather than assuming that everything is
CIPSO.  Locking has been added around changes to the ambient label as
the mechanisms used to do so are more involved.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler &lt;casey@schaufler-ca.com&gt;
Acked-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul.moore@hp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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