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<title>linux-toradex.git/security, branch v2.6.14-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>[PATCH] seclvl: use securityfs (fix)</title>
<updated>2005-09-17T18:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Serge Hallyn</name>
<email>serue@us.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2005-09-17T02:27:57+00:00</published>
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That should be -EINVAL for both.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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That should be -EINVAL for both.

Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] seclvl-use-securityfs tidy</title>
<updated>2005-09-17T18:50:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-09-17T02:27:56+00:00</published>
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We don't put braces around single statements, thanks.

Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@osdl.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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We don't put braces around single statements, thanks.

Cc: Serge Hallyn &lt;serue@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Chris Wright &lt;chrisw@osdl.org&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/lsm-2.6 </title>
<updated>2005-09-13T16:48:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-09-13T16:48:54+00:00</published>
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<title>Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 </title>
<updated>2005-09-13T16:47:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@g5.osdl.org</email>
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<published>2005-09-13T16:47:30+00:00</published>
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<title>[PATCH] files: lock-free fd look-up</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dipankar Sarma</name>
<email>dipankar@in.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2005-09-09T20:04:14+00:00</published>
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With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now
be lock-free.  The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni &lt;maneesh@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran_th@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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With the use of RCU in files structure, the look-up of files using fds can now
be lock-free.  The lookup is protected by rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock().
This patch changes the readers to use lock-free lookup.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni &lt;maneesh@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai &lt;kiran_th@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] files: break up files struct</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dipankar Sarma</name>
<email>dipankar@in.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2005-09-09T20:04:10+00:00</published>
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In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically.  Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure.  This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct.  It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro.  Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically.  Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure.  This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct.  It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro.  Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma &lt;dipankar@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-Off-By: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] remove the inode_post_link and inode_post_rename LSM hooks</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
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<published>2005-09-09T20:01:45+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the inode_post_link and inode_post_rename LSM hooks as
they are unused (and likely useless).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch removes the inode_post_link and inode_post_rename LSM hooks as
they are unused (and likely useless).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] Remove security_inode_post_create/mkdir/symlink/mknod hooks</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-09T20:01:44+00:00</published>
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This patch removes the inode_post_create/mkdir/mknod/symlink LSM hooks as
they are obsoleted by the new inode_init_security hook that enables atomic
inode security labeling.

If anyone sees any reason to retain these hooks, please speak now.  Also,
is anyone using the post_rename/link hooks; if not, those could also be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch removes the inode_post_create/mkdir/mknod/symlink LSM hooks as
they are obsoleted by the new inode_init_security hook that enables atomic
inode security labeling.

If anyone sees any reason to retain these hooks, please speak now.  Also,
is anyone using the post_rename/link hooks; if not, those could also be
removed.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[PATCH] tmpfs: Enable atomic inode security labeling</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
</author>
<published>2005-09-09T20:01:43+00:00</published>
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This patch modifies tmpfs to call the inode_init_security LSM hook to set
up the incore inode security state for new inodes before the inode becomes
accessible via the dcache.

As there is no underlying storage of security xattrs in this case, it is
not necessary for the hook to return the (name, value, len) triple to the
tmpfs code, so this patch also modifies the SELinux hook function to
correctly handle the case where the (name, value, len) pointers are NULL.

The hook call is needed in tmpfs in order to support proper security
labeling of tmpfs inodes (e.g.  for udev with tmpfs /dev in Fedora).  With
this change in place, we should then be able to remove the
security_inode_post_create/mkdir/...  hooks safely.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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This patch modifies tmpfs to call the inode_init_security LSM hook to set
up the incore inode security state for new inodes before the inode becomes
accessible via the dcache.

As there is no underlying storage of security xattrs in this case, it is
not necessary for the hook to return the (name, value, len) triple to the
tmpfs code, so this patch also modifies the SELinux hook function to
correctly handle the case where the (name, value, len) pointers are NULL.

The hook call is needed in tmpfs in order to support proper security
labeling of tmpfs inodes (e.g.  for udev with tmpfs /dev in Fedora).  With
this change in place, we should then be able to remove the
security_inode_post_create/mkdir/...  hooks safely.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Cc: Hugh Dickins &lt;hugh@veritas.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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<title>[PATCH] security: enable atomic inode security labeling</title>
<updated>2005-09-09T20:57:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stephen Smalley</name>
<email>sds@tycho.nsa.gov</email>
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<published>2005-09-09T20:01:35+00:00</published>
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The following patch set enables atomic security labeling of newly created
inodes by altering the fs code to invoke a new LSM hook to obtain the security
attribute to apply to a newly created inode and to set up the incore inode
security state during the inode creation transaction.  This parallels the
existing processing for setting ACLs on newly created inodes.  Otherwise, it
is possible for new inodes to be accessed by another thread via the dcache
prior to complete security setup (presently handled by the
post_create/mkdir/...  LSM hooks in the VFS) and a newly created inode may be
left unlabeled on the disk in the event of a crash.  SELinux presently works
around the issue by ensuring that the incore inode security label is
initialized to a special SID that is inaccessible to unprivileged processes
(in accordance with policy), thereby preventing inappropriate access but
potentially causing false denials on legitimate accesses.  A simple test
program demonstrates such false denials on SELinux, and the patch solves the
problem.  Similar such false denials have been encountered in real
applications.

This patch defines a new inode_init_security LSM hook to obtain the security
attribute to apply to a newly created inode and to set up the incore inode
security state for it, and adds a corresponding hook function implementation
to SELinux.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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The following patch set enables atomic security labeling of newly created
inodes by altering the fs code to invoke a new LSM hook to obtain the security
attribute to apply to a newly created inode and to set up the incore inode
security state during the inode creation transaction.  This parallels the
existing processing for setting ACLs on newly created inodes.  Otherwise, it
is possible for new inodes to be accessed by another thread via the dcache
prior to complete security setup (presently handled by the
post_create/mkdir/...  LSM hooks in the VFS) and a newly created inode may be
left unlabeled on the disk in the event of a crash.  SELinux presently works
around the issue by ensuring that the incore inode security label is
initialized to a special SID that is inaccessible to unprivileged processes
(in accordance with policy), thereby preventing inappropriate access but
potentially causing false denials on legitimate accesses.  A simple test
program demonstrates such false denials on SELinux, and the patch solves the
problem.  Similar such false denials have been encountered in real
applications.

This patch defines a new inode_init_security LSM hook to obtain the security
attribute to apply to a newly created inode and to set up the incore inode
security state for it, and adds a corresponding hook function implementation
to SELinux.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley &lt;sds@tycho.nsa.gov&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@osdl.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@osdl.org&gt;
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