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diff --git a/Documentation/security/LSM.txt b/Documentation/security/LSM.txt index 3db7e671c440..c2683f28ed36 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/LSM.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/LSM.txt @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ system, building their checks on top of the defined capability hooks. For more details on capabilities, see capabilities(7) in the Linux man-pages project. +A list of the active security modules can be found by reading +/sys/kernel/security/lsm. This is a comma separated list, and +will always include the capability module. The list reflects the +order in which checks are made. The capability module will always +be first, followed by any "minor" modules (e.g. Yama) and then +the one "major" module (e.g. SELinux) if there is one configured. + Based on https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/26/215, a new LSM is accepted into the kernel when its intent (a description of what it tries to protect against and in what cases one would expect to |