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From: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	 linux-security-module <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	 Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>,
	 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>,
	 "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	 John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 04/12] S.A.R.A.: generic DFA for string matching
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2019 18:01:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJHCu1+35GhGJY8jDMPEU8meYhJTVgvzY5sJgVCuLrxCoGgHEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez35oJhey5WNzMQR14ko6RPJUJp+nCuAHVUJqX7EPPPokA@mail.gmail.com>

Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 12:55 PM Salvatore Mesoraca
> <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Creation of a generic Discrete Finite Automata implementation
> > for string matching. The transition tables have to be produced
> > in user-space.
> > This allows us to possibly support advanced string matching
> > patterns like regular expressions, but they need to be supported
> > by user-space tools.
>
> AppArmor already has a DFA implementation that takes a DFA machine
> from userspace and runs it against file paths; see e.g.
> aa_dfa_match(). Did you look into whether you could move their DFA to
> some place like lib/ and reuse it instead of adding yet another
> generic rule interface to the kernel?

Yes, using AppArmor DFA cloud be a possibility.
Though, I didn't know how AppArmor's maintainers feel about this.
I thought that was easier to just implement my own.
Anyway I understand that re-using that code would be the optimal solution.
I'm adding in CC AppArmor's maintainers, let's see what they think about this.

> > +++ b/security/sara/dfa.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,335 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * S.A.R.A. Linux Security Module
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2017 Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com>
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as
> > + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> Throughout the series, you are adding files that both add an SPDX
> identifier and have a description of the license in the comment block
> at the top. The SPDX identifier already identifies the license.

I added the license description because I thought it was required anyway.
IANAL, if you tell me that SPDX it's enough I'll remove the description.

Thank you for your comments.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-07 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-06 10:54 [PATCH v5 00/12] S.A.R.A. a new stacked LSM Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] S.A.R.A.: add documentation Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 17:14   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-06 17:32     ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-13  0:14   ` James Morris
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] S.A.R.A.: create framework Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 15:29   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] S.A.R.A.: cred blob management Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-12 23:35   ` James Morris
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] S.A.R.A.: generic DFA for string matching Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 18:32   ` Jann Horn
2019-07-07 16:01     ` Salvatore Mesoraca [this message]
2019-07-08 17:37       ` Jann Horn
2019-10-06 16:49       ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-10-07 12:40         ` Jann Horn
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] LSM: creation of "check_vmflags" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] S.A.R.A.: WX protection Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 15:38   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-06 19:28   ` Al Viro
2019-07-07 15:49     ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-09  4:51       ` Kees Cook
2019-07-08 12:42   ` David Laight
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] LSM: creation of "pagefault_handler" LSM hook Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] S.A.R.A.: trampoline emulation Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 15:31   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] S.A.R.A.: WX protection procattr interface Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] S.A.R.A.: XATTRs support Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] S.A.R.A.: /proc/*/mem write limitation Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 18:20   ` Jann Horn
2019-07-07 16:15     ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 10:54 ` [PATCH v5 12/12] MAINTAINERS: take maintainership for S.A.R.A Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-06 14:33 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] S.A.R.A. a new stacked LSM Jordan Glover
2019-07-06 15:02   ` Salvatore Mesoraca
2019-07-07  1:16 ` James Morris
2019-07-07 15:40   ` Salvatore Mesoraca

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