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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] capsicum: implementations of new LSM hooks
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:05:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrUBCL1jKfooLaqrJCb-uYrMwYPQL2v-M04NTVf2LoD_fw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1404124096-21445-10-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com>

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:28 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> wrote:
> If the LSM does not provide implementations of the .file_lookup and
> .file_install LSM hooks, always use the Capsicum implementations.
>
> The Capsicum implementation of file_lookup checks for a Capsicum
> capability wrapper file and unwraps to if the appropriate rights
> are available.
>
> The Capsicum implementation of file_install checks whether the file
> has restricted rights associated with it.  If it does, it is replaced
> with a Capsicum capability wrapper file before installation into the
> fdtable.

I think I fall on the "no LSM" side of the fence.  This kind of stuff
should be available regardless of selected LSM (as it is in your
code), but until someone has a use case for the LSM hooks in real
LSMs, I don't really see the point.

--Andy

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-30 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-30 10:28 [RFC PATCH 00/11] Adding FreeBSD's Capsicum security framework (part 1) David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 01/11] fs: add O_BENEATH_ONLY flag to openat(2) David Drysdale
2014-06-30 14:49   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 15:49     ` David Drysdale
2014-06-30 15:53       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-08 12:07         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-08 12:48           ` Meredydd Luff
2014-07-08 12:51             ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-08 13:04               ` Meredydd Luff
2014-07-08 13:12                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-30 20:40   ` Andi Kleen
2014-06-30 21:11     ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01  9:53     ` David Drysdale
2014-07-01 18:58       ` Loganaden Velvindron
2014-07-08 12:03   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-08 16:54     ` David Drysdale
2014-07-09  8:48       ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 02/11] selftests: Add test of O_BENEATH_ONLY & openat(2) David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 03/11] capsicum: rights values and structure definitions David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 04/11] capsicum: implement fgetr() and friends David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 05/11] capsicum: convert callers to use fgetr() etc David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 06/11] capsicum: implement sockfd_lookupr() David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 07/11] capsicum: convert callers to use sockfd_lookupr() etc David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 08/11] capsicum: add new LSM hooks on FD/file conversion David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 09/11] capsicum: implementations of new LSM hooks David Drysdale
2014-06-30 16:05   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-07-02 13:49     ` Paul Moore
2014-07-02 17:09       ` David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 10/11] capsicum: invocation " David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 11/11] capsicum: add syscalls to limit FD rights David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 1/5] man-pages: open.2: describe O_BENEATH_ONLY flag David Drysdale
2014-06-30 22:22   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 2/5] man-pages: capsicum.7: describe Capsicum capability framework David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 3/5] man-pages: rights.7: Describe Capsicum primary rights David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 4/5] man-pages: cap_rights_limit.2: limit FD rights for Capsicum David Drysdale
2014-06-30 14:53   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 15:35     ` David Drysdale
2014-06-30 16:06       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-06-30 16:32         ` David Drysdale
2014-06-30 10:28 ` [PATCH 5/5] man-pages: cap_rights_get: retrieve Capsicum fd rights David Drysdale
2014-06-30 22:28   ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-01  9:19     ` David Drysdale
2014-07-01 14:18       ` Andy Lutomirski
2014-07-03  9:12 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] Adding FreeBSD's Capsicum security framework (part 1) Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-03 10:01   ` Loganaden Velvindron
2014-07-03 18:39   ` David Drysdale
2014-07-04  7:03     ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 10:29       ` David Drysdale
2014-07-07 12:20         ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-07-07 14:11           ` David Drysdale
2014-07-07 22:33           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2014-07-08 14:58             ` Kees Cook
2014-08-16 15:41             ` Pavel Machek

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