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From: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3] libselinux: Add security_reject_unknown(3) man page
Date: Wed,  6 Mar 2019 13:58:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190306125814.22023-1-plautrba@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pjdy35sma9h.fsf@redhat.com>

Commit c19395d72295 ("libselinux: selinux_set_mapping: fix handling of unknown
classes/perms") added a new interface security_reject_unknown() which needs to
be documented.

Signed-off-by: Petr Lautrbach <plautrba@redhat.com>
---
 libselinux/man/man3/security_getenforce.3     | 20 ++++++++++++++++++-
 libselinux/man/man3/security_reject_unknown.3 |  1 +
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 libselinux/man/man3/security_reject_unknown.3

diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/security_getenforce.3 b/libselinux/man/man3/security_getenforce.3
index 29cf3de7..f339b8b0 100644
--- a/libselinux/man/man3/security_getenforce.3
+++ b/libselinux/man/man3/security_getenforce.3
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 .TH "security_getenforce" "3" "1 January 2004" "russell@coker.com.au" "SELinux API documentation"
 .SH "NAME"
-security_getenforce, security_setenforce, security_deny_unknown, security_get_checkreqprot\- get or set the enforcing state of SELinux
+security_getenforce, security_setenforce, security_deny_unknown, security_reject_unknown,
+security_get_checkreqprot \- get or set the enforcing state of SELinux
 .
 .SH "SYNOPSIS"
 .B #include <selinux/selinux.h>
@@ -11,6 +12,8 @@ security_getenforce, security_setenforce, security_deny_unknown, security_get_ch
 .sp
 .B int security_deny_unknown(void);
 .sp
+.B int security_reject_unknown(void);
+.sp
 .B int security_get_checkreqprot(void);
 .
 .SH "DESCRIPTION"
@@ -27,6 +30,21 @@ returned.
 returns 0 if SELinux treats policy queries on undefined object classes or
 permissions as being allowed, 1 if such queries are denied, and \-1 on error.
 
+.BR security_reject_unknown ()
+returns 1 if the current policy was built with handle-unknown=reject and SELinux
+would reject loading it, if it did not define all kernel object classes and
+permissions. In this state, when
+.BR selinux_set_mapping()
+and
+.BR selinux_check_access()
+are used with an undefined userspace class or permission, an error is returned
+and errno is set to EINVAL.
+
+It returns 0 if the current policy was built with handle-unknown=allow or
+handle-unknown=deny. In this state, policy queries are treated according to
+.BR security_deny_unknown().
+\-1 is returned on error.
+
 .BR security_get_checkreqprot ()
 can be used to determine whether SELinux is configured to check the
 protection requested by the application or the actual protection that will
diff --git a/libselinux/man/man3/security_reject_unknown.3 b/libselinux/man/man3/security_reject_unknown.3
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d59e5c2c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libselinux/man/man3/security_reject_unknown.3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.so man3/security_getenforce.3
-- 
2.20.1


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-06 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-04 16:37 [PATCH] libselinux: Add security_reject_unknown(3) man page Petr Lautrbach
2019-03-04 18:23 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-03-05  9:12   ` Petr Lautrbach
2019-03-05  9:35     ` [PATCH v2] " Petr Lautrbach
2019-03-05 15:44       ` Stephen Smalley
2019-03-06 12:56         ` Petr Lautrbach
2019-03-06 12:58           ` Petr Lautrbach [this message]
2019-03-06 13:26             ` [PATCH v3] " Stephen Smalley
2019-03-11 15:48               ` Stephen Smalley

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