From: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
casey.schaufler@intel.com, jmorris@namei.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
keescook@chromium.org, john.johansen@canonical.com,
penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp, paul@paul-moore.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 22/23] LSM: Add /proc attr entry for full LSM context
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:56:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200210115611.GA13930@horizon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <09d96236-715a-344a-38bc-c05208698125@tycho.nsa.gov>
On Mon, 03 Feb 2020 at 13:54:45 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> The printable ASCII bit is based on what the dbus maintainer requested in
> previous discussions.
I thought in previous discussions, we had come to the conclusion that
I can't assume it's 7-bit ASCII. (If I *can* assume that for this new
API, that's even better.)
To be clear, when I say ASCII I mean a sequence of bytes != '\0' with
their high bit unset (x & 0x7f == x) and the obvious mapping to/from
Unicode (bytes '\1' to '\x7f' represent codepoints U+0001 to U+007F). Is
that the same thing you mean?
I thought the conclusion we had come to in previous conversations was
that the LSM context is what GLib calls a "bytestring", the same as
filenames and environment variables - an opaque sequence of bytes != '\0',
with no further guarantees, and no specified encoding or mapping to/from
Unicode (most likely some superset of ASCII like UTF-8 or Latin-1,
but nobody knows which one, and they could equally well be some binary
encoding with no Unicode meaning, as long as it avoids '\0').
If I can safely assume that a new kernel <-> user-space API is constrained
to UTF-8 or a UTF-8 subset like ASCII, then I can provide more friendly
APIs for user-space features built over it. If that isn't possible, the
next best thing is a "bytestring" like filenames, environment variables,
and most kernel <-> user-space strings in general.
smcv
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-02-10 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20200124002306.3552-1-casey.ref@schaufler-ca.com>
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 00/23] LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 01/23] LSM: Infrastructure management of the sock security Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 02/23] LSM: Create and manage the lsmblob data structure Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 14:21 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 03/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_audit_rule_match Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 04/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_kernel_act_as Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 05/23] net: Prepare UDS for security module stacking Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 06/23] Use lsmblob in security_secctx_to_secid Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 14:29 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 07/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_secid_to_secctx Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 08/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_ipc_getsecid Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 09/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_task_getsecid Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 10/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_inode_getsecid Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 11/23] LSM: Use lsmblob in security_cred_getsecid Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 12/23] IMA: Change internal interfaces to use lsmblobs Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 13/23] LSM: Specify which LSM to display Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 14/23] LSM: Ensure the correct LSM context releaser Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 15/23] LSM: Use lsmcontext in security_secid_to_secctx Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:22 ` [PATCH v14 16/23] LSM: Use lsmcontext in security_inode_getsecctx Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 17/23] LSM: security_secid_to_secctx in netlink netfilter Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 18/23] NET: Store LSM netlabel data in a lsmblob Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 14:36 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 19/23] LSM: Verify LSM display sanity in binder Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 20/23] Audit: Add subj_LSM fields when necessary Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 21/23] Audit: Include object data for all security modules Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 22/23] LSM: Add /proc attr entry for full LSM context Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 14:42 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 16:20 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 19:28 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 20:16 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-27 20:05 ` Simon McVittie
2020-02-03 20:54 ` John Johansen
2020-01-27 22:49 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-01-31 22:10 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-03 18:54 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-03 19:37 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-03 21:39 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-04 13:37 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-04 17:14 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-10 11:56 ` Simon McVittie [this message]
2020-02-10 13:25 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-10 14:55 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-10 18:32 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-10 19:00 ` John Johansen
2020-02-11 15:59 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-02-11 17:58 ` John Johansen
2020-02-11 18:35 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-11 19:11 ` John Johansen
2020-02-10 18:56 ` John Johansen
2020-02-03 21:02 ` John Johansen
2020-02-03 21:43 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-02-03 22:49 ` John Johansen
2020-02-03 20:59 ` John Johansen
2020-01-24 0:23 ` [PATCH v14 23/23] AppArmor: Remove the exclusive flag Casey Schaufler
2020-01-24 15:05 ` [PATCH v14 00/23] LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 21:04 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-24 21:49 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-01-27 16:14 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-27 16:56 ` KASAN slab-out-of-bounds in tun_chr_open/sock_init_data (Was: Re: [PATCH v14 00/23] LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor) Stephen Smalley
2020-01-27 17:34 ` Casey Schaufler
2020-01-27 17:16 ` [PATCH v14 00/23] LSM: Module stacking for AppArmor Casey Schaufler
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