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From: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
To: selinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
Subject: [SELinux-notebook PATCH] onjects.md: some clarifications
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 09:09:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200710070903.106482-1-dominick.grift@defensec.nl> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Dominick Grift <dominick.grift@defensec.nl>
---
 src/objects.md | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/objects.md b/src/objects.md
index 58664ef..aadb539 100644
--- a/src/objects.md
+++ b/src/objects.md
@@ -110,14 +110,20 @@ objects is managed by the system and generally unseen by the users
 (until labeling goes wrong !!). As processes and objects are created and
 destroyed, they either:
 
-1.  Inherit their labels from the parent process or object.
+1.  Inherit their labels from the parent process or object. The policy
+    default type, role and range statements can be used to change the
+    behavior as discussed in the [**Default Rules**](default_rules.md#default-object-rules)
+    section.
 2.  The policy type, role and range transition statements allow a
     different label to be assigned as discussed in the
     [**Domain and Object Transitions**](domain_object_transitions.md#domain-and-object-transitions)
     section.
 3.  SELinux-aware applications can enforce a new label (with the
     policies approval of course) using the **libselinux** API
-    functions.
+    functions. The `process setfscreate` access vector can be used to
+    allow subjects to create files with a new label programmatically
+    using the ***setfscreatecon**(3)* function, overriding default
+    rules and transition statements.
 4.  An object manager (OM) can enforce a default label that can either
     be built into the OM or obtained via a configuration file (such as
     those used by
@@ -269,6 +275,20 @@ and manage their transition:
 
 `type_transition`, `role_transition` and `range_transition`
 
+SELinux-aware applications can enforce a new label (with the policies
+approval of course) using the **libselinux** API functions. The
+`process setexec`, `process setkeycreate` and `process setsockcreate`
+access vectors can be used to allow subjects to label processes,
+kernel keyrings, and sockets programmatically using the
+***setexec**(3)*, ***setkeycreatecon**(3)* and
+***setsockcreatecon**(3)* functions respectively, overriding
+transition statements.
+
+The `kernel` and `unlabeled` **initial security identifiers** are used
+to associate specified labels with subjects that were left unlabeled
+due to initialization or with subjects that had their label
+invalidated due to policy changes at runtime respectively.
+
 ### Object Reuse
 
 As GNU / Linux runs it creates instances of objects and manages the
-- 
2.27.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-07-10  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-10  7:09 Dominick Grift [this message]
2020-07-10  7:14 ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v2] objects.md: some clarifications Dominick Grift
2020-07-13 10:45   ` Richard Haines
2020-07-15  2:15   ` Paul Moore
2020-07-15  7:56     ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-16 11:18     ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v3] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-16 12:17       ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v4] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-17  1:36         ` Paul Moore
2020-07-17  6:41           ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-18  6:40           ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v5] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-19  9:44           ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v6] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-21 17:44             ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-21 19:51               ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v7] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-21 20:02                 ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v8] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-21 20:14                   ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-22 16:48                     ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-22 16:57                       ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-22 17:32                         ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-23  8:13                           ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-23 12:22                             ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-23 13:04                               ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-23 13:24                                 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-23 13:37                                   ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-24  7:54                                   ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-24 12:23                                     ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-24 12:29                                       ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-24 12:56                                         ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-24 13:06                                           ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-24 13:26                                             ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-24 13:30                                               ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-22 17:29                       ` Dominick Grift
2020-07-22 15:11                   ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-23  7:50                     ` [SELinux-notebook PATCH v9] " Dominick Grift
2020-07-23 12:00                       ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-27 13:43                         ` Stephen Smalley
2020-07-28  2:17                           ` Paul Moore

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