linux/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst

.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
.. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
.. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation

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Linux Security Modules
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:Author: Casey Schaufler
:Date: July 2023

Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement
additional access controls to the Linux security policies.

The various security modules may support any of these attributes:

``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the
process.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``.
This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules.
Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``.
AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``.

``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the
current image was executed.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``.
This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``.

``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
creating file system objects.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``.
This is supported by the SELinux security module.

``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
creating key objects.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``.
This is supported by the SELinux security module.

``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the
current security context was set.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``.
This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``.

``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
creating socket objects.
The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``.
This is supported by the SELinux security module.

Kernel interface
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Set a security attribute of the current process
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.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
    :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr

Get the specified security attributes of the current process
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.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
    :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr

.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
    :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules

Additional documentation
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* Documentation/security/lsm.rst
* Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst