linux/security/smack
David Howells 3a3b7ce933 CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions
Allow kernel services to override LSM settings appropriate to the actions
performed by a task by duplicating a set of credentials, modifying it and then
using task_struct::cred to point to it when performing operations on behalf of
a task.

This is used, for example, by CacheFiles which has to transparently access the
cache on behalf of a process that thinks it is doing, say, NFS accesses with a
potentially inappropriate (with respect to accessing the cache) set of
credentials.

This patch provides two LSM hooks for modifying a task security record:

 (*) security_kernel_act_as() which allows modification of the security datum
     with which a task acts on other objects (most notably files).

 (*) security_kernel_create_files_as() which allows modification of the
     security datum that is used to initialise the security data on a file that
     a task creates.

The patch also provides four new credentials handling functions, which wrap the
LSM functions:

 (1) prepare_kernel_cred()

     Prepare a set of credentials for a kernel service to use, based either on
     a daemon's credentials or on init_cred.  All the keyrings are cleared.

 (2) set_security_override()

     Set the LSM security ID in a set of credentials to a specific security
     context, assuming permission from the LSM policy.

 (3) set_security_override_from_ctx()

     As (2), but takes the security context as a string.

 (4) set_create_files_as()

     Set the file creation LSM security ID in a set of credentials to be the
     same as that on a particular inode.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> [Smack changes]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:28 +11:00
..
Kconfig Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
Makefile Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel 2008-02-05 09:44:20 -08:00
smack_access.c CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors 2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00
smack_lsm.c CRED: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions 2008-11-14 10:39:28 +11:00
smack.h smack: limit privilege by label 2008-08-05 10:55:53 +10:00
smackfs.c CRED: Wrap current->cred and a few other accessors 2008-11-14 10:39:18 +11:00