Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] selinux: add selinux_is_enforced() function | From | Stephen Smalley <> | Date | Wed, 12 Apr 2017 10:35:01 -0400 |
| |
On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 15:30 +0200, Sebastien Buisson wrote: > 2017-04-12 13:55 GMT+02:00 Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>: > > As currently written this code isn't something we would want to > > merge > > upstream for two important reasons: > > > > * No clear user of this functionality. There needs to be a well > > defined user of this functionality in the kernel. > > The use case for this new functionality (and the other one) is > getting > SELinux information from the Lustre client code in kernel space. > Latest patch can be accessed at: > https://review.whamcloud.com/24421 > Actual user is sptlrpc_get_sepol() function in > lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/sec.c file. > This code will be pushed to the upstream kernel as soon as it is > landed into Lustre master branch.
How are you using this SELinux information in the kernel and/or in userspace? What's the purpose of it? What are you comparing it against? Why do you care if it changes?
Note btw that the notion of a policy name/type and the policy file path is purely a userspace construct and shouldn't be embedded in your kernel code. Android for example doesn't follow that convention at all; their SELinux policy file is simply /sepolicy. On modern kernels, you can always read the currently loaded policy from the kernel itself via /sys/fs/selinux/policy (formerly just /selinux/policy).
| |