Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:51:50 +0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add security hooks to binder and implement the hooks for SELinux. |
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:54:10AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > Add security hooks to the binder and implement the hooks for SELinux. > The security hooks enable security modules such as SELinux to implement > controls over binder IPC. The security hooks include support for > controlling what process can become the binder context manager > (binder_set_context_mgr), controlling the ability of a process > to invoke a binder transaction/IPC to another process (binder_transaction), > controlling the ability of a process to transfer a binder reference to > another process (binder_transfer_binder), and controlling the ability > of a process to transfer an open file to another process (binder_transfer_file). > > These hooks have been included in the Android kernel trees since Android 4.3.
Very interesting, I missed the fact that these were added in that tree, thanks for digging it out and submitting it.
I'd like some acks from some Android developers before I take these. Or, if it's easier for them to go through the security tree, that's fine with me as well.
thanks,
greg k-h
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