Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2017 13:54:25 +1000 (AEST) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [kernel-hardening] [PATCH 0/6] LSM: Security module blob management |
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On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Matt Brown wrote:
> On 6/8/17 4:43 PM, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > Subject: [PATCH 0/6] LSM: Security module blob management > > > > This patch set moves management of security blobs out of > > the Linux security modules and into the security module > > infrastructure. This allows "major" security modules that > > use blobs to be stacked, just as "minor" modules that > > do not use blobs can be stacked today. It stops short of > > providing a safe interface for the Netlabel and SO_PEERSEC. > > As a result, any of the existing security modules may be > > used in combination except for SELinux and Smack. > > Very excited about this! I can definitely see use cases for special > purpose LSMs that require data blobs but do not replace things like > SELinux, SMACK or AppArmor. I have had a few ideas recently that would > not be possible under the current setup of one shared blob.
Please post details of these ideas once you have say a prototype working with Casey's patches.
-- James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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