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Commit 29cd6591 authored by Daniel Colascione's avatar Daniel Colascione Committed by Paul Moore
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selinux: teach SELinux about anonymous inodes



This change uses the anon_inodes and LSM infrastructure introduced in
the previous patches to give SELinux the ability to control
anonymous-inode files that are created using the new
anon_inode_getfd_secure() function.

A SELinux policy author detects and controls these anonymous inodes by
adding a name-based type_transition rule that assigns a new security
type to anonymous-inode files created in some domain. The name used
for the name-based transition is the name associated with the
anonymous inode for file listings --- e.g., "[userfaultfd]" or
"[perf_event]".

Example:

type uffd_t;
type_transition sysadm_t sysadm_t : anon_inode uffd_t "[userfaultfd]";
allow sysadm_t uffd_t:anon_inode { create };

(The next patch in this series is necessary for making userfaultfd
support this new interface.  The example above is just
for exposition.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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