Re: [PATCH 4/7] SLIM: secfs patch

[Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 16:30 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 10:57 -0700, Kylene Jo Hall wrote:
> > This patch provides the securityfs used by SLIM.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
> > --- 
> >  security/slim/slm_secfs.c |   73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 73 insertions(+)
> > 
> > --- linux-2.6.18/security/slim/slm_secfs.c	1969-12-31 16:00:00.000000000 -0800
> > +++ linux-2.6.17-working/security/slim/slm_secfs.c	2006-09-06 11:49:09.000000000 -0700
> > @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
> > +/*
> > + * SLIM securityfs support: debugging control files
> > + *
> > + * Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation
> > + * Author: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
> > + *	   Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
> > + *
> > + *      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > + *      it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> > + *      the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the License.
> > + */
> > +
> > +#include <asm/uaccess.h>
> > +#include <linux/config.h>
> > +#include <linux/module.h>
> > +#include <linux/kernel.h>
> > +#include <linux/security.h>
> > +#include <linux/debugfs.h>
> > +#include "slim.h"
> > +
> > +static struct dentry *slim_sec_dir, *slim_level;
> > +
> > +static ssize_t slm_read_level(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
> > +			      size_t buflen, loff_t *ppos)
> > +{
> > +	struct slm_tsec_data *cur_tsec = current->security;
> > +	ssize_t len;
> > +	char data[28]; 
> > +	if (is_kernel_thread(current))
> > +		len = snprintf(data, sizeof(data), "KERNEL\n");
> > +	else if (!cur_tsec)
> > +		len = snprintf(data, sizeof(data), "UNKNOWN\n");
> > +	else {
> > +		if (cur_tsec->iac_wx != cur_tsec->iac_r)
> > +			len = snprintf(data, sizeof(data), "GUARD wx:%s r:%s\n",
> > +				      slm_iac_str[cur_tsec->iac_wx],
> > +				      slm_iac_str[cur_tsec->iac_r]);
> > +		else
> > +			len = snprintf(data, sizeof(data), "%s\n",
> > +				      slm_iac_str[cur_tsec->iac_wx]);
> > +	}
> > +	return simple_read_from_buffer(buf, buflen, ppos, data, len);
> > +}
> 
> Why do you need this when you implement getprocattr and return the same
> data that way?
> 
True you can get the same info that way but we find it very useful to be
able to cat this file and get the level of the current process.


> > +
> > +static struct file_operations slm_level_ops = {
> > +	.read = slm_read_level,
> > +};
> > +
> > +int __init slm_init_secfs(void)
> > +{
> > +	if (!slim_enabled)
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> > +	slim_sec_dir = securityfs_create_dir("slim", NULL);
> > +	if (!slim_sec_dir || IS_ERR(slim_sec_dir))
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> > +	slim_level = securityfs_create_file("level", S_IRUGO,
> > +					    slim_sec_dir, NULL, &slm_level_ops);
> > +	if (!slim_level || IS_ERR(slim_level)) {
> > +		securityfs_remove(slim_sec_dir);
> > +		return -EFAULT;
> > +	}
> > +	return 0;
> > +}
> > +
> > +__initcall(slm_init_secfs);
> > +
> > +void __exit slm_cleanup_secfs(void)
> > +{
> > +	securityfs_remove(slim_level);
> > +	securityfs_remove(slim_sec_dir);
> > +}
> > +
> 

Thanks,
Kylie

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