[PATCH 5/5] sysctl: Hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux.

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a
sysctl file, just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they
are redundant on the standard VFS constructs.  Since it is difficult
to compute the security labels on the standard VFS constructs we just
mark the sysctl inodes in proc private so selinux won't even bother
with them.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index bb16a1e..20e8cbb 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct inode *dir, struct ctl_table *ta
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
 	inode->i_op = &proc_sys_inode_operations;
 	inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_file_operations;
+	inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE; /* tell selinux to ignore this inode */
 	proc_sys_refresh_inode(inode, table);
 out:
 	return inode;
-- 
1.4.4.1.g278f

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