Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation,pathname matching

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On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Sean wrote:


so are you suggesting that SELinux would call out to userspace for every
file open to get the label for that file?



No, i'm not.  You must already have a kernel function in the current
implementation of AA that decides the proper policy for each path.  Why
not use it  to feed labels into SELinux.


if it was this easy just have SELinux set the label == path
you first need to figure out what the path is. right now this can't be done, the AA paches provide this capability.
second, the AA policies aren't based just on the path, they are based on the program accessing the path, then the path. you can have two different policies for two different programs accessing the same path, but for most programs (although, not nessasarily most activity) there will be no policy, and therefor no need to check the path.
but even if you did these things, why would it be an advantage to use a mechanism to create a dummy label and pass it off to different code rather then just decideing at that point? once the AA code knows what the policy for this path is for this program (which it would need to know to set the label) how is it a win to pass this off to another chunk of code? you would also need to make sure that the SELinux code didn't try to cache the label for future use either, becouse in the future the access may be from another program and so the policy that's needed is different. 

David Lang
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