Re: [PATCH 2/5] security,overlayfs: Provide security hook for copy up of xattrs for overlay file

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 05:45:25PM -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:50 AM, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Provide a security hook which is called when xattrs of a file are being
> > copied up. This hook is called once for each xattr and one can either
> > accept or reject xattr. If 0 is returned, xattr will be copied up, if 1
> > is returned, xattr will not be copied up and if negative error code
> > is returned, copy up will be aborted.
> >
> > In SELinux, label of lower file is not copied up. File already has been
> > set with right label at the time of creation and we don't want to overwrite
> > that label.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c    |  8 ++++++++
> >  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/security.h  | 10 ++++++++++
> >  security/security.c       |  9 +++++++++
> >  security/selinux/hooks.c  | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  5 files changed, 54 insertions(+)
> 
> To continue the earlier feedback about mixing generic LSM hook
> definitions with the SELinux specific hook implementations - I prefer
> to see patchsets organized in the following manner:
> 
> [PATCH 1/X] - add new LSM hooks and the calls from the relevant
> subsystems, e.g.
> {security/security.c,include/linux/security.h,fs/overlayfs/*}
> [PATCH 2/X] - LSM specific hook implementation, e.g. security/selinux/*
> [PATCH n/X] - LSM specific hook implementation, e.g. security/smack/*

Ok, will do this way.

Vivek