Re: [RFC] cgroups: implement device whitelist lsm (v2)

[James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> Quoting James Morris (jmorris@namei.org):
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > 
> > > True, but while this change simplifies the code a bit, the semantics
> > > seem more muddled - devcg will be enforcing when CONFIG_CGROUP_DEV=y
> > > and:
> > > 
> > > 	SECURITY=n or
> > > 	rootplug is enabled
> > > 	capabilities is enabled
> > > 	smack is enabled
> > > 	selinux+capabilities is enabled
> > 
> > Well, this is how real systems are going to be deployed.
> 
> Sorry, do you mean with capabilities?

Yes.

All Fedora, RHEL, CentOS etc. ship with SELinux+capabilities.  I can't 
imagine not enabling them on other kernels.

> > It becomes confusing, IMHO, if you have to change which secondary LSM you 
> > stack with SELinux to enable a cgroup feature.
> 
> So you're saying selinux without capabilities should still be able to
> use dev_cgroup?  (Just making sure I understand right)

Nope, SELinux always stacks with capabilities, so havng the cgroup hooks 
in capabilities makes sense (rather than having us change the secondary 
stacking LSM just to enable a feature).





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James Morris
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