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From: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@grid-net.com>
To: mtd <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Setting security XATTR on ubifs
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 16:36:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305934601.10340.12.camel@subodh-desktop> (raw)


we have implemented modifications to UBIFS to add support for SELinux
labeling. Function that created this XATTR is called
ubifs_init_security(), shown below.

Following example of how JFFS2 does extended attribute labeling, This
function is being called from 
ubifs_create(),ubifs_mkdir(), ubifs_mknod(), ubifs_symlink() (in
fs/ubifs/dir.c)

With this modification things work "mostly", I am able to label the file
system, but sometimes the file system is getting corrupted. I will
certainly post the patch once things work reliably. 

I don't _fully_ understand how ubifs is doing space management, hence
the immediate questions I have are:
1. What is the right point to add the XATTR to the UBIFS inode, after
the ubifs_new_inode() is done? Should ubifs_budget_space() be updated to
handle extra space needed by the XATTR.

2. In function below ui_mutex is being locked/unlocked while XATTR for
the file is updated. Is that required while updating the extended
attribute?

-Subodh Nijsure

static void ubifs_init_security(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode
*inode, struct inode *dir)
{
        int err;
        char *name;
        void *value = NULL;
        size_t len = 0;
        struct ubifs_inode *dir_ui = ubifs_inode(dir);
        mutex_lock(&dir_ui->ui_mutex);
        err = security_inode_init_security(inode, dir, &name, &value,
&len);
        if (err) {
                if (err == -EOPNOTSUPP)
                        return;
                ubifs_err("unable to retrieve security context, error %
d", err);
                mutex_unlock(&dir_ui->ui_mutex);
                return;
        }
        err = ubifs_setxattr(dentry, name, value, len, 0);
        if (err)
                ubifs_err("unable to set security context (extended
attribute), err %d",err);
        kfree(name);
        if ( value )
                kfree(value);
        mutex_unlock(&dir_ui->ui_mutex);
}

             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-20 23:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-20 23:36 Subodh Nijsure [this message]
2011-05-23 14:57 ` Setting security XATTR on ubifs Artem Bityutskiy
     [not found]   ` <C7A5B00EFC707A46AB67997D02152167010F582C@mx1.grid-net.com>
2011-05-30  9:12     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2011-06-07 11:07       ` Artem Bityutskiy

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