From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
selinux@vger.kernel.org, Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Micah Morton <mortonm@chromium.org>,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] selinux: treat atomic flags more carefully
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 06:45:43 +1100 (AEDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.2001080644500.575@namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200107133154.588958-2-omosnace@redhat.com>
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> The disabled/enforcing/initialized flags are all accessed concurrently
> by threads so use the appropriate accessors that ensure atomicity and
> document that it is expected.
>
> Use smp_load/acquire...() helpers (with memory barriers) for the
> initialized flag, since it gates access to the rest of the state
> structures.
>
> Note that the disabled flag is currently not used for anything other
> than avoiding double disable, but it will be used for bailing out of
> hooks once security_delete_hooks() is removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
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James Morris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-07 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 13:31 [PATCH 0/2] LSM: Drop security_delete_hooks() Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-07 13:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] selinux: treat atomic flags more carefully Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-07 14:45 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-07 18:09 ` Kees Cook
2020-01-07 19:45 ` James Morris [this message]
2020-01-10 20:22 ` Paul Moore
2020-01-10 20:21 ` Paul Moore
2020-01-07 13:31 ` [PATCH 2/2] security,selinux: get rid of security_delete_hooks() Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-07 14:47 ` [PATCH 2/2] security, selinux: " Stephen Smalley
2020-01-08 5:31 ` Paul Moore
2020-01-08 8:15 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-08 13:45 ` Paul Moore
2020-01-08 14:49 ` Stephen Smalley
2020-01-07 16:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] security,selinux: " Casey Schaufler
2020-01-07 18:10 ` Kees Cook
2020-01-07 19:59 ` James Morris
2020-01-08 8:21 ` Ondrej Mosnacek
2020-01-08 18:47 ` James Morris
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