Re: [patch 0/4] MAP_NOZERO v2 - VM_NOZERO/MAP_NOZERO early summer madness

Davide Libenzi
2007-07-02T22:46:18Z

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> On 7/2/07, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> > That should not happen. The default SELinux configuration
> > in Fedora (and Debian?) runs a few daemons in their own
> > restricted modes and has most of the system running in
> > unconfined_t, including the majority of user programs.
>
> This is the state as of F7. This will change hopefully soon.
> Programs like firefox run by normal users must be confined, to. Any
> tests using security must be fast, it's not something which is done
> only for a few apps.

The strong requirement would be that the cookie is not a bit longer than
sizeof(unsigned long).
For the "equality" check, this better be "==", although it could be
abstracted in a function/macro that SeLinux implements in a different way.
But this "equality" check is done a page-fault time, so it better be
pretty quick (otherwise if they bloat that path, they probably be better
of not using MAP_NOZERO at all).

- Davide