Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] Smack namespace

Stephen Smalley
2015-05-27T13:34:45Z

On 05/27/2015 05:36 AM, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
> On wto, 2015-05-26 at 10:35 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
>> On 05/25/2015 08:32 AM, Lukasz Pawelczyk wrote:
>>> --- Usage ---
>>>
>>> Smack namespace is written using LSM hooks inside user namespace. That
>>> means it's connected to it.
>>>
>>> To create a new Smack namespace you need to unshare() user namespace
>>> as usual. If that is all you do though, than there is no difference to
>>> what is now. To activate the Smack namespace you need to fill the
>>> labels' map. It is in a file /proc/$PID/smack_map.
>>
>> This should be /proc/$PID/attr/label_map or similar, modeled after the
>> existing /proc/$PID/attr/current and similar nodes. Then it isn't
>> module-specific and can be reused for other modules.
>
> To make this generic I'll have to introduce new LSH hooks to handle this
> file (much like /proc/$PID/attr/current).
> I take this is what you had in mind.

We don't have separate hooks for the
/proc/self/attr/{current,exec,fscreate,keycreate,socketcreate,prev}
nodes. Just one hook that passes the attribute name, and then the
security hook implementation can distinguish on that.