Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]

[Casey Schaufler]

--- David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...
> 
> How about I just stick the context in /etc/cachefilesd.conf as a textual
> configuration item and have the daemon pass that as a string to the
> cachefiles
> kernel module, which can then ask LSM if it's valid to set this context as an
> override, given the daemon's own security context?  That seems entirely
> reasonable to me.

Works for Smack. I can't say definitively, but I think it will
work for SELinux. Beyond that and we're into the fuzzy bit of the
LSM.


Casey Schaufler
casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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