Re: [PATCH v14 3/6] LSM: Explicit individual LSM associations

From: Paul Moore
Date: Thu Aug 01 2013 - 17:30:41 EST


On Thursday, August 01, 2013 11:52:14 AM Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 8/1/2013 11:35 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > Okay, so if I understand everything correctly, there are no new entries in
> > /proc relating specifically to NetLabel, XFRM, or Secmark; although there
> > are new LSM specific entries for the general /proc entries that exist
> > now. Yes?
>
> That's correct.
>
> There is /sys/kernel/security/present, which tells you which LSM is going to
> show up in /proc/.../attr/current.
>
> Should we have /sys/kernel/security/XFRM, /sys/kernel/security/secmark,
> /sys/kernel/security/NetLabel and /sys/kernel/security/SO_PEERCRED?

Maybe.

While they might be helpful, I'm not 100% certain they are needed and further
I'm not sure they are the "right" solution at this point. Any thoughts, both
for and against, are welcome.

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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