Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] lsm: Improve LSM hooks documentation

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Tue Nov 29 2022 - 11:55:10 EST


On 11/28/2022 6:42 AM, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxx>

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>
> The recent discussion about return values from LSM hooks, available here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221115175652.3836811-1-roberto.sassu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> motivated revisiting the documentation in include/linux/lsm_hooks.h, to
> ensure that it is complete and accurate. It was also a good occasion to fix
> discovered formatting issues.
>
> Changelog:
>
> v1 (security: Ensure LSMs return expected values):
> - A positive value, not only 1 can cause cap_set_admin to be set when
> calling __vm_enough_memory() (reported by Paul)
> - Improve description of the vm_enough_memory hook
> - Remove documentation of the sb_add_mnt_opt hook, as it was removed
> (reported by Paul)
> - Add more periods in the parameters description
> - Adjust mmap_addr and mmap_file semicolon
> - Move description of gfp parameter of xfrm_policy_alloc_security together
> with the others
> - Add missing return value description for binder_transaction,
> binder_transfer_binder, binder_transfer_file, quotactl and quota_on
> - Improve return value description for sb_eat_lsm_opts, sb_show_options,
> dentry_init_security, dentry_create_files_as and sctp_assoc_established
>
> Roberto Sassu (2):
> lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook
> lsm: Add/fix return values in lsm_hooks.h and fix formatting
>
> include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 227 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 143 insertions(+), 84 deletions(-)
>