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| author | Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com> | 2026-09-03 10:43:25 -0500 |
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| committer | Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> | 2026-09-10 18:05:43 -0700 |
| commit | 27600805e62f800bacf990354632eae4e487d34c (patch) | |
| tree | e8aec0ddfaa0bc264d79af632e3de3f1b75ae4c8 /Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst | |
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x86/amd_node: Fix PCI device reference counting in amd_smn_init()grafted
The local "root" pointer is a temporary variable used during the device
search. Therefore, refcount related to the search iterators should be cleaned
up after the search is complete.
Use the __free() cleanup macro to ensure the refcount is decremented when the
temporary pointer goes out of scope.
Additionally, increment the refcount when caching a root pointer. This ensures
the in-use refcount is separate from the temporary search refcounting.
Finally, drop the redundant "root = NULL" before the second search loop. The
pci_get_class() iterator always decrements the refcount of its "from"
argument, so the first loop can only fall through with "root" already NULL.
Fixes: 0a4b61d9c2e4 ("x86/amd_node: Fix AMD root device caching")
Closes: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260806160159.230453-1-jason.andryuk%40amd.com
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Yazen Ghannam <yazen.ghannam@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260903154325.74343-1-yazen.ghannam@amd.com
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b44ef68f6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/LSM/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +=========================== +Linux Security Module Usage +=========================== + +The Linux Security Module (LSM) framework provides a mechanism for +various security checks to be hooked by new kernel extensions. The name +"module" is a bit of a misnomer since these extensions are not actually +loadable kernel modules. Instead, they are selectable at build-time via +CONFIG_DEFAULT_SECURITY and can be overridden at boot-time via the +``"security=..."`` kernel command line argument, in the case where multiple +LSMs were built into a given kernel. + +The primary users of the LSM interface are Mandatory Access Control +(MAC) extensions which provide a comprehensive security policy. Examples +include SELinux, Smack, Tomoyo, and AppArmor. In addition to the larger +MAC extensions, other extensions can be built using the LSM to provide +specific changes to system operation when these tweaks are not available +in the core functionality of Linux itself. + +The Linux capabilities modules will always be included. This may be +followed by any number of "minor" modules and at most one "major" module. +For more details on capabilities, see ``capabilities(7)`` in the Linux +man-pages project. + +A list of the active security modules can be found by reading +``/sys/kernel/security/lsm``. This is a comma separated list, and +will always include the capability module. The list reflects the +order in which checks are made. The capability module will always +be first, followed by any "minor" modules (e.g. Yama) and then +the one "major" module (e.g. SELinux) if there is one configured. + +Process attributes associated with "major" security modules should +be accessed and maintained using the special files in ``/proc/.../attr``. +A security module may maintain a module specific subdirectory there, +named after the module. ``/proc/.../attr/smack`` is provided by the Smack +security module and contains all its special files. The files directly +in ``/proc/.../attr`` remain as legacy interfaces for modules that provide +subdirectories. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + apparmor + LoadPin + SELinux + Smack + tomoyo + Yama + SafeSetID + ipe + landlock |
