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| author | Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org> | 2026-09-02 15:31:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> | 2026-09-04 21:37:00 -0700 |
| commit | 3a2c4d55e32ad65efebdb6de44eef3bfa08bb49d (patch) | |
| tree | c65086f9bdcd48c6360fb7cb4598bca084da1f32 /Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst | |
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treewide: refresh kmalloc_obj() conversionsgrafted
This is another run of the Coccinelle script for converting kmalloc()
family of allocations to kmalloc_obj() via the existing rules in
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci
This catches both the set of kmalloc() uses added since the first
kmalloc_obj() conversions in v7.0 and adds a large group missed in the
first pass due to Coccinelle not interacting well with the cleanup.h
scoped_...() family of macros[1]. I worked around this with spatch's
"--macro-file" argument to a file with all the scoped_...() macros mapped
to Coccinelle's YACFE_ITERATOR[2] as that was the closest viable control
flow indicator I could find.
Build tested allmodconfig on x86, arm64, arm, loongarch, mips, powerpc,
riscv, and s390 with no new warnings.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202609021314.8A9C0B8@keescook/ [1]
Link: https://github.com/coccinelle/coccinelle/blob/master/standard.h [2]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees+treewide@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a76da3738 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> +.. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation + +===================================== +Linux Security Modules +===================================== + +:Author: Casey Schaufler +:Date: July 2023 + +Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement +additional access controls to the Linux security policies. + +The various security modules may support any of these attributes: + +``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the +process. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``. +This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules. +Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``. + +``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current image was executed. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``. + +``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating file system objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating key objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the +current security context was set. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``. +This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules. +AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``. + +``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when +creating socket objects. +The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``. +This is supported by the SELinux security module. + +Kernel interface +================ + +Set a security attribute of the current process +----------------------------------------------- + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr + +Get the specified security attributes of the current process +------------------------------------------------------------ + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr + +.. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c + :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules + +Additional documentation +======================== + +* Documentation/security/lsm.rst +* Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst |
