LSM: Switch to lists of hooks
authorCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Sat, 2 May 2015 22:11:42 +0000 (15:11 -0700)
committerJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Tue, 12 May 2015 05:00:41 +0000 (15:00 +1000)
commitb1d9e6b0646d0e5ee5d9050bd236b6c65d66faef
treebefe73902cf0797dabb704cf6688b3fe335fc19e
parente20b043a6902ecb61c2c84355c3bae5149f391db
LSM: Switch to lists of hooks

Instead of using a vector of security operations
with explicit, special case stacking of the capability
and yama hooks use lists of hooks with capability and
yama hooks included as appropriate.

The security_operations structure is no longer required.
Instead, there is a union of the function pointers that
allows all the hooks lists to use a common mechanism for
list management while retaining typing. Each module
supplies an array describing the hooks it provides instead
of a sparsely populated security_operations structure.
The description includes the element that gets put on
the hook list, avoiding the issues surrounding individual
element allocation.

The method for registering security modules is changed to
reflect the information available. The method for removing
a module, currently only used by SELinux, has also changed.
It should be generic now, however if there are potential
race conditions based on ordering of hook removal that needs
to be addressed by the calling module.

The security hooks are called from the lists and the first
failure is returned.

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
13 files changed:
include/linux/lsm_hooks.h
include/linux/security.h
security/Makefile
security/apparmor/domain.c
security/apparmor/lsm.c
security/commoncap.c
security/security.c
security/selinux/hooks.c
security/smack/smack.h
security/smack/smack_lsm.c
security/smack/smackfs.c
security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
security/yama/yama_lsm.c