linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

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Date:	Sun, 4 Nov 2007 15:23:06 +0200
From:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
To:	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	"Casey Schaufler" <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, akpm@...l.org,
	torvalds@...l.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

On 11/4/07, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Still to come:
> > >
> > >   - Final cleanup of smack_load_write and smack_cipso_write.
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > After agreeing with Casey on the "load" input grammar yesterday, here's
> > the final grammar and its parser (which needs more testing):
> >
> > A Smack Rule in an "egrep" format is:
> >
> > "^[:space:]*Subject[:space:]+Object[:space:]+[rwxaRWXA-]+[:space:]*\n"
> >
> > where Subject/Object strings are in the form:
> >
> > "^[^/[:space:][:cntrl:]]{1,SMK_MAXLEN}$"
>
> Can we avoid string parsers in the kernel?
>

I've suggested that at first, but (hoping not to misquote Al) Al viro
said that the parsing is simple enough and no need exists for a
user-space utility.

>
> > +static inline int isblank(char c)
> > +{
> > +     return (c == ' ' || c == '\t');
> > +}
>
> This sounds like enough for 'NAK'.
>

Would you please show the reason for the NAK so I can modify the code ?

Thank you,

>                                                 Pavel,
>                 who still thinks smack rules should be parsed
>                 in userspace and compiled into selinux rules...
>

-- 
Ahmed S. Darwish
Homepage: http://darwish.07.googlepages.com
Blog: http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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