linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]

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Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:56:20 +0000
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	dhowells@...hat.com, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@...hat.com>,
	casey@...aufler-ca.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/28] SECURITY: Allow kernel services to override LSM settings for task actions [try #2]

Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> Right, the latter is reasonable.
> Requires adding the class and permission definition to
> policy/flask/security_classes and policy/flask/access_vectors and then
> regenerating the kernel headers from those files, ala:
>   svn co http://oss.tresys.com/repos/refpolicy/trunk refpolicy
>   cd refpolicy/policy/flask
>   vi security_classes access_vectors
>   <add new class to end>
>   make
>   make LINUX_D=/path/to/linux-2.6 tokern

Does this require rebuilding and updating all the SELinux rpms to know about
the new class?

David
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