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Message-ID: <20100803170749.GI3948@outflux.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 10:07:49 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
To: Christian Stroetmann <stroetmann@...olinux.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-security-module <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Preview of changes to the Security susbystem for 2.6.36
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 07:33:26PM +0200, Christian Stroetmann wrote:
> structure of the other LSMs, especially if it becomes large and in
> this way important to be followed by only growing it with
> functionalities taken from other security packages. If you say that
> the way of the Yama LSM is the right way to do it in general, then
> we don't need a new LSM like Yama, but a new LSM architecture.
Well, trying to get these protections into mainline does seem to be
demonstrating a need for some kind of security architecture that isn't LSM.
As for chaining, I was considering introducing basic "first non-zero return
code wins" chain of LSMs, but the chain could include only up to 1 LSM that
implements the proc attr hook (though the prctl handler isn't non-zero but
rather non-ENOSYS).
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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