linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] LSM: security module information improvements

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Message-ID: <5e40bbb4-1955-8432-e12a-690c924ccd5d@canonical.com>
Date:   Thu, 27 Oct 2016 15:57:21 -0700
From:   John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:     LSM <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
        Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp>,
        LKLM <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] LSM: security module information improvements

On 10/27/2016 03:32 PM, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> 
>> Create interfaces that make it possible to deal with process
>> attributes in the face of multiple "major" security modules.
> 
> We don't have support for multiple major modules currently (perhaps ever), 
> so I'm not merging infrastructure which is only useful for them.
> 
>>
>> Patch 1/3 adds /sys/kernel/security/lsm, which provides
>> a list of the active security modules on the system.
>>
>> 	$ cat /sys/kernel/security/lsm
>> 	capability,yama,loadpin,smack
> 
> This may make sense on its own.  Has anyone requested this, or is likely 
> to adopt it into a distro?
> 
> 
This is quite useful and Ubuntu will likely adopt it for the 17.04 release