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2007-08-16SELinux: correct error code in selinux_audit_rule_initSteve G
Corrects an error code so that it is valid to pass to userspace. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <linux_4ever@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@halo.namei>
2007-07-31Typo fixes errror -> errorGabriel Craciunescu
Typo fixes errror -> error Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-23SELinux: fix memory leak in security_netlbl_cache_add()Jesper Juhl
Fix memory leak in security_netlbl_cache_add() Note: The Coverity checker gets credit for spotting this one. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
2007-07-11SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checksStephen Smalley
In security_get_user_sids, move the transition permission checks outside of the section holding the policy rdlock, and use the AVC to perform the checks, calling cond_resched after each one. These changes should allow preemption between the individual checks and enable caching of the results. It may however increase the overall time spent in the function in some cases, particularly in the cache miss case. The long term fix will be to take much of this logic to userspace by exporting additional state via selinuxfs, and ultimately deprecating and eliminating this interface from the kernel. Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the ↵Christopher J. PeBenito
running policy Add support to the SELinux security server for obtaining a list of classes, and for obtaining a list of permissions for a specified class. Signed-off-by: Christopher J. PeBenito <cpebenito@tresys.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26selinux: preserve boolean values across policy reloadsStephen Smalley
At present, the userland policy loading code has to go through contortions to preserve boolean values across policy reloads, and cannot do so atomically. As this is what we always want to do for reloads, let the kernel preserve them instead. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26selinux: export initial SID contexts via selinuxfsJames Carter
Make the initial SID contexts accessible to userspace via selinuxfs. An initial use of this support will be to make the unlabeled context available to libselinux for use for invalidated userspace SIDs. Signed-off-by: James Carter <jwcart2@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26selinux: remove userland security class and permission definitionsStephen Smalley
Remove userland security class and permission definitions from the kernel as the kernel only needs to use and validate its own class and permission definitions and userland definitions may change. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26SELinux: move security_skb_extlbl_sid() out of the security serverPaul Moore
As suggested, move the security_skb_extlbl_sid() function out of the security server and into the SELinux hooks file. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26SELinux: rename selinux_netlabel.h to netlabel.hPaul Moore
In the beginning I named the file selinux_netlabel.h to avoid potential namespace colisions. However, over time I have realized that there are several other similar cases of multiple header files with the same name so I'm changing the name to something which better fits with existing naming conventions. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-04-26SELinux: extract the NetLabel SELinux support from the security serverPaul Moore
Up until this patch the functions which have provided NetLabel support to SELinux have been integrated into the SELinux security server, which for various reasons is not really ideal. This patch makes an effort to extract as much of the NetLabel support from the security server as possibile and move it into it's own file within the SELinux directory structure. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-02-26Always initialize scontext and scontext_lenStephen Smalley
Always initialize *scontext and *scontext_len in security_sid_to_context. (via http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/23/135) Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-01-26[SELINUX]: Fix 2.6.20-rc6 build when no xfrmVenkat Yekkirala
This patch is an incremental fix to the flow_cache_genid patch for selinux that breaks the build of 2.6.20-rc6 when xfrm is not configured. Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-23[SELINUX]: increment flow cache genidVenkat Yekkirala
Currently, old flow cache entries remain valid even after a reload of SELinux policy. This patch increments the flow cache generation id on policy (re)loads so that flow cache entries are revalidated as needed. Thanks to Herbet Xu for pointing this out. See: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=116841378704536&w=2 There's also a general issue as well as a solution proposed by David Miller for when flow_cache_genid wraps. I might be submitting a separate patch for that later. I request that this be applied to 2.6.20 since it's a security relevant fix. Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-01-09NetLabel: correct locking in selinux_netlbl_socket_setsid()Paul Moore
The spinlock protecting the update of the "sksec->nlbl_state" variable is not currently softirq safe which can lead to problems. This patch fixes this by changing the spin_{un}lock() functions into spin_{un}lock_bh() functions. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-01-08selinux: Delete mls_copy_contextVenkat Yekkirala
This deletes mls_copy_context() in favor of mls_context_cpy() and replaces mls_scopy_context() with mls_context_cpy_low(). Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-01-02[PATCH] selinux: fix selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() lockingParag Warudkar
do not call a sleeping lock API in an RCU read section. lock_sock_nested can sleep, its BH counterpart doesn't. selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() needs to use the BH counterpart unconditionally. Compile tested. From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> added BH disabling, because this function can be called from non-atomic contexts too, so a naked bh_lock_sock() would be deadlock-prone. Boot-tested the resulting kernel. Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <paragw@paragw.zapto.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-02NetLabel: convert to an extensibile/sparse category bitmapPaul Moore
The original NetLabel category bitmap was a straight char bitmap which worked fine for the initial release as it only supported 240 bits due to limitations in the CIPSO restricted bitmap tag (tag type 0x01). This patch converts that straight char bitmap into an extensibile/sparse bitmap in order to lay the foundation for other CIPSO tag types and protocols. This patch also has a nice side effect in that all of the security attributes passed by NetLabel into the LSM are now in a format which is in the host's native byte/bit ordering which makes the LSM specific code much simpler; look at the changes in security/selinux/ss/ebitmap.c as an example. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-12-02SELinux: peer secid consolidation for external network labelingPaul Moore
Now that labeled IPsec makes use of the peer_sid field in the sk_security_struct we can remove a lot of the special cases between labeled IPsec and NetLabel. In addition, create a new function, security_skb_extlbl_sid(), which we can use in several places to get the security context of the packet's external label which allows us to further simplify the code in a few places. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-12-02NetLabel: SELinux cleanupsPaul Moore
This patch does a lot of cleanup in the SELinux NetLabel support code. A summary of the changes include: * Use RCU locking for the NetLabel state variable in the skk_security_struct instead of using the inode_security_struct mutex. * Remove unnecessary parameters in selinux_netlbl_socket_post_create(). * Rename selinux_netlbl_sk_clone_security() to selinux_netlbl_sk_security_clone() to better fit the other NetLabel sk_security functions. * Improvements to selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() to help reduce the cost of the common case. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-12-02NetLabel: make netlbl_lsm_secattr struct easier/quicker to understandPaul Moore
The existing netlbl_lsm_secattr struct required the LSM to check all of the fields to determine if any security attributes were present resulting in a lot of work in the common case of no attributes. This patch adds a 'flags' field which is used to indicate which attributes are present in the structure; this should allow the LSM to do a quick comparison to determine if the structure holds any security attributes. Example: if (netlbl_lsm_secattr->flags) /* security attributes present */ else /* NO security attributes present */ Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-11-28SELinux: validate kernel object classes and permissionsChad Sellers
This is a new object class and permission validation scheme that validates against the defined kernel headers. This scheme allows extra classes and permissions that do not conflict with the kernel definitions to be added to the policy. This validation is now done for all policy loads, not just subsequent loads after the first policy load. The implementation walks the three structrures containing the defined object class and permission values and ensures their values are the same in the policy being loaded. This includes verifying the object classes themselves, the permissions they contain, and the permissions they inherit from commons. Classes or permissions that are present in the kernel but missing from the policy cause a warning (printed to KERN_INFO) to be printed, but do not stop the policy from loading, emulating current behavior. Any other inconsistencies cause the load to fail. Signed-off-by: Chad Sellers <csellers@tresys.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-11-28SELinux: remove current object class and permission validation mechanismChad Sellers
Removes the current SELinux object class and permission validation code, as the current code makes it impossible to change or remove object classes and permissions on a running system. Additionally, the current code does not actually validate that the classes and permissions are correct, but instead merely validates that they do not change between policy reloads. Signed-off-by: Chad Sellers <csellers@tresys.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-10-30[NetLabel]: protect the CIPSOv4 socket option from setsockopt()Paul Moore
This patch makes two changes to protect applications from either removing or tampering with the CIPSOv4 IP option on a socket. The first is the requirement that applications have the CAP_NET_RAW capability to set an IPOPT_CIPSO option on a socket; this prevents untrusted applications from setting their own CIPSOv4 security attributes on the packets they send. The second change is to SELinux and it prevents applications from setting any IPv4 options when there is an IPOPT_CIPSO option already present on the socket; this prevents applications from removing CIPSOv4 security attributes from the packets they send. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-10-15NetLabel: better error handling involving mls_export_cat()Paul Moore
Upon inspection it looked like the error handling for mls_export_cat() was rather poor. This patch addresses this by NULL'ing out kfree()'d pointers before returning and checking the return value of the function everywhere it is called. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-10-11NetLabel: use SECINITSID_UNLABELED for a base SIDpaul.moore@hp.com
This patch changes NetLabel to use SECINITSID_UNLABLELED as it's source of SELinux type information when generating a NetLabel context. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-10-11NetLabel: fix a cache race conditionpaul.moore@hp.com
Testing revealed a problem with the NetLabel cache where a cached entry could be freed while in use by the LSM layer causing an oops and other problems. This patch fixes that problem by introducing a reference counter to the cache entry so that it is only freed when it is no longer in use. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] SELinux: change isec semaphore to a mutexEric Paris
This patch converts the remaining isec->sem into a mutex. Very similar locking is provided as before only in the faster smaller mutex rather than a semaphore. An out_unlock path is introduced rather than the conditional unlocking found in the original code. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] selinux: replace ctxid with sid in selinux_audit_rule_match interfaceStephen Smalley
Replace ctxid with sid in selinux_audit_rule_match interface for consistency with other interfaces. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25[NetLabel]: change the SELinux permissionsPaul Moore
Change NetLabel to use the 'recvfrom' socket permission and the SECINITSID_NETMSG SELinux SID as the NetLabel base SID for incoming packets. This patch effectively makes the old, and currently unused, SELinux NETMSG permissions NetLabel permissions. Signed-of-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-25[NetLabel]: correct improper handling of non-NetLabel peer contextsPaul Moore
Fix a problem where NetLabel would always set the value of sk_security_struct->peer_sid in selinux_netlbl_sock_graft() to the context of the socket, causing problems when users would query the context of the connection. This patch fixes this so that the value in sk_security_struct->peer_sid is only set when the connection is NetLabel based, otherwise the value is untouched. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[SELINUX]: Fix bug in security_sid_mls_copyVenkat Yekkirala
The following fixes a bug where random mem is being tampered with in the non-mls case; encountered by Jashua Brindle on a gentoo box. Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-09-22[NetLabel]: uninline selinux_netlbl_inode_permission()Paul Moore
Uninline the selinux_netlbl_inode_permission() at the request of Andrew Morton. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NetLabel]: Comment corrections.Paul Moore
Fix some incorrect comments. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NetLabel]: Correctly initialize the NetLabel fields.Paul Moore
Fix a problem where the NetLabel specific fields of the sk_security_struct structure were not being initialized early enough in some cases. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[NetLabel]: SELinux supportVenkat Yekkirala
Add NetLabel support to the SELinux LSM and modify the socket_post_create() LSM hook to return an error code. The most significant part of this patch is the addition of NetLabel hooks into the following SELinux LSM hooks: * selinux_file_permission() * selinux_socket_sendmsg() * selinux_socket_post_create() * selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb() * selinux_socket_getpeersec_stream() * selinux_socket_getpeersec_dgram() * selinux_sock_graft() * selinux_inet_conn_request() The basic reasoning behind this patch is that outgoing packets are "NetLabel'd" by labeling their socket and the NetLabel security attributes are checked via the additional hook in selinux_socket_sock_rcv_skb(). NetLabel itself is only a labeling mechanism, similar to filesystem extended attributes, it is up to the SELinux enforcement mechanism to perform the actual access checks. In addition to the changes outlined above this patch also includes some changes to the extended bitmap (ebitmap) and multi-level security (mls) code to import and export SELinux TE/MLS attributes into and out of NetLabel. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22[MLSXFRM]: Define new SELinux service routineVenkat Yekkirala
This defines a routine that combines the Type Enforcement portion of one sid with the MLS portion from the other sid to arrive at a new sid. This would be used to define a sid for a security association that is to be negotiated by IKE as well as for determing the sid for open requests and connection-oriented child sockets. Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-07-31[PATCH] selinux: fix bug in security_compute_sidVenkat Yekkirala
Initializes newcontext sooner to allow for its destruction in all cases. Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-01[PATCH] audit: support for object context filtersDarrel Goeddel
This patch introduces object audit filters based on the elements of the SELinux context. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> kernel/auditfilter.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/auditsc.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ security/selinux/ss/services.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-07-01[PATCH] audit: rename AUDIT_SE_* constantsDarrel Goeddel
This patch renames some audit constant definitions and adds additional definitions used by the following patch. The renaming avoids ambiguity with respect to the new definitions. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> include/linux/audit.h | 15 ++++++++---- kernel/auditfilter.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- kernel/auditsc.c | 10 ++++---- security/selinux/ss/services.c | 32 +++++++++++++------------- 4 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-06-20[PATCH] fix se_sen audit filterDarrel Goeddel
Fix a broken comparison that causes the process clearance to be checked for both se_clr and se_sen audit filters. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-15[PATCH] selinux: check for failed kmalloc in security_sid_to_context()Serge E. Hallyn
Check for NULL kmalloc return value before writing to it. Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-01[PATCH] support for context based audit filteringDarrel Goeddel
The following patch provides selinux interfaces that will allow the audit system to perform filtering based on the process context (user, role, type, sensitivity, and clearance). These interfaces will allow the selinux module to perform efficient matches based on lower level selinux constructs, rather than relying on context retrievals and string comparisons within the audit module. It also allows for dominance checks on the mls portion of the contexts that are impossible with only string comparisons. Signed-off-by: Darrel Goeddel <dgoeddel@trustedcs.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-03-25Merge branch 'audit.b3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current * 'audit.b3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current: (22 commits) [PATCH] fix audit_init failure path [PATCH] EXPORT_SYMBOL patch for audit_log, audit_log_start, audit_log_end and audit_format [PATCH] sem2mutex: audit_netlink_sem [PATCH] simplify audit_free() locking [PATCH] Fix audit operators [PATCH] promiscuous mode [PATCH] Add tty to syscall audit records [PATCH] add/remove rule update [PATCH] audit string fields interface + consumer [PATCH] SE Linux audit events [PATCH] Minor cosmetic cleanups to the code moved into auditfilter.c [PATCH] Fix audit record filtering with !CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL [PATCH] Fix IA64 success/failure indication in syscall auditing. [PATCH] Miscellaneous bug and warning fixes [PATCH] Capture selinux subject/object context information. [PATCH] Exclude messages by message type [PATCH] Collect more inode information during syscall processing. [PATCH] Pass dentry, not just name, in fsnotify creation hooks. [PATCH] Define new range of userspace messages. [PATCH] Filter rule comparators ... Fixed trivial conflict in security/selinux/hooks.c
2006-03-22[PATCH] sem2mutex: security/Ingo Molnar
Semaphore to mutex conversion. The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated automatically via a script as well. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-20[PATCH] SE Linux audit eventsSteve Grubb
Attached is a patch that hardwires important SE Linux events to the audit system. Please Apply. Signed-off-by: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] selinux: Remove unneeded k[cm]alloc() return value castsJesper Juhl
Remove redundant casts of k*alloc() return values in security/selinux/ss/services.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30[PATCH] SELinux: convert to kzallocJames Morris
This patch converts SELinux code from kmalloc/memset to the new kazalloc unction. On i386, this results in a text saving of over 1K. Before: text data bss dec hex filename 86319 4642 15236 106197 19ed5 security/selinux/built-in.o After: text data bss dec hex filename 85278 4642 15236 105156 19ac4 security/selinux/built-in.o Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/audit-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-05[PATCH] selinux: Reduce memory use by avtabStephen Smalley
This patch improves memory use by SELinux by both reducing the avtab node size and reducing the number of avtab nodes. The memory savings are substantial, e.g. on a 64-bit system after boot, James Morris reported the following data for the targeted and strict policies: #objs objsize kernmem Targeted: Before: 237888 40 9.1MB After: 19968 24 468KB Strict: Before: 571680 40 21.81MB After: 221052 24 5.06MB The improvement in memory use comes at a cost in the speed of security server computations of access vectors, but these computations are only required on AVC cache misses, and performance measurements by James Morris using a number of benchmarks have shown that the change does not cause any significant degradation. Note that a rebuilt policy via an updated policy toolchain (libsepol/checkpolicy) is required in order to gain the full benefits of this patch, although some memory savings benefits are immediately applied even to older policies (in particular, the reduction in avtab node size). Sources for the updated toolchain are presently available from the sourceforge CVS tree (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21266), and tarballs are available from http://www.flux.utah.edu/~sds. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>