I am adding a new hook to provide the functionality that Casey
suggested. It takes an inode, context, contextlen and sets it in the
LSM. The question is that since there is a need to be able to set
in-core, on-disk, or both; should these be two separate hooks? or should
we make the hook take a flag that has in-core, and ondisk and it can be
masked together for both?

Dave

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:11 -0500, David P. Quigley wrote:
> Before the inode_xattr_getsecurity call was removed the caller would
> concatenate the security namespace prefix and the suffix provided by the lsm to
> obtain the security xattr. This hook provides the functionality to obtain the full
> LSM xattr name. The patch also provides implementations for the dummy security
> module and SELinux. This method is used instead of restoring the old method
> since it only requires an offset into the returned pointer to obtain the
> suffix. This approach is more efficient than concatenating the security xattr
> namespace string with the suffix to get a usable string.
>
> Signed-off-by: David P. Quigley <[email protected]>
> ---
> include/linux/security.h | 8 ++++++++
> security/dummy.c | 6 ++++++
> security/security.c | 6 ++++++
> security/selinux/hooks.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
> index fe52cde..c80bee4 100644
> --- a/include/linux/security.h
> +++ b/include/linux/security.h
> @@ -1394,6 +1394,7 @@ struct security_operations {
> int (*secid_to_secctx)(u32 secid, char **secdata, u32 *seclen);
> int (*secctx_to_secid)(char *secdata, u32 seclen, u32 *secid);
> void (*release_secctx)(char *secdata, u32 seclen);
> + const char *(*maclabel_getname) (void);
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
> int (*unix_stream_connect) (struct socket * sock,
> @@ -1633,6 +1634,7 @@ int security_netlink_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, int cap);
> int security_secid_to_secctx(u32 secid, char **secdata, u32 *seclen);
> int security_secctx_to_secid(char *secdata, u32 seclen, u32 *secid);
> void security_release_secctx(char *secdata, u32 seclen);
> +const char *security_maclabel_getname(void);
>
> #else /* CONFIG_SECURITY */
>
> @@ -2316,6 +2318,12 @@ static inline int security_secctx_to_secid(char *secdata,
> static inline void security_release_secctx(char *secdata, u32 seclen)
> {
> }
> +
> +static inline const char *security_maclabel_getname(void)
> +{
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> #endif /* CONFIG_SECURITY */
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
> diff --git a/security/dummy.c b/security/dummy.c
> index 649326b..928ef41 100644
> --- a/security/dummy.c
> +++ b/security/dummy.c
> @@ -960,6 +960,11 @@ static void dummy_release_secctx(char *secdata, u32 seclen)
> {
> }
>
> +static const char *dummy_maclabel_getname(void)
> +{
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
> static inline int dummy_key_alloc(struct key *key, struct task_struct *ctx,
> unsigned long flags)
> @@ -1118,6 +1123,7 @@ void security_fixup_ops (struct security_operations *ops)
> set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, secid_to_secctx);
> set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, secctx_to_secid);
> set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, release_secctx);
> + set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, maclabel_getname);
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
> set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, unix_stream_connect);
> set_to_dummy_if_null(ops, unix_may_send);
> diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c
> index d15e56c..1a84eb1 100644
> --- a/security/security.c
> +++ b/security/security.c
> @@ -845,6 +845,12 @@ void security_release_secctx(char *secdata, u32 seclen)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_release_secctx);
>
> +const char *security_maclabel_getname(void)
> +{
> + return security_ops->maclabel_getname();
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(security_maclabel_getname);
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK
>
> int security_unix_stream_connect(struct socket *sock, struct socket *other,
> diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> index 75c2e99..e7fc9c9 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
> @@ -5163,6 +5163,11 @@ static void selinux_release_secctx(char *secdata, u32 seclen)
> kfree(secdata);
> }
>
> +static const char *selinux_maclabel_getname(void)
> +{
> + return XATTR_NAME_SELINUX;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
>
> static int selinux_key_alloc(struct key *k, struct task_struct *tsk,
> @@ -5351,8 +5356,9 @@ static struct security_operations selinux_ops = {
> .secid_to_secctx = selinux_secid_to_secctx,
> .secctx_to_secid = selinux_secctx_to_secid,
> .release_secctx = selinux_release_secctx,
> -
> - .unix_stream_connect = selinux_socket_unix_stream_connect,
> + .maclabel_getname = selinux_maclabel_getname,
> +
> + .unix_stream_connect = selinux_socket_unix_stream_connect,
> .unix_may_send = selinux_socket_unix_may_send,
>
> .socket_create = selinux_socket_create,