Convert netlabel documentation to ReST.
This was trivial: just add proper title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
---
.../{cipso_ipv4.txt => cipso_ipv4.rst} | 19 +++++++++++------
Documentation/netlabel/draft_ietf.rst | 5 +++++
Documentation/netlabel/index.rst | 21 +++++++++++++++++++
.../{introduction.txt => introduction.rst} | 16 +++++++++-----
.../{lsm_interface.txt => lsm_interface.rst} | 16 +++++++++-----
5 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
rename Documentation/netlabel/{cipso_ipv4.txt => cipso_ipv4.rst} (87%)
create mode 100644 Documentation/netlabel/draft_ietf.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/netlabel/index.rst
rename Documentation/netlabel/{introduction.txt => introduction.rst} (91%)
rename Documentation/netlabel/{lsm_interface.txt => lsm_interface.rst} (88%)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.rst
similarity index 87%
rename from Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.txt
rename to Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.rst
index a6075481fd60..cbd3f3231221 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/netlabel/cipso_ipv4.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
+===================================
NetLabel CIPSO/IPv4 Protocol Engine
-==============================================================================
+===================================
+
Paul Moore, [email protected]
May 17, 2006
- * Overview
+Overview
+========
The NetLabel CIPSO/IPv4 protocol engine is based on the IETF Commercial
IP Security Option (CIPSO) draft from July 16, 1992. A copy of this
@@ -13,7 +16,8 @@ draft can be found in this directory
it to an RFC standard it has become a de-facto standard for labeled
networking and is used in many trusted operating systems.
- * Outbound Packet Processing
+Outbound Packet Processing
+==========================
The CIPSO/IPv4 protocol engine applies the CIPSO IP option to packets by
adding the CIPSO label to the socket. This causes all packets leaving the
@@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ label by using the NetLabel security module API; if the NetLabel "domain" is
configured to use CIPSO for packet labeling then a CIPSO IP option will be
generated and attached to the socket.
- * Inbound Packet Processing
+Inbound Packet Processing
+=========================
The CIPSO/IPv4 protocol engine validates every CIPSO IP option it finds at the
IP layer without any special handling required by the LSM. However, in order
@@ -33,7 +38,8 @@ NetLabel security module API to extract the security attributes of the packet.
This is typically done at the socket layer using the 'socket_sock_rcv_skb()'
LSM hook.
- * Label Translation
+Label Translation
+=================
The CIPSO/IPv4 protocol engine contains a mechanism to translate CIPSO security
attributes such as sensitivity level and category to values which are
@@ -42,7 +48,8 @@ Domain Of Interpretation (DOI) definition and are configured through the
NetLabel user space communication layer. Each DOI definition can have a
different security attribute mapping table.
- * Label Translation Cache
+Label Translation Cache
+=======================
The NetLabel system provides a framework for caching security attribute
mappings from the network labels to the corresponding LSM identifiers. The
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/draft_ietf.rst b/Documentation/netlabel/draft_ietf.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..5ed39ab8234b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/netlabel/draft_ietf.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Draft IETF CIPSO IP Security
+----------------------------
+
+ .. include:: draft-ietf-cipso-ipsecurity-01.txt
+ :literal:
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/index.rst b/Documentation/netlabel/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47f1e0e5acd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/netlabel/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+:orphan:
+
+========
+NetLabel
+========
+
+.. toctree::
+ :maxdepth: 1
+
+ introduction
+ cipso_ipv4
+ lsm_interface
+
+ draft_ietf
+
+.. only:: subproject and html
+
+ Indices
+ =======
+
+ * :ref:`genindex`
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.rst
similarity index 91%
rename from Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt
rename to Documentation/netlabel/introduction.rst
index 3caf77bcff0f..9333bbb0adc1 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt
+++ b/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
+=====================
NetLabel Introduction
-==============================================================================
+=====================
+
Paul Moore, [email protected]
August 2, 2006
- * Overview
+Overview
+========
NetLabel is a mechanism which can be used by kernel security modules to attach
security attributes to outgoing network packets generated from user space
@@ -12,7 +15,8 @@ applications and read security attributes from incoming network packets. It
is composed of three main components, the protocol engines, the communication
layer, and the kernel security module API.
- * Protocol Engines
+Protocol Engines
+================
The protocol engines are responsible for both applying and retrieving the
network packet's security attributes. If any translation between the network
@@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ the NetLabel kernel security module API described below.
Detailed information about each NetLabel protocol engine can be found in this
directory.
- * Communication Layer
+Communication Layer
+===================
The communication layer exists to allow NetLabel configuration and monitoring
from user space. The NetLabel communication layer uses a message based
@@ -33,7 +38,8 @@ formatting of these NetLabel messages as well as the Generic NETLINK family
names can be found in the 'net/netlabel/' directory as comments in the
header files as well as in 'include/net/netlabel.h'.
- * Security Module API
+Security Module API
+===================
The purpose of the NetLabel security module API is to provide a protocol
independent interface to the underlying NetLabel protocol engines. In addition
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst
similarity index 88%
rename from Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt
rename to Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst
index 638c74f7de7f..026fc267f798 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
+========================================
NetLabel Linux Security Module Interface
-==============================================================================
+========================================
+
Paul Moore, [email protected]
May 17, 2006
- * Overview
+Overview
+========
NetLabel is a mechanism which can set and retrieve security attributes from
network packets. It is intended to be used by LSM developers who want to make
@@ -12,7 +15,8 @@ use of a common code base for several different packet labeling protocols.
The NetLabel security module API is defined in 'include/net/netlabel.h' but a
brief overview is given below.
- * NetLabel Security Attributes
+NetLabel Security Attributes
+============================
Since NetLabel supports multiple different packet labeling protocols and LSMs
it uses the concept of security attributes to refer to the packet's security
@@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ configuration. It is up to the LSM developer to translate the NetLabel
security attributes into whatever security identifiers are in use for their
particular LSM.
- * NetLabel LSM Protocol Operations
+NetLabel LSM Protocol Operations
+================================
These are the functions which allow the LSM developer to manipulate the labels
on outgoing packets as well as read the labels on incoming packets. Functions
@@ -32,7 +37,8 @@ exist to operate both on sockets as well as the sk_buffs directly. These high
level functions are translated into low level protocol operations based on how
the administrator has configured the NetLabel subsystem.
- * NetLabel Label Mapping Cache Operations
+NetLabel Label Mapping Cache Operations
+=======================================
Depending on the exact configuration, translation between the network packet
label and the internal LSM security identifier can be time consuming. The
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