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authorMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-12-29 00:02:29 +0300
committerMimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-02-19 01:14:03 +0300
commitb44a7dfc6fa16e01f2497c9fa62c3926f94be174 (patch)
treeb48ced5b7c84986778ca4ac3b6bf3f13c74f2ef2 /include/linux/security.h
parent4b2530d819e179ae3352c38a1ceff929a922d070 (diff)
downloadlinux-b44a7dfc6fa16e01f2497c9fa62c3926f94be174.tar.xz
vfs: define a generic function to read a file from the kernel
For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux. These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just this though to load a file into a local buffer. There are minor but important checks differences on each. This patch set is the first attempt at resolving some of these differences. This patch introduces a common function for reading files from the kernel with the corresponding security post-read hook and function. Changelog v4+: - export security_kernel_post_read_file() - Fengguang Wu v3: - additional bounds checking - Luis v2: - To simplify patch review, re-ordered patches Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/security.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/security.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h
index 4824a4ccaf1c..f30f5647d1e1 100644
--- a/include/linux/security.h
+++ b/include/linux/security.h
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ int security_kernel_create_files_as(struct cred *new, struct inode *inode);
int security_kernel_fw_from_file(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size);
int security_kernel_module_request(char *kmod_name);
int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file);
+int security_kernel_post_read_file(struct file *file, char *buf, loff_t size);
int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new, const struct cred *old,
int flags);
int security_task_setpgid(struct task_struct *p, pid_t pgid);
@@ -866,6 +867,12 @@ static inline int security_kernel_module_from_file(struct file *file)
return 0;
}
+static inline int security_kernel_post_read_file(struct file *file,
+ char *buf, loff_t size)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
static inline int security_task_fix_setuid(struct cred *new,
const struct cred *old,
int flags)