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authorJarkko Sakkinen <ext-jarkko.2.sakkinen@nokia.com>2010-12-07 14:34:01 +0300
committerCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>2010-12-08 01:04:02 +0300
commit5c6d1125f8dbd1bfef39e38fbc2837003be78a59 (patch)
tree368d34e800bc5478442679323270d776b79501e8 /include/linux/xattr.h
parentfe27d4b012273640e033be80f143bdc54daa8e16 (diff)
downloadlinux-5c6d1125f8dbd1bfef39e38fbc2837003be78a59.tar.xz
Smack: Transmute labels on specified directories
In a situation where Smack access rules allow processes with multiple labels to write to a directory it is easy to get into a situation where the directory gets cluttered with files that the owner can't deal with because while they could be written to the directory a process at the label of the directory can't write them. This is generally the desired behavior, but when it isn't it is a real issue. This patch introduces a new attribute SMACK64TRANSMUTE that instructs Smack to create the file with the label of the directory under certain circumstances. A new access mode, "t" for transmute, is made available to Smack access rules, which are expanded from "rwxa" to "rwxat". If a file is created in a directory marked as transmutable and if access was granted to perform the operation by a rule that included the transmute mode, then the file gets the Smack label of the directory instead of the Smack label of the creating process. Note that this is equivalent to creating an empty file at the label of the directory and then having the other process write to it. The transmute scheme requires that both the access rule allows transmutation and that the directory be explicitly marked. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <ext-jarkko.2.sakkinen@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/xattr.h b/include/linux/xattr.h
index 351c7901d74a..e6131ef98d8f 100644
--- a/include/linux/xattr.h
+++ b/include/linux/xattr.h
@@ -41,10 +41,12 @@
#define XATTR_SMACK_IPIN "SMACK64IPIN"
#define XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT "SMACK64IPOUT"
#define XATTR_SMACK_EXEC "SMACK64EXEC"
+#define XATTR_SMACK_TRANSMUTE "SMACK64TRANSMUTE"
#define XATTR_NAME_SMACK XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_SUFFIX
#define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPIN XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPIN
#define XATTR_NAME_SMACKIPOUT XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_IPOUT
#define XATTR_NAME_SMACKEXEC XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_EXEC
+#define XATTR_NAME_SMACKTRANSMUTE XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_SMACK_TRANSMUTE
#define XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX "capability"
#define XATTR_NAME_CAPS XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX XATTR_CAPS_SUFFIX