Smack: Implement lock security mode

Linux file locking does not follow the same rules
as other mechanisms. Even though it is a write operation
a process can set a read lock on files which it has open
only for read access. Two programs with read access to
a file can use read locks to communicate.

This is not acceptable in a Mandatory Access Control
environment. Smack treats setting a read lock as the
write operation that it is. Unfortunately, many programs
assume that setting a read lock is a read operation.
These programs are unhappy in the Smack environment.

This patch introduces a new access mode (lock) to address
this problem. A process with lock access to a file can
set a read lock. A process with write access to a file can
set a read lock or a write lock. This prevents a situation
where processes are granted write access just so they can
set read locks.

Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
This commit is contained in:
Casey Schaufler
2013-10-11 18:06:39 -07:00
parent 5a5f2acfd0
commit c0ab6e56dc
4 changed files with 33 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -177,9 +177,13 @@ struct smk_port_label {
#define SMACK_CIPSO_MAXCATNUM 184 /* 23 * 8 */
/*
* Flag for transmute access
* Flags for untraditional access modes.
* It shouldn't be necessary to avoid conflicts with definitions
* in fs.h, but do so anyway.
*/
#define MAY_TRANSMUTE 64
#define MAY_TRANSMUTE 0x00001000 /* Controls directory labeling */
#define MAY_LOCK 0x00002000 /* Locks should be writes, but ... */
/*
* Just to make the common cases easier to deal with
*/
@@ -188,9 +192,9 @@ struct smk_port_label {
#define MAY_NOT 0
/*
* Number of access types used by Smack (rwxat)
* Number of access types used by Smack (rwxatl)
*/
#define SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE 5
#define SMK_NUM_ACCESS_TYPE 6
/* SMACK data */
struct smack_audit_data {