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author | Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> | 2015-07-23 00:25:31 +0300 |
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committer | Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> | 2015-07-28 16:35:21 +0300 |
commit | 21abb1ec414c75abe32c3854848ff30e2b4a6113 (patch) | |
tree | 20f0e7ae76efb396a84855b62888e9c21bedaf7f /Documentation/security | |
parent | ca70d27e445fe721587598030b97357b35f61913 (diff) | |
download | linux-21abb1ec414c75abe32c3854848ff30e2b4a6113.tar.xz |
Smack: IPv6 host labeling
IPv6 appears to be (finally) coming of age with the
influx of autonomous devices. In support of this, add
the ability to associate a Smack label with IPv6 addresses.
This patch also cleans up some of the conditional
compilation associated with the introduction of
secmark processing. It's now more obvious which bit
of code goes with which feature.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/Smack.txt | 27 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt index de5e1aeca7fb..5e6d07fbed07 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt @@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ Smack kernels use the CIPSO IP option. Some network configurations are intolerant of IP options and can impede access to systems that use them as Smack does. +Smack is used in the Tizen operating system. Please +go to http://wiki.tizen.org for information about how +Smack is used in Tizen. + The current git repository for Smack user space is: git://github.com/smack-team/smack.git @@ -108,6 +112,8 @@ in the smackfs filesystem. This pseudo-filesystem is mounted on /sys/fs/smackfs. access + Provided for backward compatibility. The access2 interface + is preferred and should be used instead. This interface reports whether a subject with the specified Smack label has a particular access to an object with a specified Smack label. Write a fixed format access rule to @@ -136,6 +142,8 @@ change-rule those in the fourth string. If there is no such rule it will be created using the access specified in the third and the fourth strings. cipso + Provided for backward compatibility. The cipso2 interface + is preferred and should be used instead. This interface allows a specific CIPSO header to be assigned to a Smack label. The format accepted on write is: "%24s%4d%4d"["%4d"]... @@ -157,7 +165,19 @@ direct doi This contains the CIPSO domain of interpretation used in network packets. +ipv6host + This interface allows specific IPv6 internet addresses to be + treated as single label hosts. Packets are sent to single + label hosts only from processes that have Smack write access + to the host label. All packets received from single label hosts + are given the specified label. The format accepted on write is: + "%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h label" or + "%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h:%h/%d label". + The "::" address shortcut is not supported. + If label is "-DELETE" a matched entry will be deleted. load + Provided for backward compatibility. The load2 interface + is preferred and should be used instead. This interface allows access control rules in addition to the system defined rules to be specified. The format accepted on write is: @@ -181,6 +201,8 @@ load2 permissions that are not allowed. The string "r-x--" would specify read and execute access. load-self + Provided for backward compatibility. The load-self2 interface + is preferred and should be used instead. This interface allows process specific access rules to be defined. These rules are only consulted if access would otherwise be permitted, and are intended to provide additional @@ -205,6 +227,8 @@ netlabel received from single label hosts are given the specified label. The format accepted on write is: "%d.%d.%d.%d label" or "%d.%d.%d.%d/%d label". + If the label specified is "-CIPSO" the address is treated + as a host that supports CIPSO headers. onlycap This contains labels processes must have for CAP_MAC_ADMIN and CAP_MAC_OVERRIDE to be effective. If this file is empty @@ -232,7 +256,8 @@ unconfined is dangerous and can ruin the proper labeling of your system. It should never be used in production. -You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: +If you are using the smackload utility +you can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: subjectlabel objectlabel access |