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authorJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2010-07-30 01:47:57 +0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-08-02 09:35:11 +0400
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AppArmor: misc. base functions and defines
Miscellaneous functions and defines needed by AppArmor, including the base path resolution routines. Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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+/*
+ * AppArmor security module
+ *
+ * This file contains basic common functions used in AppArmor
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Novell/SUSE
+ * Copyright 2009-2010 Canonical Ltd.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
+ * License.
+ */
+
+#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/string.h>
+#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+
+#include "include/audit.h"
+
+
+/**
+ * aa_split_fqname - split a fqname into a profile and namespace name
+ * @fqname: a full qualified name in namespace profile format (NOT NULL)
+ * @ns_name: pointer to portion of the string containing the ns name (NOT NULL)
+ *
+ * Returns: profile name or NULL if one is not specified
+ *
+ * Split a namespace name from a profile name (see policy.c for naming
+ * description). If a portion of the name is missing it returns NULL for
+ * that portion.
+ *
+ * NOTE: may modify the @fqname string. The pointers returned point
+ * into the @fqname string.
+ */
+char *aa_split_fqname(char *fqname, char **ns_name)
+{
+ char *name = strim(fqname);
+
+ *ns_name = NULL;
+ if (name[0] == ':') {
+ char *split = strchr(&name[1], ':');
+ if (split) {
+ /* overwrite ':' with \0 */
+ *split = 0;
+ name = skip_spaces(split + 1);
+ } else
+ /* a ns name without a following profile is allowed */
+ name = NULL;
+ *ns_name = &name[1];
+ }
+ if (name && *name == 0)
+ name = NULL;
+
+ return name;
+}
+
+/**
+ * aa_info_message - log a none profile related status message
+ * @str: message to log
+ */
+void aa_info_message(const char *str)
+{
+ if (audit_enabled) {
+ struct common_audit_data sa;
+ COMMON_AUDIT_DATA_INIT(&sa, NONE);
+ sa.aad.info = str;
+ aa_audit_msg(AUDIT_APPARMOR_STATUS, &sa, NULL);
+ }
+ printk(KERN_INFO "AppArmor: %s\n", str);
+}
+
+/**
+ * kvmalloc - do allocation preferring kmalloc but falling back to vmalloc
+ * @size: size of allocation
+ *
+ * Return: allocated buffer or NULL if failed
+ *
+ * It is possible that policy being loaded from the user is larger than
+ * what can be allocated by kmalloc, in those cases fall back to vmalloc.
+ */
+void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
+{
+ void *buffer = NULL;
+
+ if (size == 0)
+ return NULL;
+
+ /* do not attempt kmalloc if we need more than 16 pages at once */
+ if (size <= (16*PAGE_SIZE))
+ buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN);
+ if (!buffer) {
+ /* see kvfree for why size must be at least work_struct size
+ * when allocated via vmalloc
+ */
+ if (size < sizeof(struct work_struct))
+ size = sizeof(struct work_struct);
+ buffer = vmalloc(size);
+ }
+ return buffer;
+}
+
+/**
+ * do_vfree - workqueue routine for freeing vmalloced memory
+ * @work: data to be freed
+ *
+ * The work_struct is overlaid to the data being freed, as at the point
+ * the work is scheduled the data is no longer valid, be its freeing
+ * needs to be delayed until safe.
+ */
+static void do_vfree(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ vfree(work);
+}
+
+/**
+ * kvfree - free an allocation do by kvmalloc
+ * @buffer: buffer to free (MAYBE_NULL)
+ *
+ * Free a buffer allocated by kvmalloc
+ */
+void kvfree(void *buffer)
+{
+ if (is_vmalloc_addr(buffer)) {
+ /* Data is no longer valid so just use the allocated space
+ * as the work_struct
+ */
+ struct work_struct *work = (struct work_struct *) buffer;
+ INIT_WORK(work, do_vfree);
+ schedule_work(work);
+ } else
+ kfree(buffer);
+}