kernel/security/selinux/include/avc_ss.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

selinux: fix style issues in security/selinux/include/avc_ss.h

2023-12-22T23:09:26Z

As part of on ongoing effort to perform more automated testing and provide more tools for individual developers to validate their patches before submitting, we are trying to make our code "clang-format clean". My hope is that once we have fixed all of our style "quirks", developers will be able to run clang-format on their patches to help avoid silly formatting problems and ensure their changes fit in well with the rest of the SELinux kernel code. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: update my email address

2023-07-19T15:27:02Z

Update my email address; MAINTAINERS was updated some time ago. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: stop passing selinux_state pointers and their offspring

2023-03-14T19:22:45Z

Linus observed that the pervasive passing of selinux_state pointers introduced by me in commit aa8e712cee93 ("selinux: wrap global selinux state") adds overhead and complexity without providing any benefit. The original idea was to pave the way for SELinux namespaces but those have not yet been implemented and there isn't currently a concrete plan to do so. Remove the passing of the selinux_state pointers, reverting to direct use of the single global selinux_state, and likewise remove passing of child pointers like the selinux_avc. The selinux_policy pointer remains as it is needed for atomic switching of policies. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Reported-by: kernel test robot Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303101057.mZ3Gv5fK-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: declare data arrays const

2022-05-03T19:53:49Z

The arrays for the policy capability names, the initial sid identifiers and the class and permission names are not changed at runtime. Declare them const to avoid accidental modification. Do not override the classmap and the initial sid list in the build time script genheaders. Check flose(3) is successful in genheaders.c, otherwise the written data might be corrupted or incomplete. Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche [PM: manual merge due to fuzz, minor style tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: include necessary headers in headers

2022-05-03T18:11:13Z

Include header files required for struct or typedef declarations in header files. This is for example helpful when working with an IDE, which needs to resolve those symbols. Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: wrap AVC state

2018-03-20T20:58:17Z

Wrap the AVC state within the selinux_state structure and pass it explicitly to all AVC functions. The AVC private state is encapsulated in a selinux_avc structure that is referenced from the selinux_state. This change should have no effect on SELinux behavior or APIs (userspace or LSM). Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Reviewed-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: wrap global selinux state

2018-03-01T23:48:02Z

Define a selinux state structure (struct selinux_state) for global SELinux state and pass it explicitly to all security server functions. The public portion of the structure contains state that is used throughout the SELinux code, such as the enforcing mode. The structure also contains a pointer to a selinux_ss structure whose definition is private to the security server and contains security server specific state such as the policy database and SID table. This change should have no effect on SELinux behavior or APIs (userspace or LSM). It merely wraps SELinux state and passes it explicitly as needed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley [PM: minor fixups needed due to collisions with the SCTP patches] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55Z

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

selinux: update my email address

2017-08-17T19:32:55Z

Update my email address since epoch.ncsc.mil no longer exists. MAINTAINERS and CREDITS are already correct. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

selinux: sparse fix: fix several warnings in the security server code

2011-09-09T23:56:32Z

Fix several sparse warnings in the SELinux security server code. Signed-off-by: James Morris