Author: Joshua Brindle
Email: method@manicmethod.com
Subject: libsepol: Add support for multiple target OSes
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:56:39 -0400
Paul Nuzzi wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:58 -0400, Joshua Brindle wrote:
>> I'd rather have separate ocontext structs for each system. That way it
>> is very easy to understand which ones apply to which system and you
>> don't get a crazy out of context ocontext struct.
>>
>
> I looked into having separate ocontext structs but that would involve
> changing a lot of files making the patch much larger and more intrusive.
>
>>> } u;
>>> union {
>>> uint32_t sclass; /* security class for genfs */
>>> @@ -313,6 +323,17 @@ typedef struct genfs {
>>> #define OCON_NODE6 6 /* IPv6 nodes */
>>> #define OCON_NUM 7
>>>
>>> +/* object context array indices for Xen */
>>> +#define OCON_ISID 0 /* initial SIDs */
>>> +#define OCON_PIRQ 1 /* physical irqs */
>>> +#define OCON_IOPORT 2 /* io ports */
>>> +#define OCON_IOMEM 3 /* io memory */
>>> +#define OCON_DEVICE 4 /* pci devices */
>>> +#define OCON_DUMMY1 5 /* reserved */
>>> +#define OCON_DUMMY2 6 /* reserved */
>>> +#define OCON_NUM 7
>>> +
>>> +
>>>
>> Should these be namespaced? What if<random other system> has io port
>> objects? You'd have to align them with each other and you have a mess of
>> keeping the numbers the same (you already do this with OCON_ISID)
>
> Variables have been namespaced and there is no more overlap with
> OCON_ISID.
>
>> Also we are relying on having the same number of OCON's which isn't good
>> I don't think. As much as I hate the policydb_compat_info (read: alot)
>> why aren't we using that to say how many ocons a xen policy really has?
>
> OCON_NUM is now dynamically read through policydb_compat_info.
>
>
>> This is messy, why not an ocontext_selinux_free() and
>> ocontext_xen_free() (note: I realize the xen_free() one won't do
>> anything except freep the ocontext_t)
>>
>
> done.
>
>>> len = buf[1];
>>> - if (len != strlen(target_str)&&
>>> - (!alt_target_str || len != strlen(alt_target_str))) {
>>> - ERR(fp->handle, "policydb string length %zu does not match "
>>> - "expected length %zu", len, strlen(target_str));
>>> + if (len> 32) {
>>>
>> magic number 32?
>
> #defined.
>
> Thanks for your input. Below is the updated patch for libsepol.
>
Acked-by: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
for the entire patchset with the following diff on top:
diff --git a/checkpolicy/checkpolicy.c b/checkpolicy/checkpolicy.c
index 76d8ed3..e76bb1a 100644
--- a/checkpolicy/checkpolicy.c
+++ b/checkpolicy/checkpolicy.c
@@ -100,8 +100,8 @@ unsigned int policyvers = POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX;
void usage(char *progname)
{
printf
- ("usage: %s [-b] [-d] [-U handle_unknown (allow,deny,reject) [-M]"
- "[-c policyvers (%d-%d)] [-o output_file] [-t platform]"
+ ("usage: %s [-b] [-d] [-U handle_unknown (allow,deny,reject)] [-M]"
+ "[-c policyvers (%d-%d)] [-o output_file] [-t target_platform (selinux,xen)]"
"[input_file]\n",
progname, POLICYDB_VERSION_MIN, POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX);
exit(1);
Signed-off-by: Joshua Brindle <method@manicmethod.com>
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