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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-10 10:05:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-10 10:05:36 -0700
commitfad0701eaa091beb8ce5ef2eef04b5e833617368 (patch)
tree788297c7b05b167599265013ef8ec473a0d367fe /Documentation/security
parentd53b47c08d8fda1892f47393de8eeab4e34b3188 (diff)
parentf9b2a735bdddf836214b5dca74f6ca7712e5a08c (diff)
Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security
Pull security layer updates from Serge Hallyn: "This is a merge of James Morris' security-next tree from 3.14 to yesterday's master, plus four patches from Paul Moore which are in linux-next, plus one patch from Mimi" * 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security: ima: audit log files opened with O_DIRECT flag selinux: conditionally reschedule in hashtab_insert while loading selinux policy selinux: conditionally reschedule in mls_convert_context while loading selinux policy selinux: reject setexeccon() on MNT_NOSUID applications with -EACCES selinux: Report permissive mode in avc: denied messages. Warning in scanf string typing Smack: Label cgroup files for systemd Smack: Verify read access on file open - v3 security: Convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table Smack: bidirectional UDS connect check Smack: Correctly remove SMACK64TRANSMUTE attribute SMACK: Fix handling value==NULL in post setxattr bugfix patch for SMACK Smack: adds smackfs/ptrace interface Smack: unify all ptrace accesses in the smack Smack: fix the subject/object order in smack_ptrace_traceme() Minor improvement of 'smack_sb_kern_mount' smack: fix key permission verification KEYS: Move the flags representing required permission to linux/key.h
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diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
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@@ -204,6 +204,16 @@ onlycap
these capabilities are effective at for processes with any
label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the
file or cleared by writing "-" to the file.
+ptrace
+ This is used to define the current ptrace policy
+ 0 - default: this is the policy that relies on smack access rules.
+ For the PTRACE_READ a subject needs to have a read access on
+ object. For the PTRACE_ATTACH a read-write access is required.
+ 1 - exact: this is the policy that limits PTRACE_ATTACH. Attach is
+ only allowed when subject's and object's labels are equal.
+ PTRACE_READ is not affected. Can be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
+ 2 - draconian: this policy behaves like the 'exact' above with an
+ exception that it can't be overriden with CAP_SYS_PTRACE.
revoke-subject
Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access
rules with that subject label.