On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Roberts, William C
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Selinux [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen
>> Smalley
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2016 9:33 AM
>> To: David Graziano <[email protected]>;
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: POSIX mqueues
>>
>> On 10/24/2016 03:25 PM, David Graziano wrote:
>> > I am attempting to write policy for a set of applications which use
>> > POSIX mqueues using named type_transistion rules to uniquely label the
>> > mqueue files in the /dev/mqueue directory then controlling access
>> > based on the types. Standard type transition rules seem to work but I
>> > cannot seem to get the named type transitions to apply the proper
>> > label. Are named type transitions not supported by the mqueue file
>> > system? I’m on a 3.14 series kernel with policy version 28 if that
>> > helps. I’d like to avoid needing to do a restorecon after a new queue
>> > is created. Named type transistions seem to work on other file systems
>> > like tmp and jffs2.
>>
>> You would need to patch the kernel to support that; the filesystem
>> implementation must call security_inode_init_security() and pass the &dentry-
>> >d_name in order to support name-based transitions.
>>
>
> Interesting, is anyone currently working on that, David, are you going to do 
> that? If no one
> Wants it, I'll do it ;-P
>

Unless someone else is already working it I'll go ahead and start a patch.

- David

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