On 10/31/2016 08:58 AM, David Graziano wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:00 PM, David Graziano
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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
> 
> 
> I have a working patch. Where would you recommend submitting the patch
> for review/upstreaming? Is it something this mailing list would look
> at or should I submit elsewhere?

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