On 10/07/2015 07:08 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
In order to effectively enforce LSM based access controls we need to
have more information about the kdbus endpoint creator than the
uid/gid currently stored in the kdbus_node_type struct.  This patch
replaces the uid/gid values with a reference to the node creator's
credential struct which serves the needs of both the kdbus DAC access
controls as well as the LSM's access controls.

Two macros have also been created, kdbus_node_[uid,gid](), which can
be used to easily extract the euid/egid information from the new
credential reference.  The effective uid/gid is used as it was used
in all areas of the previous kdbus code except for areas where the
uid/gid was never set beyond the basic initialization to zero/root;
I expect this was a bug that was never caught as the node creator in
these cases was always expect to be root.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmo...@redhat.com>

---
ChangeLog:
- v3
  * Ported to the 4.3-rc4 based kdbus tree
- v2
  * Initial draft
---
  ipc/kdbus/bus.c      |   13 +++++--------
  ipc/kdbus/endpoint.c |   14 ++++----------
  ipc/kdbus/endpoint.h |    3 +--
  ipc/kdbus/fs.c       |    4 ++--
  ipc/kdbus/node.c     |   11 ++++-------
  ipc/kdbus/node.h     |    5 +++--
  6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)


diff --git a/ipc/kdbus/node.c b/ipc/kdbus/node.c
index 89f58bc..cd0c1a0 100644
--- a/ipc/kdbus/node.c
+++ b/ipc/kdbus/node.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   */

  #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/cred.h>
  #include <linux/fs.h>
  #include <linux/idr.h>
  #include <linux/kdev_t.h>
@@ -170,13 +171,7 @@
   *                         node initialization. They must remain constant. If
   *                         NULL, they're skipped.
   *
- *     * node->mode: filesystem access modes

mode still remains
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