Thanks Stephen. I have modified ltp/README and selinux/README
accordingly.

Regards--
Subrata

On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 09:47 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 17:16 +0530, Subrata Modak wrote:
> > Hi Serge & Stephen,
> > 
> > Are there any more .config options required to be set/unset for
> > compiling 2.6.27 with all LSM enabled, apart from below:
> > 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_NETWORK_XFRM=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_FILE_CAPABILITIES=y
> 
> These are fine.
> 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_ROOTPLUG=y
> 
> Don't enable rootplug - it doesn't honor the security= option.  See
> below.  Plus it is just a toy example for an article that was published
> long ago.  I don't really understand why it is in mainline.
> 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=0
> 
> This has to be set to a positive value if you want to test this check.
> Fedora kernels set it to 65536.
> 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_BOOTPARAM_VALUE=1
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DEVELOP=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_AVC_STATS=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE=1
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_ENABLE_SECMARK_DEFAULT=y
> 
> These are fine.
> 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX=y
> 
> You don't want this one unless you are running Fedora 3 or 4.  On
> anything newer, it will cause unnecessary policy expansion.
> 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_POLICYDB_VERSION_MAX_VALUE=19
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK=y
> > 
> > I would like to run the filecaps and selinux tests in LTP and may be any
> > SMACK tests in future. Will it create a problem if kernel is built with
> > both below options set:
> > 
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SMACK=y
> > CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX=y
> 
> By default, if you boot with multiple LSMs compiled into the kernel, the
> kernel won't boot succesfully - there can be only one (aside from
> explicit internal "stacking" e.g. as is done for combining SELinux or
> Smack with capabilities).  Unless you use the security= option to select
> one at boot.  SELinux and Smack will honor the security= option.
> 
> > A great help would be in the form of a patch in updating:
> > http://ltp.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ltp/ltp/testcases/kernel/security/selinux-testsuite/README
> > 
> > in terms of exact SELinux policy(s) and userspace tool(s) to be
> > installed (from where to get and where to put) to build and run the
> > SELinux testsuite, supposing that a new kernel is built and no SELinux
> > policies/uerspace tools existed there before.
> 
> The existing ltp selinux testsuite presumes that you have an existing
> SELinux policy + userspace tools.  I've only ever used it on Fedora and
> RHEL, and principally on the latest Fedora.
> 


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