RE: Exposing secid to secctx mapping to user-space

2015-12-14 Thread Roberts, William C
> > > > If I understand correctly, the goal here is to avoid the lookup from > > pid to context. If we somehow Had the context or a token to a context > > during the ipc transaction to userspace, we could just use that In > > computing the access decision. If that is correct, then since we have >

RE: Exposing secid to secctx mapping to user-space

2015-12-14 Thread Roberts, William C
> Subject: Re: Exposing secid to secctx mapping to user-space > > On 12/13/2015 2:06 PM, Paul Moore wrote: > > On Friday, December 11, 2015 05:14:38 PM Stephen Smalley wrote: > >> Perhaps we could provide a new fixed-size tokenized version of the > >> security context string for export to userspa

RE: Exposing secid to secctx mapping to user-space

2015-12-11 Thread Roberts, William C
> -Original Message- > From: owner-linux-security-mod...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:owner-linux- > security-mod...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Paul Moore > Sent: Friday, December 11, 2015 11:55 AM > To: Daniel Cashman > Cc: seli...@tycho.nsa.gov; Stephen Smalley ; Eric Paris > ; James Mor