[Devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] hijack: update task_alloc_security

Crispin Cowan crispin at crispincowan.com
Tue Nov 27 21:50:00 PST 2007


Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Stephen Smalley (sds at tycho.nsa.gov):
>   
>> I agree with this part - we don't want people to have to choose between
>> using containers and using selinux, so if hijack is going to be a
>> requirement for effective use of containers, then we need to make them
>> work together.
>>     
> Absolutely, we just need to decide how to properly make it work with
> selinux.  Maybe we check for
>
> 	allow (current_domain):(hijacked_process_domain) hijack
> 	type_transition hijacked_process_domain \
> 		vserver_enter_binary_t:process vserver1_hijack_admin_t;
>   
Is there to be an LSM hook, so that modules can decide on an arbitrary
decision of whether to allow a hijack? So that this "do the right
SELinux" thing can be generalized for all LSMs to do the right thing.

Crispin

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