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author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-06-11 11:03:14 +1000 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-06-11 11:03:14 +1000 |
commit | 73fbad283cfbbcf02939bdbda31fc4a30e729cca (patch) | |
tree | 7c89fe13e1b4a2c7f2d60f4ea6eaf69c14bccab7 /Documentation | |
parent | 769f3e8c384795cc350e2aae27de2a12374d19d4 (diff) | |
parent | 35f2c2f6f6ae13ef23c4f68e6d3073753077ca43 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/Smack.txt | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt | 11 |
3 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Smack.txt b/Documentation/Smack.txt index 629c92e99783..34614b4c708e 100644 --- a/Documentation/Smack.txt +++ b/Documentation/Smack.txt @@ -184,8 +184,9 @@ length. Single character labels using special characters, that being anything other than a letter or digit, are reserved for use by the Smack development team. Smack labels are unstructured, case sensitive, and the only operation ever performed on them is comparison for equality. Smack labels cannot -contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) character. Smack labels -cannot begin with a '-', which is reserved for special options. +contain unprintable characters, the "/" (slash), the "\" (backslash), the "'" +(quote) and '"' (double-quote) characters. +Smack labels cannot begin with a '-', which is reserved for special options. There are some predefined labels: @@ -523,3 +524,18 @@ Smack supports some mount options: These mount options apply to all file system types. +Smack auditing + +If you want Smack auditing of security events, you need to set CONFIG_AUDIT +in your kernel configuration. +By default, all denied events will be audited. You can change this behavior by +writing a single character to the /smack/logging file : +0 : no logging +1 : log denied (default) +2 : log accepted +3 : log denied & accepted + +Events are logged as 'key=value' pairs, for each event you at least will get +the subjet, the object, the rights requested, the action, the kernel function +that triggered the event, plus other pairs depending on the type of event +audited. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index af43f45e8358..a5253f6d01af 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -916,6 +916,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file Formt: { "sha1" | "md5" } default: "sha1" + ima_tcb [IMA] + Load a policy which meets the needs of the Trusted + Computing Base. This means IMA will measure all + programs exec'd, files mmap'd for exec, and all files + opened for read by uid=0. + in2000= [HW,SCSI] See header of drivers/scsi/in2000.c. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index f11ca7979fa6..322a00bb99d9 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel: - kstack_depth_to_print [ X86 only ] - l2cr [ PPC only ] - modprobe ==> Documentation/debugging-modules.txt +- modules_disabled - msgmax - msgmnb - msgmni @@ -184,6 +185,16 @@ kernel stack. ============================================================== +modules_disabled: + +A toggle value indicating if modules are allowed to be loaded +in an otherwise modular kernel. This toggle defaults to off +(0), but can be set true (1). Once true, modules can be +neither loaded nor unloaded, and the toggle cannot be set back +to false. + +============================================================== + osrelease, ostype & version: # cat osrelease |