-
Notifications
You must be signed in to change notification settings - Fork 13
Commit
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.
Refactor the logic for changing SELinux policy booleans in a similar manner to the refactoring of policy load, thereby reducing the size of the critical section when the policy write-lock is held and making it easier to convert the policy rwlock to RCU in the future. Instead of directly modifying the policydb in place, modify a copy and then swap it into place through a single pointer update. Only fully copy the portions of the policydb that are affected by boolean changes to avoid the full cost of a deep policydb copy. Introduce another level of indirection for the sidtab since changing booleans does not require updating the sidtab, unlike policy load. While we are here, create a common helper for notifying other kernel components and userspace of a policy change and call it from both security_set_bools() and selinux_policy_commit(). Based on an old (2004) patch by Kaigai Kohei [1] to convert the policy rwlock to RCU that was deferred at the time since it did not significantly improve performance and introduced complexity. Peter Enderborg later submitted a patch series to convert to RCU [2] that would have made changing booleans a much more expensive operation by requiring a full policydb_write();policydb_read(); sequence to deep copy the entire policydb and also had concerns regarding atomic allocations. This change is now simplified by the earlier work to encapsulate policy state in the selinux_policy struct and to refactor policy load. After this change, the last major obstacle to converting the policy rwlock to RCU is likely the sidtab live convert support. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/[email protected]/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/[email protected]/ Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
- Loading branch information
1 parent
02a52c5
commit c7c556f
Showing
8 changed files
with
368 additions
and
64 deletions.
There are no files selected for viewing
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
Oops, something went wrong.