1 .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
2 .. Copyright (C) 2022 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
3 .. Copyright (C) 2022 Intel Corporation
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9 :Author: Casey Schaufler
12 Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement
13 additional access controls to the Linux security policies.
15 The various security modules may support any of these attributes:
17 ``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the
19 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/current``.
20 This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules.
21 Smack also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/smack/current``.
22 AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/current``.
24 ``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the
25 current image was executed.
26 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/exec``.
27 This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
28 AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/exec``.
30 ``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
31 creating file system objects.
32 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/fscreate``.
33 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
35 ``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
37 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/keycreate``.
38 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
40 ``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the
41 current security context was set.
42 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/prev``.
43 This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
44 AppArmor also provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/apparmor/prev``.
46 ``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
47 creating socket objects.
48 The proc filesystem provides this value in ``/proc/self/attr/sockcreate``.
49 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
54 Set a security attribute of the current process
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57 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
58 :identifiers: sys_lsm_set_self_attr
60 Get the specified security attributes of the current process
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63 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
64 :identifiers: sys_lsm_get_self_attr
66 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
67 :identifiers: sys_lsm_list_modules
69 Additional documentation
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72 * Documentation/security/lsm.rst
73 * Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst