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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2009-07-31 18:54:11 +0200 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2009-08-17 07:09:11 +0200 |
| commit | 788084aba2ab7348257597496befcbccabdc98a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2da42d746d67b16ef705229a1b5a3528ec19c725 /mm/Kconfig | |
| parent | SELinux: call cap_file_mmap in selinux_file_mmap (diff) | |
| download | linux-788084aba2ab7348257597496befcbccabdc98a3.tar.xz linux-788084aba2ab7348257597496befcbccabdc98a3.zip | |
Security/SELinux: seperate lsm specific mmap_min_addr
Currently SELinux enforcement of controls on the ability to map low memory
is determined by the mmap_min_addr tunable. This patch causes SELinux to
ignore the tunable and instead use a seperate Kconfig option specific to how
much space the LSM should protect.
The tunable will now only control the need for CAP_SYS_RAWIO and SELinux
permissions will always protect the amount of low memory designated by
CONFIG_LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR.
This allows users who need to disable the mmap_min_addr controls (usual reason
being they run WINE as a non-root user) to do so and still have SELinux
controls preventing confined domains (like a web server) from being able to
map some area of low memory.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig index c948d4ca8bde..fe5f674d7a7d 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig +++ b/mm/Kconfig @@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ config DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR For most ia64, ppc64 and x86 users with lots of address space a value of 65536 is reasonable and should cause no problems. On arm and other archs it should not be higher than 32768. - Programs which use vm86 functionality would either need additional - permissions from either the LSM or the capabilities module or have - this protection disabled. + Programs which use vm86 functionality or have some need to map + this low address space will need CAP_SYS_RAWIO or disable this + protection by setting the value to 0. This value can be changed after boot using the /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr tunable. |