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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-02 21:38:48 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-02 21:38:48 -0700
commit88265322c14cce39f7afbc416726ef4fac413298 (patch)
treee4956f905ef617971f87788d8f8a09dbb66b70a3 /Documentation/security
parent65b99c74fdd325d1ffa2e5663295888704712604 (diff)
parentbf5308344527d015ac9a6d2bda4ad4d40fd7d943 (diff)
Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "Highlights: - Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline attacks - Integrity: add digital signature verification - Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions) - IBM vTPM support on ppc64 - Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM - Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels" Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c. * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits) Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools ima: change flags container data type Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label Smack: remove task_wait() hook. ima: audit log hashes ima: generic IMA action flag handling ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure audit: export audit_log_task_info tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390 ima: digital signature verification support ima: add support for different security.ima data types ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls ima: add inode_post_setattr call ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock ima: allocating iint improvements ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules ima: integrity appraisal extension vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file ...
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/Smack.txt10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
index a416479b8a1c..8a177e4b6e21 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
@@ -28,12 +28,11 @@ Smack kernels use the CIPSO IP option. Some network
configurations are intolerant of IP options and can impede
access to systems that use them as Smack does.
-The current git repositories for Smack user space are:
+The current git repository for Smack user space is:
- git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/smackutil.git
- git@gitorious.org:meego-platform-security/libsmack.git
+ git://github.com/smack-team/smack.git
-These should make and install on most modern distributions.
+This should make and install on most modern distributions.
There are three commands included in smackutil:
smackload - properly formats data for writing to /smack/load
@@ -194,6 +193,9 @@ onlycap
these capabilities are effective at for processes with any
label. The value is set by writing the desired label to the
file or cleared by writing "-" to the file.
+revoke-subject
+ Writing a Smack label here sets the access to '-' for all access
+ rules with that subject label.
You can add access rules in /etc/smack/accesses. They take the form: