Message ID | 20221028165423.386151-1-roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com (mailing list archive) |
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State | Superseded |
Delegated to: | Paul Moore |
Headers | show |
Series | [RESEND,RFC,1/3] lsm: Clarify documentation of vm_enough_memory hook | expand |
On Fri, Oct 28, 2022 at 6:55 PM Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huaweicloud.com> wrote: > > From: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> > > include/linux/lsm_hooks.h reports the result of the LSM infrastructure to > the callers, not what LSMs should return to the LSM infrastructure. > > Clarify that and add that returning 1 from the LSMs means calling > __vm_enough_memory() with cap_sys_admin set, 0 without. > > Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> > --- > include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h > index 4ec80b96c22e..f40b82ca91e7 100644 > --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h > +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h > @@ -1411,7 +1411,9 @@ > * Check permissions for allocating a new virtual mapping. > * @mm contains the mm struct it is being added to. > * @pages contains the number of pages. > - * Return 0 if permission is granted. > + * Return 0 if permission is granted by LSMs to the caller. LSMs should > + * return 1 if __vm_enough_memory() should be called with > + * cap_sys_admin set, 0 if not. > * > * @ismaclabel: > * Check if the extended attribute specified by @name > -- > 2.25.1 >
diff --git a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h index 4ec80b96c22e..f40b82ca91e7 100644 --- a/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h +++ b/include/linux/lsm_hooks.h @@ -1411,7 +1411,9 @@ * Check permissions for allocating a new virtual mapping. * @mm contains the mm struct it is being added to. * @pages contains the number of pages. - * Return 0 if permission is granted. + * Return 0 if permission is granted by LSMs to the caller. LSMs should + * return 1 if __vm_enough_memory() should be called with + * cap_sys_admin set, 0 if not. * * @ismaclabel: * Check if the extended attribute specified by @name