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selinux: Deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality
authorPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:11 +0000 (12:54 -0500)
committerPaul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:54:11 +0000 (12:54 -0500)
commit277d342fc423fca5e66e677fe629d1b2f8f1b9e2
tree733f8694020df6ff8d9e21e2419b0df71aeb4351
parent6c2e8ac0953fccdd24dc6c4b9e08e8f1cd68cf07
selinux: Deprecate and schedule the removal of the the compat_net functionality

This patch is the first step towards removing the old "compat_net" code from
the kernel.  Secmark, the "compat_net" replacement was first introduced in
2.6.18 (September 2006) and the major Linux distributions with SELinux support
have transitioned to Secmark so it is time to start deprecating the "compat_net"
mechanism.  Testing a patched version of 2.6.28-rc6 with the initial release of
Fedora Core 5 did not show any problems when running in enforcing mode.

This patch adds an entry to the feature-removal-schedule.txt file and removes
the SECURITY_SELINUX_ENABLE_SECMARK_DEFAULT configuration option, forcing
Secmark on by default although it can still be disabled at runtime.  The patch
also makes the Secmark permission checks "dynamic" in the sense that they are
only executed when Secmark is configured; this should help prevent problems
with older distributions that have not yet migrated to Secmark.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
security/selinux/Kconfig
security/selinux/hooks.c
security/selinux/selinuxfs.c