From 86a71dbd3e81e8870d0f0e56b87875f57e58222b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:34:16 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] sysctl: hide the sysctl proc inodes from selinux Since the security checks are applied on each read and write of a sysctl file, just like they are applied when calling sys_sysctl, they are redundant on the standard VFS constructs. Since it is difficult to compute the security labels on the standard VFS constructs we just mark the sysctl inodes in proc private so selinux won't even bother with them. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c index bb16a1e7882..20e8cbb3436 100644 --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode(struct inode *dir, struct ctl_table *ta inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME; inode->i_op = &proc_sys_inode_operations; inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_file_operations; + inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE; /* tell selinux to ignore this inode */ proc_sys_refresh_inode(inode, table); out: return inode; -- 2.41.1