From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752023AbbAVLgT (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:36:19 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45466 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751146AbbAVLgQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jan 2015 06:36:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:51:50 +0800 From: Greg KH To: Stephen Smalley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arve@android.com, nnk@google.com, paul@paul-moore.com, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, jmorris@namei.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add security hooks to binder and implement the hooks for SELinux. Message-ID: <20150122085150.GB1268@kroah.com> References: <1421855650-22522-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1421855650-22522-1-git-send-email-sds@tycho.nsa.gov> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:54:10AM -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote: > Add security hooks to the binder and implement the hooks for SELinux. > The security hooks enable security modules such as SELinux to implement > controls over binder IPC. The security hooks include support for > controlling what process can become the binder context manager > (binder_set_context_mgr), controlling the ability of a process > to invoke a binder transaction/IPC to another process (binder_transaction), > controlling the ability of a process to transfer a binder reference to > another process (binder_transfer_binder), and controlling the ability > of a process to transfer an open file to another process (binder_transfer_file). > > These hooks have been included in the Android kernel trees since Android 4.3. Very interesting, I missed the fact that these were added in that tree, thanks for digging it out and submitting it. I'd like some acks from some Android developers before I take these. Or, if it's easier for them to go through the security tree, that's fine with me as well. thanks, greg k-h