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authorNathaniel Chen <nathaniel.chen@intel.com>2013-03-07 11:06:58 -0800
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2013-03-07 20:53:14 +0100
commitffbd2c4d45787ba5ba85a32db6551efba66a1ee6 (patch)
treedf4c6083913ff2a020cecbe98cd80ff0b4fc981f /README
parent8f838d8aab0c5480664de04dce0171de4f4c7b00 (diff)
core: mount and initialize Smack
SMACK is the Simple Mandatory Access Control Kernel, a minimal approach to Access Control implemented as a kernel LSM. The kernel exposes the smackfs filesystem API through which access rules can be loaded. At boot time, we want to load the access rules as early as possible to ensure all early boot steps are checked by Smack. This patch mounts smackfs at the new location at /sys/fs/smackfs for kernels 3.8 and above. The /smack mountpoint is not supported. After mounting smackfs, rules are loaded from the usual location. For more information about Smack see: http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/security/Smack.txt
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@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ REQUIREMENTS:
CONFIG_NET
CONFIG_SYSFS
+ Linux kernel >= 3.8 for Smack support
+
Udev will fail to work with the legacy layout:
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n