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3 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Kees Cook 2d514487fa security: Yama LSM
This adds the Yama Linux Security Module to collect DAC security
improvements (specifically just ptrace restrictions for now) that have
existed in various forms over the years and have been carried outside the
mainline kernel by other Linux distributions like Openwall and grsecurity.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2012-02-10 09:18:52 +11:00
Kees Cook e163bc8e4a Documentation: clarify the purpose of LSMs
Clarify the purpose of the LSM interface with some brief examples and
pointers to additional documentation.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-11-16 12:37:27 +11:00
Randy Dunlap d410fa4ef9 Create Documentation/security/,
move LSM-, credentials-, and keys-related files from Documentation/
  to Documentation/security/,
add Documentation/security/00-INDEX, and
update all occurrences of Documentation/<moved_file>
  to Documentation/security/<moved_file>.
2011-05-19 15:59:38 -07:00