linux/fs/nfsd
David Howells 3b11a1dece CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task
Differentiate the objective and real subjective credentials from the effective
subjective credentials on a task by introducing a second credentials pointer
into the task_struct.

task_struct::real_cred then refers to the objective and apparent real
subjective credentials of a task, as perceived by the other tasks in the
system.

task_struct::cred then refers to the effective subjective credentials of a
task, as used by that task when it's actually running.  These are not visible
to the other tasks in the system.

__task_cred(task) then refers to the objective/real credentials of the task in
question.

current_cred() refers to the effective subjective credentials of the current
task.

prepare_creds() uses the objective creds as a base and commit_creds() changes
both pointers in the task_struct (indeed commit_creds() requires them to be the
same).

override_creds() and revert_creds() change the subjective creds pointer only,
and the former returns the old subjective creds.  These are used by NFSD,
faccessat() and do_coredump(), and will by used by CacheFiles.

In SELinux, current_has_perm() is provided as an alternative to
task_has_perm().  This uses the effective subjective context of current,
whereas task_has_perm() uses the objective/real context of the subject.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
..
auth.c CRED: Differentiate objective and effective subjective credentials on a task 2008-11-14 10:39:26 +11:00
auth.h nfsd: minor fs/nfsd/auth.h cleanup 2008-02-01 16:42:05 -05:00
export.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-10-23 10:22:40 -07:00
lockd.c nfsd: common grace period control 2008-10-03 16:19:02 -04:00
Makefile knfsd: trivial makefile cleanup 2007-05-09 12:30:54 -07:00
nfs2acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3acl.c nfsd: rename MAY_ flags 2008-06-23 13:02:50 -04:00
nfs3proc.c nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
nfs4acl.c nfsd: fix buffer overrun decoding NFSv4 acl 2008-09-01 14:24:24 -04:00
nfs4callback.c nfsd: use nfs client rpc callback program 2008-09-29 18:13:40 -04:00
nfs4idmap.c nfsd: fix sparse warnings 2008-04-23 16:13:39 -04:00
nfs4proc.c nfsd: common grace period control 2008-10-03 16:19:02 -04:00
nfs4recover.c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials 2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
nfs4state.c [PATCH] switch nfsd to kern_path() 2008-10-23 05:12:51 -04:00
nfs4xdr.c nfsd: nfs4xdr decode_stateid helper function 2008-09-29 17:56:59 -04:00
nfscache.c nfsd: fail module init on reply cache init failure 2008-02-01 16:42:04 -05:00
nfsctl.c [PATCH] switch nfsd to kern_path() 2008-10-23 05:12:51 -04:00
nfsfh.c CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials 2008-11-14 10:39:23 +11:00
nfsproc.c nfsd: permit unauthenticated stat of export root 2008-09-29 17:56:56 -04:00
nfssvc.c NFSD: Fix BUG during NFSD shutdown processing 2008-10-22 13:36:05 -04:00
nfsxdr.c Use struct path in struct svc_export 2008-02-14 21:17:08 -08:00
stats.c [PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: add per-operation server stats 2006-07-10 13:24:27 -07:00
vfs.c CRED: Pass credentials through dentry_open() 2008-11-14 10:39:22 +11:00