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authorJohn Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>2010-07-29 17:47:57 -0400
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2010-08-02 01:35:11 -0400
commitcdff264264254e0fabc8107a33f3bb75a95e981f (patch)
treea20956e2a7a38e195071ded57fca02e1d1b1314c /security/apparmor/lib.c
parente6f6a4cc955d626ed26562d98de5766bf1f73526 (diff)
AppArmor: misc. base functions and defines
Miscellaneous functions and defines needed by AppArmor, including the base path resolution routines. Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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1/*
2 * AppArmor security module
3 *
4 * This file contains basic common functions used in AppArmor
5 *
6 * Copyright (C) 1998-2008 Novell/SUSE
7 * Copyright 2009-2010 Canonical Ltd.
8 *
9 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
10 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
11 * published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
12 * License.
13 */
14
15#include <linux/slab.h>
16#include <linux/string.h>
17#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
18
19#include "include/audit.h"
20
21
22/**
23 * aa_split_fqname - split a fqname into a profile and namespace name
24 * @fqname: a full qualified name in namespace profile format (NOT NULL)
25 * @ns_name: pointer to portion of the string containing the ns name (NOT NULL)
26 *
27 * Returns: profile name or NULL if one is not specified
28 *
29 * Split a namespace name from a profile name (see policy.c for naming
30 * description). If a portion of the name is missing it returns NULL for
31 * that portion.
32 *
33 * NOTE: may modify the @fqname string. The pointers returned point
34 * into the @fqname string.
35 */
36char *aa_split_fqname(char *fqname, char **ns_name)
37{
38 char *name = strim(fqname);
39
40 *ns_name = NULL;
41 if (name[0] == ':') {
42 char *split = strchr(&name[1], ':');
43 if (split) {
44 /* overwrite ':' with \0 */
45 *split = 0;
46 name = skip_spaces(split + 1);
47 } else
48 /* a ns name without a following profile is allowed */
49 name = NULL;
50 *ns_name = &name[1];
51 }
52 if (name && *name == 0)
53 name = NULL;
54
55 return name;
56}
57
58/**
59 * aa_info_message - log a none profile related status message
60 * @str: message to log
61 */
62void aa_info_message(const char *str)
63{
64 if (audit_enabled) {
65 struct common_audit_data sa;
66 COMMON_AUDIT_DATA_INIT(&sa, NONE);
67 sa.aad.info = str;
68 aa_audit_msg(AUDIT_APPARMOR_STATUS, &sa, NULL);
69 }
70 printk(KERN_INFO "AppArmor: %s\n", str);
71}
72
73/**
74 * kvmalloc - do allocation preferring kmalloc but falling back to vmalloc
75 * @size: size of allocation
76 *
77 * Return: allocated buffer or NULL if failed
78 *
79 * It is possible that policy being loaded from the user is larger than
80 * what can be allocated by kmalloc, in those cases fall back to vmalloc.
81 */
82void *kvmalloc(size_t size)
83{
84 void *buffer = NULL;
85
86 if (size == 0)
87 return NULL;
88
89 /* do not attempt kmalloc if we need more than 16 pages at once */
90 if (size <= (16*PAGE_SIZE))
91 buffer = kmalloc(size, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_NOWARN);
92 if (!buffer) {
93 /* see kvfree for why size must be at least work_struct size
94 * when allocated via vmalloc
95 */
96 if (size < sizeof(struct work_struct))
97 size = sizeof(struct work_struct);
98 buffer = vmalloc(size);
99 }
100 return buffer;
101}
102
103/**
104 * do_vfree - workqueue routine for freeing vmalloced memory
105 * @work: data to be freed
106 *
107 * The work_struct is overlaid to the data being freed, as at the point
108 * the work is scheduled the data is no longer valid, be its freeing
109 * needs to be delayed until safe.
110 */
111static void do_vfree(struct work_struct *work)
112{
113 vfree(work);
114}
115
116/**
117 * kvfree - free an allocation do by kvmalloc
118 * @buffer: buffer to free (MAYBE_NULL)
119 *
120 * Free a buffer allocated by kvmalloc
121 */
122void kvfree(void *buffer)
123{
124 if (is_vmalloc_addr(buffer)) {
125 /* Data is no longer valid so just use the allocated space
126 * as the work_struct
127 */
128 struct work_struct *work = (struct work_struct *) buffer;
129 INIT_WORK(work, do_vfree);
130 schedule_work(work);
131 } else
132 kfree(buffer);
133}