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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..49ed9c8fd1e5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-selinux-checkreqprot @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +What: /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot +Date: April 2005 (predates git) +KernelVersion: 2.6.12-rc2 (predates git) +Contact: selinux@vger.kernel.org +Description: + + The selinuxfs "checkreqprot" node allows SELinux to be configured + to check the protection requested by userspace for mmap/mprotect + calls instead of the actual protection applied by the kernel. + This was a compatibility mechanism for legacy userspace and + for the READ_IMPLIES_EXEC personality flag. However, if set to + 1, it weakens security by allowing mappings to be made executable + without authorization by policy. The default value of checkreqprot + at boot was changed starting in Linux v4.4 to 0 (i.e. check the + actual protection), and Android and Linux distributions have been + explicitly writing a "0" to /sys/fs/selinux/checkreqprot during + initialization for some time. Support for setting checkreqprot to 1 + will be removed in a future kernel release, at which point the kernel + will always cease using checkreqprot internally and will always + check the actual protections being applied upon mmap/mprotect calls. + The checkreqprot selinuxfs node will remain for backward compatibility + but will discard writes of the "0" value and will reject writes of the + "1" value when this mechanism is removed. |