Documentation/userspace-api/lsm.rst

6 Linux Security Modules
12 Linux security modules (LSM) provide a mechanism to implement
13 additional access controls to the Linux security policies.
15 The various security modules may support any of these attributes:
17 ``LSM_ATTR_CURRENT`` is the current, active security context of the
20 This is supported by the SELinux, Smack and AppArmor security modules.
24 ``LSM_ATTR_EXEC`` is the security context of the process at the time the
27 This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
30 ``LSM_ATTR_FSCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
33 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
35 ``LSM_ATTR_KEYCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
38 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
40 ``LSM_ATTR_PREV`` is the security context of the process at the time the
41 current security context was set.
43 This is supported by the SELinux and AppArmor security modules.
46 ``LSM_ATTR_SOCKCREATE`` is the security context of the process used when
49 This is supported by the SELinux security module.
54 Set a security attribute of the current process
57 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
60 Get the specified security attributes of the current process
63 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
66 .. kernel-doc:: security/lsm_syscalls.c
72 * Documentation/security/lsm.rst
73 * Documentation/security/lsm-development.rst