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LSM Interface

Having discussed the high-level design philosophies of LSM in Section 2, we now turn to the implementation of the LSM interface. At the core, the LSM interface is a large table of functions, which by default are populated with calls that implement the traditional superuser DAC policy. The module writers are then responsible for providing implementations of the functions that they care about. This section provides a detailed analysis of those functions.6Section 3.1 shows how to register a security module. Sections 3.2 through 3.8 are organized by kernel object and discuss the LSM interface available to mediate access to each object.



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James Morris
2002-07-09