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phk
f43aa0c4bc add missing #include <sys/module.h> 2004-05-30 20:27:19 +00:00
rwatson
b8e797cfe0 Coalesce pipe allocations and frees. Previously, the pipe code
would allocate two 'struct pipe's from the pipe zone, and malloc a
mutex.

- Create a new "struct pipepair" object holding the two 'struct
  pipe' instances, struct mutex, and struct label reference.  Pipe
  structures now have a back-pointer to the pipe pair, and a
  'pipe_present' flag to indicate whether the half has been
  closed.

- Perform mutex init/destroy in zone init/destroy, avoiding
  reallocating the mutex for each pipe.  Perform most pipe structure
  setup in zone constructor.

- VM memory mappings for pageable buffers are still done outside of
  the UMA zone.

- Change MAC API to speak 'struct pipepair' instead of 'struct pipe',
  update many policies.  MAC labels are also handled outside of the
  UMA zone for now.  Label-only policy modules don't have to be
  recompiled, but if a module is recompiled, its pipe entry points
  will need to be updated.  If a module actually reached into the
  pipe structures (unlikely), that would also need to be modified.

These changes substantially simplify failure handling in the pipe
code as there are many fewer possible failure modes.

On half-close, pipes no longer free the 'struct pipe' for the closed
half until a full-close takes place.  However, VM mapped buffers
are still released on half-close.

Some code refactoring is now possible to clean up some of the back
references, etc; this patch attempts not to change the structure
of most of the pipe implementation, only allocation/free code
paths, so as to avoid introducing bugs (hopefully).

This cuts about 8%-9% off the cost of sequential pipe allocation
and free in system call tests on UP and SMP in my micro-benchmarks.
May or may not make a difference in macro-benchmarks, but doing
less work is good.

Reviewed by:	juli, tjr
Testing help:	dwhite, fenestro, scottl, et al
2004-02-01 05:56:51 +00:00
rwatson
77ed6e2d1c Modify the MAC Framework so that instead of embedding a (struct label)
in various kernel objects to represent security data, we embed a
(struct label *) pointer, which now references labels allocated using
a UMA zone (mac_label.c).  This allows the size and shape of struct
label to be varied without changing the size and shape of these kernel
objects, which become part of the frozen ABI with 5-STABLE.  This opens
the door for boot-time selection of the number of label slots, and hence
changes to the bound on the number of simultaneous labeled policies
at boot-time instead of compile-time.  This also makes it easier to
embed label references in new objects as required for locking/caching
with fine-grained network stack locking, such as inpcb structures.

This change also moves us further in the direction of hiding the
structure of kernel objects from MAC policy modules, not to mention
dramatically reducing the number of '&' symbols appearing in both the
MAC Framework and MAC policy modules, and improving readability.

While this results in minimal performance change with MAC enabled, it
will observably shrink the size of a number of critical kernel data
structures for the !MAC case, and should have a small (but measurable)
performance benefit (i.e., struct vnode, struct socket) do to memory
conservation and reduced cost of zeroing memory.

NOTE: Users of MAC must recompile their kernel and all MAC modules as a
result of this change.  Because this is an API change, third party
MAC modules will also need to be updated to make less use of the '&'
symbol.

Suggestions from:	bmilekic
Obtained from:		TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:		DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-11-12 03:14:31 +00:00
rwatson
c7fff281b1 Remove the flags argument from mac_externalize_*_label(), as it's not
passed into policies or used internally to the MAC Framework.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-11-06 03:42:43 +00:00
rwatson
2e83725f4a Make MAC_EXTERNALIZE() and MAC_INTERNALIZE() simply take the object
type, rather than "object_label" as the first argument.  This reduces
complexity a little for the consumer, and also makes it easier for
use to rename the underlying entry points in struct mac_policy_obj.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-10-25 15:28:20 +00:00
rwatson
07917a99a1 Remove non-pipe code from mac_pipe.c. Leave:
Pipe enforcement flag.
  Pipe object debugging counters.
  MALLOC type for MAC label storage.
  Pipe MAC label management routines, externalize/internalization/change
    routines.
  Pipe MAC access control checks.

Un-staticize functions called from mac_set_fd() when operating on a
pipe.  Abstraction improvements in this space seem likely.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-10-22 19:31:57 +00:00
rwatson
0e5948bb6b If the struct mac copied into the kernel has a negative length, return
EINVAL rather than failing the following malloc due to the value being
too large.
2003-09-29 18:35:17 +00:00
rwatson
c020f70195 Fix a mac_policy_list reference to be a mac_static_policy_list
reference: this fixes mac_syscall() for static policies when using
optimized locking.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponosred by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-08-26 17:29:02 +00:00
rwatson
32ed1a62a8 Introduce two new MAC Framework and MAC policy entry points:
mac_reflect_mbuf_icmp()
  mac_reflect_mbuf_tcp()

These entry points permit MAC policies to do "update in place"
changes to the labels on ICMP and TCP mbuf headers when an ICMP or
TCP response is generated to a packet outside of the context of
an existing socket.  For example, in respond to a ping or a RST
packet to a SYN on a closed port.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-08-21 18:21:22 +00:00
rwatson
6f522a9e52 Add mac_check_vnode_deleteextattr() and mac_check_vnode_listextattr():
explicit access control checks to delete and list extended attributes
on a vnode, rather than implicitly combining with the setextattr and
getextattr checks.  This reflects EA API changes in the kernel made
recently, including the move to explicit VOP's for both of these
operations.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD PRoject
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-08-21 13:53:01 +00:00
rwatson
85df7c20ad Remove about 40 lines of #ifdef/#endif by using new macros
MAC_DEBUG_COUNTER_INC() and MAC_DEBUG_COUNTER_DEC() to maintain
debugging counter values rather than #ifdef'ing the atomic
operations to MAC_DEBUG.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-08-20 19:16:49 +00:00
rwatson
23fd91f044 Attempt to simplify #ifdef logic for MAC_ALWAYS_LABEL_MBUF.
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-08-01 15:45:14 +00:00
rwatson
80e2b7dc48 Redesign the externalization APIs from the MAC Framework to
the MAC policy modules to improve robustness against C string
bugs and vulnerabilities.  Following these revisions, all
string construction of labels for export to userspace (or
elsewhere) is performed using the sbuf API, which prevents
the consumer from having to perform laborious and intricate
pointer and buffer checks.  This substantially simplifies
the externalization logic, both at the MAC Framework level,
and in individual policies; this becomes especially useful
when policies export more complex label data, such as with
compartments in Biba and MLS.

Bundled in here are some other minor fixes associated with
externalization: including avoiding malloc while holding the
process mutex in mac_lomac, and hence avoid a failure mode
when printing labels during a downgrade operation due to
the removal of the M_NOWAIT case.

This has been running in the MAC development tree for about
three weeks without problems.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-06-23 01:26:34 +00:00
phk
c81c59299b Add a f_vnode field to struct file.
Several of the subtypes have an associated vnode which is used for
stuff like the f*() functions.

By giving the vnode a speparate field, a number of checks for the specific
subtype can be replaced simply with a check for f_vnode != NULL, and
we can later free f_data up to subtype specific use.

At this point in time, f_data still points to the vnode, so any code I
might have overlooked will still work.
2003-06-22 08:41:43 +00:00
obrien
3b8fff9e4c Use __FBSDID(). 2003-06-11 00:56:59 +00:00
rwatson
1a81aef457 Rename MAC_MAX_POLICIES to MAC_MAX_SLOTS, since the variables and
constants in question refer to the number of label slots, not the
maximum number of policies that may be loaded.  This should reduce
confusion regarding an element in the MAC sysctl MIB, as well as
make it more clear what the affect of changing the compile-time
constants is.

Approved by:	re (jhb)
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-05-08 19:49:42 +00:00
rwatson
cdd2c23d20 Clean up locking for the MAC Framework:
(1) Accept that we're now going to use mutexes, so don't attempt
    to avoid treating them as mutexes.  This cleans up locking
    accessor function names some.

(2) Rename variables to _mtx, _cv, _count, simplifying the naming.

(3) Add a new form of the _busy() primitive that conditionally
    makes the list busy: if there are entries on the list, bump
    the busy count.  If there are no entries, don't bump the busy
    count.  Return a boolean indicating whether or not the busy
    count was bumped.

(4) Break mac_policy_list into two lists: one with the same name
    holding dynamic policies, and a new list, mac_static_policy_list,
    which holds policies loaded before mac_late and without the
    unload flag set.  The static list may be accessed without
    holding the busy count, since it can't change at run-time.

(5) In general, prefer making the list busy conditionally, meaning
    we pay only one mutex lock per entry point if all modules are
    on the static list, rather than two (since we don't have to
    lower the busy count when we're done with the framework).  For
    systems running just Biba or MLS, this will halve the mutex
    accesses in the network stack, and may offer a substantial
    performance benefits.

(6) Lay the groundwork for a dynamic-free kernel option which
    eliminates all locking associated with dynamically loaded or
    unloaded policies, for pre-configured systems requiring
    maximum performance but less run-time flexibility.

These changes have been running for a few weeks on MAC development
branch systems.

Approved by:	re (jhb)
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-05-07 17:49:24 +00:00
alc
87da2c3cf3 - Acquire the vm_object's lock when performing vm_object_page_clean().
- Add a parameter to vm_pageout_flush() that tells vm_pageout_flush()
   whether its caller has locked the vm_object.  (This is a temporary
   measure to bootstrap vm_object locking.)
2003-04-24 04:31:25 +00:00
rwatson
9abedb6965 Update NAI copyright to 2003, missed in earlier commits and merges. 2003-04-18 19:57:37 +00:00
rwatson
ee95862054 mac_init_mbuf_tag() accepts malloc flags, not mbuf allocator flags, so
don't try and convert the argument flags to malloc flags, or we risk
implicitly requesting blocking and generating witness warnings.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-04-15 19:33:23 +00:00
rwatson
53a050aac3 Move MAC label storage for mbufs into m_tags from the m_pkthdr structure,
returning some additional room in the first mbuf in a chain, and
avoiding feature-specific contents in the mbuf header.  To do this:

- Modify mbuf_to_label() to extract the tag, returning NULL if not
  found.

- Introduce mac_init_mbuf_tag() which does most of the work
  mac_init_mbuf() used to do, except on an m_tag rather than an
  mbuf.

- Scale back mac_init_mbuf() to perform m_tag allocation and invoke
  mac_init_mbuf_tag().

- Replace mac_destroy_mbuf() with mac_destroy_mbuf_tag(), since
  m_tag's are now GC'd deep in the m_tag/mbuf code rather than
  at a higher level when mbufs are directly free()'d.

- Add mac_copy_mbuf_tag() to support m_copy_pkthdr() and related
  notions.

- Generally change all references to mbuf labels so that they use
  mbuf_to_label() rather than &mbuf->m_pkthdr.label.  This
  required no changes in the MAC policies (yay!).

- Tweak mbuf release routines to not call mac_destroy_mbuf(),
  tag destruction takes care of it for us now.

- Remove MAC magic from m_copy_pkthdr() and m_move_pkthdr() --
  the existing m_tag support does all this for us.  Note that
  we can no longer just zero the m_tag list on the target mbuf,
  rather, we have to delete the chain because m_tag's will
  already be hung off freshly allocated mbuf's.

- Tweak m_tag copying routines so that if we're copying a MAC
  m_tag, we don't do a binary copy, rather, we initialize the
  new storage and do a deep copy of the label.

- Remove use of MAC_FLAG_INITIALIZED in a few bizarre places
  having to do with mbuf header copies previously.

- When an mbuf is copied in ip_input(), we no longer need to
  explicitly copy the label because it will get handled by the
  m_tag code now.

- No longer any weird handling of MAC labels in if_loop.c during
  header copies.

- Add MPC_LOADTIME_FLAG_LABELMBUFS flag to Biba, MLS, mac_test.
  In mac_test, handle the label==NULL case, since it can be
  dynamically loaded.

In order to improve performance with this change, introduce the notion
of "lazy MAC label allocation" -- only allocate m_tag storage for MAC
labels if we're running with a policy that uses MAC labels on mbufs.
Policies declare this intent by setting the MPC_LOADTIME_FLAG_LABELMBUFS
flag in their load-time flags field during declaration.  Note: this
opens up the possibility of post-boot policy modules getting back NULL
slot entries even though they have policy invariants of non-NULL slot
entries, as the policy might have been loaded after the mbuf was
allocated, leaving the mbuf without label storage.  Policies that cannot
handle this case must be declared as NOTLATE, or must be modified.

- mac_labelmbufs holds the current cumulative status as to whether
  any policies require mbuf labeling or not.  This is updated whenever
  the active policy set changes by the function mac_policy_updateflags().
  The function iterates the list and checks whether any have the
  flag set.  Write access to this variable is protected by the policy
  list; read access is currently not protected for performance reasons.
  This might change if it causes problems.

- Add MAC_POLICY_LIST_ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE() to permit the flags update
  function to assert appropriate locks.

- This makes allocation in mac_init_mbuf() conditional on the flag.

Reviewed by:	sam
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-04-14 20:39:06 +00:00
rwatson
0cf8c3b34b Abstract access to the mbuf header label behind a new function,
mbuf_to_label().  This permits the vast majority of entry point code
to be unaware that labels are stored in m->m_pkthdr.label, such that
we can experiment storage of labels elsewhere (such as in m_tags).

Reviewed by:	sam
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-04-14 18:11:18 +00:00
des
567ac2b268 Introduce an M_ASSERTPKTHDR() macro which performs the very common task
of asserting that an mbuf has a packet header.  Use it instead of hand-
rolled versions wherever applicable.

Submitted by:	Hiten Pandya <hiten@unixdaemons.com>
2003-04-08 14:25:47 +00:00
rwatson
e5680de54a Modify the mac_init_ipq() MAC Framework entry point to accept an
additional flags argument to indicate blocking disposition, and
pass in M_NOWAIT from the IP reassembly code to indicate that
blocking is not OK when labeling a new IP fragment reassembly
queue.  This should eliminate some of the WITNESS warnings that
have started popping up since fine-grained IP stack locking
started going in; if memory allocation fails, the creation of
the fragment queue will be aborted.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-03-26 15:12:03 +00:00
rwatson
7974609efe Instrument sysarch() MD privileged I/O access interfaces with a MAC
check, mac_check_sysarch_ioperm(), permitting MAC security policy
modules to control access to these interfaces.  Currently, they
protect access to IOPL on i386, and setting HAE on Alpha.
Additional checks might be required on other platforms to prevent
bypass of kernel security protections by unauthorized processes.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-03-06 04:47:47 +00:00
rwatson
9ecf925a7d Provide a mac_check_system_swapoff() entry point, which permits MAC
modules to authorize disabling of swap against a particular vnode.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2003-03-05 23:50:15 +00:00
jhb
e4bcd25517 Replace calls to WITNESS_SLEEP() and witness_list() with equivalent calls
to WITNESS_WARN().
2003-03-04 21:03:05 +00:00
imp
cf874b345d Back out M_* changes, per decision of the TRB.
Approved by: trb
2003-02-19 05:47:46 +00:00
alfred
bf8e8a6e8f Remove M_TRYWAIT/M_WAITOK/M_WAIT. Callers should use 0.
Merge M_NOWAIT/M_DONTWAIT into a single flag M_NOWAIT.
2003-01-21 08:56:16 +00:00
dillon
ccd5574cc6 Bow to the whining masses and change a union back into void *. Retain
removal of unnecessary casts and throw in some minor cleanups to see if
anyone complains, just for the hell of it.
2003-01-13 00:33:17 +00:00
dillon
ddf9ef103e Change struct file f_data to un_data, a union of the correct struct
pointer types, and remove a huge number of casts from code using it.

Change struct xfile xf_data to xun_data (ABI is still compatible).

If we need to add a #define for f_data and xf_data we can, but I don't
think it will be necessary.  There are no operational changes in this
commit.
2003-01-12 01:37:13 +00:00
alfred
d070c0a52d SCARGS removal take II. 2002-12-14 01:56:26 +00:00
alfred
4f48184fb2 Backout removal SCARGS, the code freeze is only "selectively" over. 2002-12-13 22:41:47 +00:00
alfred
d19b4e039d Remove SCARGS.
Reviewed by: md5
2002-12-13 22:27:25 +00:00
rwatson
c5caffe9c4 Remove dm_root entry from struct devfs_mount. It's never set, and is
unused.  Replace it with a dm_mount back-pointer to the struct mount
that the devfs_mount is associated with.  Export that pointer to MAC
Framework entry points, where all current policies don't use the
pointer.  This permits the SEBSD port of SELinux's FLASK/TE to compile
out-of-the-box on 5.0-CURRENT with full file system labeling support.

Approved by:	re (murray)
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-12-09 03:44:28 +00:00
rwatson
2f11222833 Un-staticize mac_cred_mmapped_drop_perms() so that it may be used
by policy modules making use of downgrades in the MAC AST event.  This
is required by the mac_lomac port of LOMAC to the MAC Framework.

Approved by:	re
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-26 17:11:57 +00:00
rwatson
569048d3f9 Introduce p_label, extensible security label storage for the MAC framework
in struct proc.  While the process label is actually stored in the
struct ucred pointed to by p_ucred, there is a need for transient
storage that may be used when asynchronous (deferred) updates need to
be performed on the "real" label for locking reasons.  Unlike other
label storage, this label has no locking semantics, relying on policies
to provide their own protection for the label contents, meaning that
a policy leaf mutex may be used, avoiding lock order issues.  This
permits policies that act based on historical process behavior (such
as audit policies, the MAC Framework port of LOMAC, etc) can update
process properties even when many existing locks are held without
violating the lock order.  No currently committed policies implement use
of this label storage.

Approved by:	re
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-20 15:41:25 +00:00
rwatson
3753917a2e Merge kld access control checks from the MAC tree: these access control
checks permit policy modules to augment the system policy for permitting
kld operations.  This permits policies to limit access to kld operations
based on credential (and other) properties, as well as to perform checks
on the kld being loaded (integrity, etc).

Approved by:	re
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-19 22:12:42 +00:00
rwatson
9dde910437 Introduce a condition variable to avoid returning EBUSY when
the MAC policy list is busy during a load or unload attempt.
We assert no locks held during the cv wait, meaning we should
be fairly deadlock-safe.  Because of the cv model and busy
count, it's possible for a cv waiter waiting for exclusive
access to the policy list to be starved by active and
long-lived access control/labeling events.  For now, we
accept that as a necessary tradeoff.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-13 15:47:09 +00:00
rwatson
1e2f849511 Garbage collect mac_create_devfs_vnode() -- it hasn't been used since
we brought in the new cache and locking model for vnode labels.  We
now rely on mac_associate_devfs_vnode().

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-12 04:20:36 +00:00
rwatson
01cba722c4 Garbage collect definition of M_MACOPVEC -- we no longer perform a
dynamic mapping of an operation vector into an operation structure,
rather, we rely on C99 sparse structure initialization.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-11 14:15:58 +00:00
rwatson
95c4afbed0 Add an explicit execlabel argument to exec-related MAC policy entry
points, rather than relying on policies to grub around in the
image activator instance structure.

Approved by:	re
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-08 18:04:00 +00:00
rwatson
6c4f4d26f4 Bring in two sets of changes:
(1) Permit userland applications to request a change of label atomic
    with an execve() via mac_execve().  This is required for the
    SEBSD port of SELinux/FLASK.  Attempts to invoke this without
    MAC compiled in result in ENOSYS, as with all other MAC system
    calls.  Complexity, if desired, is present in policy modules,
    rather than the framework.

(2) Permit policies to have access to both the label of the vnode
    being executed as well as the interpreter if it's a shell
    script or related UNIX nonsense.  Because we can't hold both
    vnode locks at the same time, cache the interpreter label.
    SEBSD relies on this because it supports secure transitioning
    via shell script executables.  Other policies might want to
    take both labels into account during an integrity or
    confidentiality decision at execve()-time.

Approved by:	re
Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-05 17:51:56 +00:00
rwatson
373a915367 Assert that appropriate vnodes are locked in mac_execve_will_transition().
Allow transitioning to be twiddled off using the process and fs enforcement
flags, although at some point this should probably be its own flag.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-05 15:11:33 +00:00
rwatson
b8dd64f5ef Permit MAC policies to instrument the access control decisions for
system accounting configuration and for nfsd server thread attach.
Policies might use this to protect the integrity or confidentiality
of accounting data, limit the ability to turn on or off accounting,
as well as to prevent inappropriately labeled threads from becoming nfs
server threads.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-04 15:13:36 +00:00
rwatson
8f2b40ef3f Remove mac_cache_fslabel_in_vnode sysctl -- with the new VFS/MAC
construction, labels are always cached.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-04 14:55:14 +00:00
rwatson
89cdee7c52 License clarification and wording changes: NAI has approved removal of
clause three, and NAI Labs now goes by the name Network Associates
Laboratories.
2002-11-04 01:42:39 +00:00
rwatson
7537530ad8 Introduce mac_check_system_settime(), a MAC check allowing policies to
augment the system policy for changing the system time.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-03 02:39:42 +00:00
rwatson
61ffc1b9bb Add MAC checks for various kenv() operations: dump, get, set, unset,
permitting MAC policies to limit access to the kernel environment.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-11-01 20:46:53 +00:00
rwatson
122a6b9ad2 Move to C99 sparse structure initialization for the mac_policy_ops
structure definition, rather than using an operation vector
we translate into the structure.  Originally, we used a vector
for two reasons:

(1) We wanted to define the structure sparsely, which wasn't
    supported by the C compiler for structures.  For a policy
    with five entry points, you don't want to have to stick in
    a few hundred NULL function pointers.

(2) We thought it would improve ABI compatibility allowing modules
    to work with kernels that had a superset of the entry points
    defined in the module, even if the kernel had changed its
    entry point set.

Both of these no longer apply:

(1) C99 gives us a way to sparsely define a static structure.

(2) The ABI problems existed anyway, due to enumeration numbers,
    argument changes, and semantic mismatches.  Since the going
    rule for FreeBSD is that you really need your modules to
    pretty closely match your kernel, it's not worth the
    complexity.

This submit eliminates the operation vector, dynamic allocation
of the operation structure, copying of the vector to the
structure, and redoes the vectors in each policy to direct
structure definitions.  One enourmous benefit of this change
is that we now get decent type checking on policy entry point
implementation arguments.

Obtained from:	TrustedBSD Project
Sponsored by:	DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
2002-10-30 18:48:51 +00:00