and installation. Particularly it does the following:
- the Makefile installs the ACM security-related tools
into /etc/xen/acm-security
- improves and cleans up some of the tools
- updates the documentation
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <toml@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
1. adapts ACM hooks to the slightly changed event channel structure
2. introduces an ACM_GETDECISION command, which enables authorized
domains to retrieve policy decisions regarding the sharing of resources
(STE policy) from the Xen hypervisor
3. includes cleanup (warnings I found when applying analysis tools such
as beam or flawfinder to the ACM code)
The get_decision function is useful to enforce:
* the security policy on network traffic in the network backends in
domain 0; currently there is no enforcement in Dom0 and all packets flow
freely
* the security policy in block device backends to control which
domains can access which vdisk resources
I have added a small test program that shows how to use the get_decision
ACM interface call, it is in tools/security/get_decision.c and will be
compiled together with the policy tools. As usual, the ACM is unconfigured
until you switch on a security policy on in Config.mk.
Signed-off: Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
* adds a get_ssid ACM command that allows privileged domains to retrieve
types for either a given ssid reference or a given domain id (of a running
domain); this command can be used to extend access control into device
domains, e.g., to control network traffic currently moving through Domain
0 uncontrolled by the ACM policy
* adds a script getlabel.sh that allows users inside Dom0 to retrieve the
label for a given ssid reference or a given domain id (multiple labels
might map onto a single ssid reference)
* cleans up label-related code in tools/security by merging common
functions into labelfuncs.sh
* cleans up ACM code related to above changes (eventually approximating a
common coding style)
Signed-off-by Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off by Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
* adds a C-based security policy translation tool to Xen (secpol_xml2bin)
and removes the current Java
security policy translator (Java dependencies). The C-based tool
integrates into the Xen source tree build
and install (using gnome libxml2 for XML parsing). See install.txt.
* introduces security labels and related tools. Users can now use
semantic-rich label names to put security-tags
on domains. See example.txt, policy.txt.
* moves the security configuration (currently ACM_USE_SECURITY_POLICY)
from xen/Rules.mk
into a separate top-level Security.mk file (it is needed by the
tools/security and xen/acm).
Both xen/acm and tools/security are built during the Xen build process
only if ACM_USE_SECURITY_POLICY
is not ACM_NULL_POLICY (which is the default setting).
Signed-off-by Reiner Sailer <sailer@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off by Stefan Berger <stefanb@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off by Ray Valdez <rvaldez@us.ibm.com>
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