avc_has_perm(3) — Linux manual page

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avc_has_perm(3)         SELinux API documentation        avc_has_perm(3)

NAME         top

       avc_has_perm, avc_has_perm_noaudit, avc_audit, avc_entry_ref_init
       - obtain and audit SELinux access decisions

SYNOPSIS         top

       #include <selinux/selinux.h>
       #include <selinux/avc.h>

       void avc_entry_ref_init(struct avc_entry_ref *aeref);

       int avc_has_perm(security_id_t ssid, security_id_t tsid,
                        security_class_t tclass, access_vector_t
                        requested,
                        struct avc_entry_ref *aeref, void *auditdata);

       int avc_has_perm_noaudit(security_id_t ssid, security_id_t tsid,
                        security_class_t tclass, access_vector_t
                        requested,
                        struct avc_entry_ref *aeref, struct av_decision
                        *avd);

       void avc_audit(security_id_t ssid, security_id_t tsid,
                      security_class_t tclass, access_vector_t
                      requested,
                      struct av_decision *avd, int result, void
                      *auditdata);

DESCRIPTION         top

       Direct use of these functions is generally discouraged in favor
       of the higher level interface selinux_check_access(3) since the
       latter automatically handles the dynamic mapping of class and
       permission names to their policy values and proper handling of
       allow_unknown.

       When using any of the functions that take policy integer values
       for classes or permissions as inputs, use
       string_to_security_class(3) and string_to_av_perm(3) to map the
       class and permission names to their policy values.  These values
       may change across a policy reload, so they should be re-acquired
       on every use or using a SELINUX_CB_POLICYLOAD callback set via
       selinux_set_callback(3).

       An alternative approach is to use selinux_set_mapping(3) to
       create a mapping from class and permission index values used by
       the application to the policy values, thereby allowing the
       application to pass its own fixed constants for the classes and
       permissions to these functions and internally mapping them on
       demand.  However, this also requires setting up a callback as
       above to address policy reloads.

       avc_entry_ref_init() initializes an avc_entry_ref structure; see
       ENTRY REFERENCES below.  This function may be implemented as a
       macro.

       avc_has_perm() checks whether the requested permissions are
       granted for subject SID ssid and target SID tsid, interpreting
       the permissions based on tclass and updating aeref, if non-NULL,
       to refer to a cache entry with the resulting decision.  The
       granting or denial of permissions is audited in accordance with
       the policy.  The auditdata parameter is for supplemental
       auditing; see avc_audit() below.

       avc_has_perm_noaudit() behaves as avc_has_perm() without
       producing an audit message.  The access decision is returned in
       avd and can be passed to avc_audit() explicitly.

       avc_audit() produces an audit message for the access query
       represented by ssid, tsid, tclass, and requested, with a decision
       represented by avd.  Pass the value returned by
       avc_has_perm_noaudit() as result.  The auditdata parameter is
       passed to the user-supplied func_audit callback and can be used
       to add supplemental information to the audit message; see
       avc_init(3).

ENTRY REFERENCES         top

       Entry references can be used to speed cache performance for
       repeated queries on the same subject and target.  The userspace
       AVC will check the aeref argument, if supplied, before searching
       the cache on a permission query.  After a query is performed,
       aeref will be updated to reference the cache entry for that
       query.  A subsequent query on the same subject and target will
       then have the decision at hand without having to walk the cache.

       After declaring an avc_entry_ref structure, use
       avc_entry_ref_init() to initialize it before passing it to
       avc_has_perm() or avc_has_perm_noaudit() for the first time.
       Using an uninitialized structure will produce undefined behavior.

RETURN VALUE         top

       If requested permissions are granted, zero is returned.  If
       requested permissions are denied or an error occurred, -1 is
       returned and errno is set appropriately.

       In permissive mode, zero will be returned and errno unchanged
       even if permissions were denied.  avc_has_perm() will still
       produce an audit message in this case.

ERRORS         top

       EACCES A requested permission was denied.

       EINVAL The tclass and/or the security contexts referenced by ssid
              and tsid are not recognized by the currently loaded
              policy.

       ENOMEM An attempt to allocate memory failed.

NOTES         top

       Internal errors encountered by the userspace AVC may cause
       certain values of errno to be returned unexpectedly.  For
       example, netlink socket errors may produce EACCES or EINVAL.
       Make sure that userspace object managers are granted appropriate
       access to netlink by the policy.

AUTHOR         top

       Originally Eamon Walsh.  Updated by Stephen Smalley
       <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>

SEE ALSO         top

       selinux_check_access(3), string_to_security_class(3),
       string_to_av_perm(3), selinux_set_callback(3),
       selinux_set_mapping(3), avc_init(3), avc_context_to_sid(3),
       avc_cache_stats(3), avc_add_callback(3), security_compute_av(3),
       selinux(8)

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the selinux (Security-Enhanced Linux user-
       space libraries and tools) project.  Information about the
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                               27 May 2004               avc_has_perm(3)

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