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Carlos O'Donell 0699f766b1 nscd: Make SELinux checks dynamic.
The SELinux team has indicated to me that glibc's SELinux checks
in nscd are not being carried out as they would expect the API
to be used today. They would like to move away from static header
defines for class and permissions and instead use dynamic checks
at runtime that provide an answer which is dependent on the runtime
status of SELinux i.e. more dynamic.

The following patch is a minimal change that moves us forward in
this direction.

It does the following:

* Stop checking for SELinux headers that define NSCD__SHMEMHOST.
  Check only for the presence or absence of the library.

* Don't encode the specific SELinux permission constants into a
  table at build time, and instead use the symbolic name for the
  permission as expected.

* Lookup the "What do we do if we don't know this permission?"
  policy and use that if we find SELinux's policy is older than
  the glibc policy e.g. we make a request for a permission that
  SELinux doesn't know about.

* Lastly, translate the class and permission and then make
  the permission check. This is done every time we lookup
  a permission, and this is the expected way to use the API.
  SELinux will optimize this for us, and we expect the network
  latencies to hide these extra library calls.

Tested on x86, x86-64, and via Fedora Rawhide since November 2013.

See:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-04/msg00179.html
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argp Fix __STRICT_ANSI__ -Wundef warnings 2014-03-17 16:05:23 +00:00
assert Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
benchtests benchtests: Improve readability of JSON output 2014-04-11 16:05:03 +01:00
bits Define _STRING_ARCH_unaligned unconditionally 2014-04-09 15:05:36 -05:00
catgets Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests. 2014-03-07 03:31:41 +00:00
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conform Add stardard definition on conform processing 2014-03-18 13:55:48 -05:00
crypt Define _STRING_ARCH_unaligned unconditionally 2014-04-09 15:05:36 -05:00
csu Remove "Compiled on ..." crapola from version text. 2014-03-14 16:05:31 -07:00
ctype Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
debug tst-longjmp_chk2: add comments/sanity check 2014-03-13 17:05:29 -04:00
dirent Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
dlfcn Fix fallout from Joseph's untested Makeconfig change. 2014-02-28 13:00:27 -08:00
elf 2014-04-11 Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> 2014-04-11 11:25:53 -07:00
gmon Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
gnulib Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
grp Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
gshadow Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
hesiod Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
hurd Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
iconv Define _STRING_ARCH_unaligned unconditionally 2014-04-09 15:05:36 -05:00
iconvdata Make tests consistently use *.out output files. 2014-03-07 03:29:23 +00:00
include Compile with -Wundef. 2014-03-14 11:32:51 -07:00
inet Return NULL for wildcard values in getnetgrent from nscd (BZ #16759) 2014-03-27 19:49:51 +05:30
intl Make tests consistently use *.out output files. 2014-03-07 03:29:23 +00:00
io Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
libidn Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
libio Setup LOCPATH for tst-ftell-active-handler and tst-ftell-partial-wide in libio 2014-03-25 12:43:30 +01:00
locale Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
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login Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
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malloc malloc: Fix MALLOC_DEBUG -Wundef warning 2014-04-11 09:54:18 +01:00
manual Fix qsort argument order in collation example 2014-04-12 14:26:29 +10:00
math math: make test-fenv-preserve.c a no-op if FE_ALL_EXCEPT == 0. 2014-04-11 15:13:42 -04:00
misc misc/sys/xattr.h: guard against linux uapi header inclusion 2014-03-18 14:27:56 +01:00
nis Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
nptl Fixed and unified pthread_once. 2014-04-11 15:54:19 +02:00
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nscd nscd: Make SELinux checks dynamic. 2014-04-14 04:10:39 -04:00
nss Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
po Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
ports Fixed and unified pthread_once. 2014-04-11 15:54:19 +02:00
posix Use += before-compile instead of a :=. 2014-03-24 16:59:01 +01:00
pwd Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
resolv Fix typo in comment in res_query.c 2014-04-11 15:19:49 +05:30
resource Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
rt Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
scripts Kludge fix for Versions.def regression 2014-03-25 15:00:34 -07:00
setjmp Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
shadow Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
signal Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
socket Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
soft-fp Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
stdio-common Revert "Fix _IO_JUMPS_OFFSET -Wundef warnings" 2014-03-17 20:37:42 +00:00
stdlib Enumerate tests with special rules in tests-special variable. 2014-03-06 22:35:33 +00:00
streams Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
string string: Cosmetic cleanup of string functions 2014-04-07 09:44:02 +01:00
sunrpc Fix fallout from Joseph's untested Makeconfig change. 2014-02-28 13:00:27 -08:00
sysdeps Regenerate sparc ULPs. 2014-04-13 18:27:19 -07:00
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time Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
timezone Count miscellaneous files built on host for testing as tests. 2014-03-07 03:31:41 +00:00
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wctype Consistently include Makeconfig after defining subdir. 2014-02-26 23:12:03 +00:00
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config.h.in Save/restore bound registers in _dl_runtime_resolve 2014-04-09 15:38:09 -07:00
config.make.in PowerPC: define _CALL_ELF if compiler does not 2014-04-06 16:48:08 -05:00
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shlib-versions PowerPC: Change powerpc64le start ABI to 2.17. 2014-02-04 09:49:08 -02:00
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