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| author |   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2019-06-12 14:52:52 -0300 |
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| committer |   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2019-06-14 14:23:30 -0600 |
| commit | 593733ab80ac2c607acc1fc3fbaba5031d38253a (patch) | |
| tree | d7cc25050c596e7843fc2ad013812aeebc35a793 /Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst | |
| parent | docs: mic: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-593733ab80ac2c607acc1fc3fbaba5031d38253a.tar.xz linux-dev-593733ab80ac2c607acc1fc3fbaba5031d38253a.zip | |
docs: netlabel: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
Convert netlabel documentation to ReST.
This was trivial: just add proper title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst (renamed from Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt) | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst index 638c74f7de7f..026fc267f798 100644 --- a/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/netlabel/lsm_interface.rst @@ -1,10 +1,13 @@ +======================================== NetLabel Linux Security Module Interface -============================================================================== +======================================== + Paul Moore, paul.moore@hp.com May 17, 2006 - * Overview +Overview +======== NetLabel is a mechanism which can set and retrieve security attributes from network packets. It is intended to be used by LSM developers who want to make @@ -12,7 +15,8 @@ use of a common code base for several different packet labeling protocols. The NetLabel security module API is defined in 'include/net/netlabel.h' but a brief overview is given below. - * NetLabel Security Attributes +NetLabel Security Attributes +============================ Since NetLabel supports multiple different packet labeling protocols and LSMs it uses the concept of security attributes to refer to the packet's security @@ -24,7 +28,8 @@ configuration. It is up to the LSM developer to translate the NetLabel security attributes into whatever security identifiers are in use for their particular LSM. - * NetLabel LSM Protocol Operations +NetLabel LSM Protocol Operations +================================ These are the functions which allow the LSM developer to manipulate the labels on outgoing packets as well as read the labels on incoming packets. Functions @@ -32,7 +37,8 @@ exist to operate both on sockets as well as the sk_buffs directly. These high level functions are translated into low level protocol operations based on how the administrator has configured the NetLabel subsystem. - * NetLabel Label Mapping Cache Operations +NetLabel Label Mapping Cache Operations +======================================= Depending on the exact configuration, translation between the network packet label and the internal LSM security identifier can be time consuming. The |