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<h1>Layer: kernel</h1><p/>
<h2>Module: selinux</h2><p/>
<h3>Description:</h3>
<p><p>
Policy for kernel security interface, in particular, selinuxfs.
</p></p>
<p>This module is required to be included in all policies.</p>
<a name="interfaces"></a>
<h3>Interfaces: </h3>
<a name="link_selinux_compute_access_vector"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_compute_access_vector</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allows caller to compute an access vector.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type allowed to compute an access vector.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
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<a name="link_selinux_compute_create_context"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_compute_create_context</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Calculate the default type for object creation.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
Domain allowed access.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
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<a name="link_selinux_compute_relabel_context"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_compute_relabel_context</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Calculate the context for relabeling objects.
</p>
<h5>Description</h5>
<p>
</p><p>
Calculate the context for relabeling objects.
This is determined by using the type_change
rules in the policy, and is generally used
for determining the context for relabeling
a terminal when a user logs in.
</p><p>
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
Domain allowed access.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
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</div>
<a name="link_selinux_compute_user_contexts"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_compute_user_contexts</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allows caller to compute possible contexts for a user.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type allowed to compute user contexts.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
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</div>
<a name="link_selinux_dontaudit_search_fs"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_dontaudit_search_fs</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Do not audit attempts to search selinuxfs.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
Domain to not audit.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_get_enforce_mode"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_get_enforce_mode</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allows the caller to get the mode of policy enforcement
(enforcing or permissive mode).
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type to allow to get the enforcing mode.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_get_fs_mount"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_get_fs_mount</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Gets the caller the mountpoint of the selinuxfs filesystem.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type requesting the selinuxfs mountpoint.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_load_policy"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_load_policy</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allow caller to load the policy into the kernel.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type that will load the policy.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_set_boolean"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_set_boolean</b>(
domain
,
[
booltype
]
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allow caller to set the state of Booleans to
enable or disable conditional portions of the policy.
</p>
<h5>Description</h5>
<p>
</p><p>
Allow caller to set the state of Booleans to
enable or disable conditional portions of the policy.
</p><p>
</p><p>
Since this is a security event, this action is
always audited.
</p><p>
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type allowed to set the Boolean.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
<tr><td>
booltype
</td><td>
The type of Booleans the caller is allowed to set.
</td><td>
yes
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_set_enforce_mode"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_set_enforce_mode</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allow caller to set the mode of policy enforcement
(enforcing or permissive mode).
</p>
<h5>Description</h5>
<p>
</p><p>
Allow caller to set the mode of policy enforcement
(enforcing or permissive mode).
</p><p>
</p><p>
Since this is a security event, this action is
always audited.
</p><p>
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type to allow to set the enforcement mode.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_set_parameters"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_set_parameters</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allow caller to set SELinux access vector cache parameters.
</p>
<h5>Description</h5>
<p>
</p><p>
Allow caller to set SELinux access vector cache parameters.
The allows the domain to set performance related parameters
of the AVC, such as cache threshold.
</p><p>
</p><p>
Since this is a security event, this action is
always audited.
</p><p>
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type to allow to set security parameters.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_unconfined"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_unconfined</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Unconfined access to the SELinux kernel security server.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
Domain allowed access.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<a name="link_selinux_validate_context"></a>
<div id="interface">
<div id="codeblock">
<b>selinux_validate_context</b>(
domain
)<br>
</div>
<div id="description">
<h5>Summary</h5>
<p>
Allows caller to validate security contexts.
</p>
<h5>Parameters</h5>
<table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" width="80%">
<tr><th >Parameter:</td><th >Description:</td><th >Optional:</td></tr>
<tr><td>
domain
</td><td>
The process type permitted to validate contexts.
</td><td>
No
</td></tr>
</table>
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