aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/Documentation/security/credentials.txt
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 21:51:23 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-10 21:51:23 -0800
commite7691a1ce341c80ed9504244a36b31c025217391 (patch)
treee9941bb350f64a726130e299c411821da6f41a53 /Documentation/security/credentials.txt
parent5cd9599bba428762025db6027764f1c59d0b1e1b (diff)
parent8fcc99549522fc7a0bbaeb5755855ab0d9a59ce8 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security
* 'for-linus' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: (32 commits) ima: fix invalid memory reference ima: free duplicate measurement memory security: update security_file_mmap() docs selinux: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless apparmor: fix module parameter handling Security: tomoyo: add .gitignore file tomoyo: add missing rcu_dereference() apparmor: add missing rcu_dereference() evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation evm: key must be set once during initialization mpi/mpi-mpow: NULL dereference on allocation failure digsig: build dependency fix KEYS: Give key types their own lockdep class for key->sem TPM: fix transmit_cmd error logic TPM: NSC and TIS drivers X86 dependency fix TPM: Export wait_for_stat for other vendor specific drivers TPM: Use vendor specific function for status probe tpm_tis: add delay after aborting command tpm_tis: Check return code from getting timeouts/durations tpm: Introduce function to poll for result of self test ... Fix up trivial conflict in lib/Makefile due to addition of CONFIG_MPI and SIGSIG next to CONFIG_DQL addition.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security/credentials.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/security/credentials.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/credentials.txt b/Documentation/security/credentials.txt
index fc0366cbd7c..86257052e31 100644
--- a/Documentation/security/credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/security/credentials.txt
@@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ The Linux kernel supports the following types of credentials:
(5) LSM
The Linux Security Module allows extra controls to be placed over the
- operations that a task may do. Currently Linux supports two main
- alternate LSM options: SELinux and Smack.
+ operations that a task may do. Currently Linux supports several LSM
+ options.
- Both work by labelling the objects in a system and then applying sets of
+ Some work by labelling the objects in a system and then applying sets of
rules (policies) that say what operations a task with one label may do to
an object with another label.