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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/introduction.txt | |
parent | 09bbf055c3329008522b4a9814afe412c202daa7 (diff) |
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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diff --git a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt b/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 3caf77bcff0f..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/netlabel/introduction.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,46 +0,0 @@ -NetLabel Introduction -============================================================================== -Paul Moore, paul.moore@hp.com - -August 2, 2006 - - * Overview - -NetLabel is a mechanism which can be used by kernel security modules to attach -security attributes to outgoing network packets generated from user space -applications and read security attributes from incoming network packets. It -is composed of three main components, the protocol engines, the communication -layer, and the kernel security module API. - - * Protocol Engines - -The protocol engines are responsible for both applying and retrieving the -network packet's security attributes. If any translation between the network -security attributes and those on the host are required then the protocol -engine will handle those tasks as well. Other kernel subsystems should -refrain from calling the protocol engines directly, instead they should use -the NetLabel kernel security module API described below. - -Detailed information about each NetLabel protocol engine can be found in this -directory. - - * Communication Layer - -The communication layer exists to allow NetLabel configuration and monitoring -from user space. The NetLabel communication layer uses a message based -protocol built on top of the Generic NETLINK transport mechanism. The exact -formatting of these NetLabel messages as well as the Generic NETLINK family -names can be found in the 'net/netlabel/' directory as comments in the -header files as well as in 'include/net/netlabel.h'. - - * Security Module API - -The purpose of the NetLabel security module API is to provide a protocol -independent interface to the underlying NetLabel protocol engines. In addition -to protocol independence, the security module API is designed to be completely -LSM independent which should allow multiple LSMs to leverage the same code -base. - -Detailed information about the NetLabel security module API can be found in the -'include/net/netlabel.h' header file as well as the 'lsm_interface.txt' file -found in this directory. |