selinux: keep SELinux in sync with new capability definitions
When a new capability is defined, SELinux needs to be updated. Trigger a build error if a new capability is defined without corresponding update to security/selinux/include/classmap.h's COMMON_CAP2_PERMS. This is similar to BUILD_BUG_ON() guards in the SELinux nlmsgtab code to ensure that SELinux tracks new netlink message types as needed. Note that there is already a similar build guard in security/selinux/hooks.c to detect when more than 64 capabilities are defined, since that will require adding a third capability class to SELinux. A nicer way to do this would be to extend scripts/selinux/genheaders or a similar tool to auto-generate the necessary definitions and code for SELinux capability checking from include/uapi/linux/capability.h. AppArmor does something similar in its Makefile, although it only needs to generate a single table of names. That is left as future work. Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> [PM: reformat the description to keep checkpatch.pl happy] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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