Building Hello World LSM

[Thomas F. J.-M. Pasquier]

Hi everyone,

Kernel version 3.17.8

I am trying to build a skeleton LSM module, but I am not having much luck
so far. The problem seems to be that the LSM init function is never called.

I am selecting my helloworld LSM when building the kernel and it is set as
default (checked and re-checked in menuconfig + in the file).

The build is going fine (my module is built as I would expect). The rest of
the building procedure goes fine. I reboot, the new image works just fine
except my LSM is not in (nor any other, it seems, for that matter).

Here is the init function:
static __init int hw_init(void){
/* avoid security registration races */
if (!security_module_enable(&hw_ops)){
printk(KERN_INFO "hw:  Disabled at boot.\n");
return 0;
}

printk(KERN_INFO "hw:  Initializing.\n");

if (register_security(&hw_ops))
panic("hw: Unable to register with kernel.\n");
else
printk(KERN_INFO "hw: registered with the kernel.\n");

return 0;
}

security_initcall(hw_init);

I looked at how it was done in SELinux and the other security module and I
don't seem to be doing things differently or incorrectly. I checked the log
level just in case and that's not the issue either.

I am tempted to say the problem come from my building
procedure/configuration, rather than the module/code in itself (the dist on
top of the kernel is fedora21). I have been at it for a while now and any
help would be most welcomed.

Thank you in advance.

Regards,
Thomas
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