From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] SELinux UNIX domain socket fixes/cleanup
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:39:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201006091739.49063.paul.moore@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006031744.14365.paul.moore@hp.com>
On Thursday, June 03, 2010 05:44:14 pm Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thursday, June 03, 2010 05:12:37 pm Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 16:52 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Saturday, May 29, 2010 05:53:16 pm Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > For those of you using git, you can also find a copy of the patches
> > > > at the URL below.
> > > >
> > > > * git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_testing
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Thoughts? Comments? ACKs? NACKs?
> >
> > I looked over the whole series and was good with them except I didn't
> > know/understand the netlbl changes at the bottom of the first patch. I
> > kept telling myself I was going to dig out the code and verify it's
> > correctness but I haven't yet. Any chance you could explain what that
> > change is all about to make it easier for me to verify it is correct?
>
> Sure, let me give it a shot - I assume you're talking about the changes to
> selinux_netlbl_sk_security_reset()? Assuming the answer is "yes", the
> reason is that before it's inclusion in selinux_inode_setsecurity() it was
> always called from functions operating on newly allocated
> sk_security_structs and as a result it didn't need to worry about any old
> per-socket cached values (look at selinux_netlbl_sock_genattr() to see
> what I mean about cached values and sksec->nlbl_secattr). The change to
> selinux_netlbl_sk_security_reset() is to check if a cache value exists and
> if it does clear it out before we relabel the socket.
>
> Anything else you're fuzzy on? I can't promise my explanations will help
> but I can try ;)
>
> > Patches 2-6 I'm ok adding my ACK to.....
>
> Thanks!
Did the above explanation make sense? I ask because I'd like to get these
patches moving into James' security-next tree as soon as possible and if there
are any remaining issues I'd like to get working on them ...
Thanks.
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paul moore
linux @ hp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-09 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-29 21:53 [PATCH 0/6] SELinux UNIX domain socket fixes/cleanup Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 1/6] selinux: Update socket's label alongside inode's label Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 2/6] selinux: Set the peer label correctly on connected UNIX domain sockets Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 3/6] selinux: Consolidate sockcreate_sid logic Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 4/6] selinux: Shuffle the sk_security_struct alloc and free routines Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 5/6] selinux: Convert socket related access controls to use socket labels Paul Moore
2010-05-29 21:53 ` [PATCH 6/6] selinux: Use current_security() when possible Paul Moore
2010-06-03 20:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] SELinux UNIX domain socket fixes/cleanup Paul Moore
2010-06-03 21:12 ` Eric Paris
2010-06-03 21:44 ` Paul Moore
2010-06-09 21:39 ` Paul Moore [this message]
2010-06-21 18:32 ` Paul Moore
2010-06-21 19:13 ` Paul Moore
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