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From: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>
To: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@redhat.com>
Cc: redhat-lspp@redhat.com, linux-audit@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [redhat-lspp] auditing labeled ipsec
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:34:18 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1160775258.17737.100.camel@faith.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200610121024.05288.sgrubb@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:24 -0400, Steve Grubb wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 10:16, Paul Moore wrote:
> > PF_KEYv2 is a socket family/protocol defined by RFC2367 whose original goal
> > was to standardize the interface between the in-kernel IPsec bits and the
> > userland key management daemon.
> 
> OK, then the question becomes is the communication protocol asyncronous or 
> synchronous? If synchronous (the request is handled immediately and not 
> queued like netlink), then current task struct can be used. Otherwise, there 
> may be some more code needed to grab the loginuid during the send and store 
> it with the packet until dequeued. If it is async, there may be selinux 
> implications as well.
> 

pfkey doesn't appear to use a queue like netlink... it registers socket
protocol operations such as .recvmsg and .sendmsg which get called via
sock_recvmsg and sock_sendmsg.

Joy

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-11 20:40 auditing labeled ipsec Joy Latten
2006-10-11 20:58 ` Paul Moore
2006-10-11 21:43   ` [redhat-lspp] " Joy Latten
2006-10-11 22:23     ` Klaus Weidner
2006-10-12 12:36 ` [redhat-lspp] " Steve Grubb
2006-10-12 14:16   ` Paul Moore
2006-10-12 14:24     ` Steve Grubb
2006-10-13 21:34       ` Joy Latten [this message]

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