From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755631AbYIQVph (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:45:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753592AbYIQVpZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:45:25 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:42872 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753164AbYIQVpX (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:45:23 -0400 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Paul Moore Cc: Andrew Morton , Stephen Smalley , jmorris@namei.org, rjw@sisk.pl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1221483926.30816.18.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <20080917125053.1f9ecf37.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <200809171724.36269.paul.moore@hp.com> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:39:45 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200809171724.36269.paul.moore@hp.com> (Paul Moore's message of "Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:36 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-XM-SPF: eid=;;;mid=;;;hst=mx04.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=24.130.11.59;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 24.130.11.59 X-SA-Exim-Rcpt-To: too long (recipient list exceeded maximum allowed size of 128 bytes) X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa04 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Paul Moore X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Report: * -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG * -1.1 BAYES_05 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 1 to 5% * [score: 0.0462] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa04 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] * 0.0 XM_SPF_Neutral SPF-Neutral Subject: Re: [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 07 Dec 2006 04:40:56 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on mx04.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Moore writes: > We suck? Maybe, but some explanation about why we suck in this > particular case would be helpful as far as I'm concerned. I don't > really care about identifying the guilty suckees, I'm more interested > in finding out what happened to cause us to suck because of this. Agreed. I believe we carefully gave selinux the same paths for /proc/net that it had before so I don't know why this affects user space. I know we had some selinux review when we made the change. Eric