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* [PATCH 1/2] SELinux: Only return netlink error when we know the return is fatal
@ 2010-11-23 16:28 Eric Paris
  2010-11-23 16:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] SELinux: indicate fatal error in compat netfilter code Eric Paris
  2010-11-23 16:32 ` [PATCH 1/2] SELinux: Only return netlink error when we know the return is fatal Paul Moore
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Eric Paris @ 2010-11-23 16:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev, selinux; +Cc: sds, paul.moore, davem

Some of the SELinux netlink code returns a fatal error when the error might
actually be transient.  This patch just silently drops packets on
potentially transient errors but continues to return a permanant error
indicator when the denial was because of policy.

Based-on-comments-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
---

 security/selinux/hooks.c |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index a0bc5c0..bd6dc16 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -4594,7 +4594,7 @@ static unsigned int selinux_ip_postroute(struct sk_buff *skb, int ifindex,
 		}
 		if (secmark_perm == PACKET__FORWARD_OUT) {
 			if (selinux_skb_peerlbl_sid(skb, family, &peer_sid))
-				return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);
+				return NF_DROP;
 		} else
 			peer_sid = SECINITSID_KERNEL;
 	} else {
@@ -4607,7 +4607,7 @@ static unsigned int selinux_ip_postroute(struct sk_buff *skb, int ifindex,
 	ad.u.net.netif = ifindex;
 	ad.u.net.family = family;
 	if (selinux_parse_skb(skb, &ad, &addrp, 0, NULL))
-		return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);
+		return NF_DROP;
 
 	if (secmark_active)
 		if (avc_has_perm(peer_sid, skb->secmark,
@@ -4619,13 +4619,13 @@ static unsigned int selinux_ip_postroute(struct sk_buff *skb, int ifindex,
 		u32 node_sid;
 
 		if (sel_netif_sid(ifindex, &if_sid))
-			return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);
+			return NF_DROP;
 		if (avc_has_perm(peer_sid, if_sid,
 				 SECCLASS_NETIF, NETIF__EGRESS, &ad))
 			return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);
 
 		if (sel_netnode_sid(addrp, family, &node_sid))
-			return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);
+			return NF_DROP;
 		if (avc_has_perm(peer_sid, node_sid,
 				 SECCLASS_NODE, NODE__SENDTO, &ad))
 			return NF_DROP_ERR(-ECONNREFUSED);


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2010-11-23 16:32   ` Paul Moore
2010-11-23 18:59     ` David Miller
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