From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Paris Subject: [PATCH 1/2] SELinux: Only return netlink error when we know the return is fatal Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:28:02 -0500 Message-ID: <20101123162802.3588.74894.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: sds@tycho.nsa.gov, paul.moore@hp.com, davem@davemloft.net To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1028 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755123Ab0KWQ3T (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:29:19 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Signed-off-by: Eric Paris --- 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);