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* [PATCH 04/10] MLSXFRM: Add security sid to flowi
@ 2006-07-12 21:14 Venkat Yekkirala
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From: Venkat Yekkirala @ 2006-07-12 21:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: jmorris, sds, tjaeger, selinux

This adds security to flow key for labeling of flows as also to allow for
making flow cache lookups based on the security label seemless.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/secid.txt |   14 ++++++++++++++
 include/net/flow.h                 |    1 +
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

--- linux-2.6.17.sock/Documentation/networking/secid.txt	1969-12-31 18:00:00.000000000 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.17/Documentation/networking/secid.txt	2006-07-11 19:51:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+flowi structure:
+
+The secid member in the flow structure is used in LSMs (e.g. SELinux) to indicate
+the label of the flow. This label of the flow is currently used in selecting
+matching labeled xfrm(s).
+
+If this is an outbound flow, the label is derived from the socket, if any, or
+the incoming packet this flow is being generated as a response to (e.g. tcp
+resets, timewait ack, etc.). It is also conceivable that the label could be
+derived from other sources such as process context, device, etc., in special
+cases, as may be appropriate.
+
+If this is an inbound flow, the label is derived from the IPSec security
+associations, if any, used by the packet.
--- linux-2.6.17.sock/include/net/flow.h	2006-06-17 20:49:35.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.17/include/net/flow.h	2006-07-11 19:51:26.000000000 -0500
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ struct flowi {
 #define fl_icmp_type	uli_u.icmpt.type
 #define fl_icmp_code	uli_u.icmpt.code
 #define fl_ipsec_spi	uli_u.spi
+	__u32           secid;	/* used by xfrm; see secid.txt */
 } __attribute__((__aligned__(BITS_PER_LONG/8)));
 
 #define FLOW_DIR_IN	0

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