Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4-VP-S7 - ksoftirq and selinux oddity

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> audit(1097111349.782:0): avc:  denied  { recv_msg } for  pid=2 comm=ksoftirqd/0 saddr=127.0.0.1 src=25 daddr=127.0.0.1 dest=59639 netif=lo scontext=system_u:system_r:fsdaemon_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:smtp_port_t tclass=tcp_socket
> 
> At least for the recv_msg error, I *think* the message is generated
> because when we get into net/socket.c, we call security_socket_recvmsg()
> in __recv_msg() - and (possibly only when we have the VP patch applied?)
> at that point we're in a softirqd context rather than the context of the
> process that will finally receive the packet, so the SELinux code ends
> up checking the wrong credentials.  I've not waded through the code
> enough to figure out exactly where the two tcp_recv messages are
> generated, but I suspect the root cause is the same for all three
> messages.

that would be a problem in the upstream kernel too - softirq load can
execute in any process context (and in ksoftirqd too).

	Ingo