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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Netfilter Development Mailinglist
	<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] add support for modifying secmark via ctnetlink
Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 19:13:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4834582D.8090009@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211388856.7486.366.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil>

Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 12:46 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> I agree with James that we need to perform some access check before 
>> setting the ct->secmark field, however, I don't think it is as simple 
>> as calling selinux_secmark_relabel_packet_permission().  The problem is 
>> that the selinux_secmark_relabel_packet_permission() function checks to 
>> see if the currently running task can relabel packets; in this case we 
>> don't want to check the currently running task we want to check the 
>> sender of the netlink message which we can't really do currently.
> 
> Sending task SID is saved in NETLINK_CB(skb).sid at send time, so the
> information is available (but would need to be passed into the
> function).

This part can actually be removed from af_netlink, see the message
I just sent to Paul for reference.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-21 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 22:29 [PATCH 3/4] add support for modifying secmark via ctnetlink Pablo Neira Ayuso
2008-05-21 11:15 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 11:42   ` James Morris
2008-05-21 12:00     ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 16:46       ` Paul Moore
2008-05-21 16:54         ` Stephen Smalley
2008-05-21 17:13           ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-05-22 18:11             ` Stephen Smalley
2008-05-22 19:08               ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 17:41           ` Paul Moore
2008-05-21 17:11         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 17:51           ` Paul Moore
2008-05-21 17:55             ` Stephen Smalley
2008-05-21 19:03           ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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