From: Mr Dash Four <mr.dash.four@googlemail.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>, netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: decipher the secmark number from nf_conntrack/ip_conntrack
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:51:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C9936E7.5010404@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1009220041490.23976@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
>> cat /proc/net/nfs_conntrack
>>
>> ipv4 2 udp 17 8 src=10.11.231.82 dst=10.11.255.156
>> sport=34095 dport=53 src=10.11.255.156 dst=10.11.231.82 sport=53
>> dport=34095 mark=0 secmark=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 use=2
>>
>
> I think that rather than bloating ancient procfs files with more info,
> the respective userspace tool should be augmented by secmark name
> resolution instead. Then we would also not need change anything inside
> the kernel, or its interfaces to userspace.
>
The point Eric made (and is a very good one) is that this number should
not be there - at all!
Who would make sense of that number?
This number is only (remotely) useful if somebody is parsing secmark=xxx
for simple <>0 checks - i.e. to find out whether there is a context
defined for that connection. I agree that there should be userspace
function for converting sids to text, but nfs_conntrack, in my view,
should contain the full context (so, in other words - we should have both).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-21 22:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-19 23:04 decipher the secmark number from nf_conntrack/ip_conntrack Mr Dash Four
2010-09-20 0:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-20 10:41 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-20 12:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-20 12:42 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-20 18:15 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-20 21:49 ` Tom Eastep
2010-09-20 23:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-20 23:55 ` Tom Eastep
2010-09-21 9:59 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-21 20:13 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-21 20:26 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-21 21:00 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-21 22:38 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-21 22:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-21 22:51 ` Mr Dash Four [this message]
2010-09-21 23:10 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-21 23:35 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 18:39 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-23 18:49 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 18:52 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-23 18:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 18:58 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-23 19:20 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 19:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 20:05 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 20:18 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 20:34 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-23 20:38 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 20:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 20:56 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 21:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 21:38 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 22:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 22:30 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 22:42 ` Eric Paris
2010-09-23 23:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-24 0:24 ` Tom Eastep
2010-09-24 0:32 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-24 1:18 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-24 0:27 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-23 20:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-09-23 20:53 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-21 22:29 ` Mr Dash Four
2010-09-22 2:25 ` Tom Eastep
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