Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Oct 2004 12:37:10 +0100 | From | Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4-VP-S7 - ksoftirq and selinux oddity |
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:18:42AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:31, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > an alternative possible solution is to get the packet _out_ from > > the interrupt context and have the aux pid comm exe information added. > > No, the network permission checks are intentionally layered to match the > network protocol implementation. There is a process-to-socket check > performed in process context when the data is received from the socket > by an actual process, but there is also the socket-to-netif/node/port > check performed in softirq context when the packet is received on the > socket from the network.
ah. oh well!
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