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SubjectRe: [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:39:45 -0700
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> writes:
>
> > We suck? Maybe, but some explanation about why we suck in this
> > particular case would be helpful as far as I'm concerned. I don't
> > really care about identifying the guilty suckees, I'm more interested
> > in finding out what happened to cause us to suck because of this.
>
> Agreed. I believe we carefully gave selinux the same paths for /proc/net
> that it had before so I don't know why this affects user space.
>
> I know we had some selinux review when we made the change.
>
> Eric

It's back up-thread somewhere. umm...

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 09:05:26 -0400
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> However, the most likely explanation is simply that when /proc/net was
> changed from being a directory to being a symlink to /proc/self/net,
> that introduced an additional permission check on accesses
> of /proc/net/<whatever>, namely the read check on the symlink itself.
> And since that check wasn't happening on /proc/net accesses with older
> kernels, older policies didn't allow it.


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