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SubjectRe: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:50:41 -0500
Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 07 February 2008 2:02:06 pm akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > The patch titled
> > Smack: unlabeled outgoing ambient packets
> > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
> > smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch
> >
> > Before you just go and hit "reply", please:
> > a) Consider who else should be cc'ed
> > b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well
> > c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a
> > reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's
>
> I didn't see this patch hit any of the relevant mailing lists (am I missing
> one somewhere?) so I'm just CC'ing everyone on the To/CC line, minus
> mm-commits.

It was on linux-kernel and netdev. I've restored those cc's.

> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Subject: Smack: unlabeled outgoing ambient packets
> > From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> >
> > Smack uses CIPSO labeling, but allows for unlabeled packets by specifying
> > an "ambient" label that is applied to incoming unlabeled packets. Because
> > the other end of the connection may dislike IP options, and ssh is one know
> > application that behaves thus, it is prudent to respond in kind. This
> > patch changes the network labeling behavior such that an outgoing packet
> > that would be given a CIPSO label that matches the ambient label is left
> > unlabeled.
>
> I suppose you are entitled to use NetLabel however you want, so long as it
> works and doesn't cause problems for other users, but I think you are
> starting down a rather ugly road with this patch. In my mind a cleaner
> solution would be to make of use of the built-in NetLabel/LSM domain mapping
> functionality to accomplish the same thing. In other words, there is already
> a mechanism to do what you want, it's probably a good idea to make use of it
> instead of recreating it.
>
> I would suggest that when you set the NetLabel security attributes for a
> socket you set the domain field to the smack label (see the SELinux code for
> an example, if you are unsure see selinux_netlbl_sock_setsid() and
> security_netlbl_sid_to_secattr()). Once you do that you should continue to
> set the default NetLabel domain mapping to send CIPSO tagged packets but also
> create a new NetLabel domain mapping so that the ambient smack label causes
> packets to be sent "unlabeled". The only other change you would have to make
> is to ensure that the NetLabel domain mappings are kept in sync with any
> ambient label changes (should be easy enough and a rather infrequent
> operation in practice).
>
> This also should have the advantage of making your life easier if/when more
> advanced labeled network controls are added to Smack (see the SELinux changes
> made in 2.6.25 and our previous discussions).
>



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