Re: [Fwd: Re: Access attempts]

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On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 14:08 -0800, Steve G wrote:
> >No, the avc message is just misleading.  The pid/comm information for
> >network layer permission checks is unreliable because the packet
> >send/recv isn't necessarily happening in the context of the process that
> >initiated the send or that will handle the recv.
> 
> Seems like this should be fixed. Everything in the audit message needs to be
> accurate. I think a bug should be filed against the kernel for this.

Ok, feel free.  Requires the network permission checks (in sock_rcv_skb
and ip_postroute_last) to pass some kind of flag (e.g. via a new field
in the avc_audit_data struct) to the avc to indicate that it shouldn't
try to log the pid/comm information for current.

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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