On Wednesday 21 May 2008 8:00:09 am Patrick McHardy wrote: > James Morris wrote: > > On Wed, 21 May 2008, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote: > >>> As for now we only support dumping. This patch adds support to > >>> change the secmark from ctnetlink. > >> > >> I'm wondering whether this isn't subverting the intent of > >> secmark since AFAIK SELinux doesn't have finegrained > >> controls for netlink messages. OTOH, it also doesn't have > >> finegrained control over iptables rulesets. > >> > >> James, does this patch look OK to you? > > > > There is some fine-grained netlink coverage, but it is incomplete > > (the various generic netlink layers likely need to be consolidated > > first). > > > > Currently, the SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets call out to > > selinux_secmark_relabel_packet_permission() when SELinux is active > > to obtain a permission check. So, detection of the current > > security model would need to be similarly performed. > > Thanks for the explanation. Sorry, I don't subscribe to netfilter-devel so I missed the original discussion; I'm subscribed now. I agree with James that we need to perform some access check before setting the ct->secmark field, however, I don't think it is as simple as calling selinux_secmark_relabel_packet_permission(). The problem is that the selinux_secmark_relabel_packet_permission() function checks to see if the currently running task can relabel packets; in this case we don't want to check the currently running task we want to check the sender of the netlink message which we can't really do currently. The next best thing is to provide access control around the individual netlink message types which we can currently do. >From what I can tell (I'm no netfilter expert), we need to ensure that only privileged process have the ability to send netlink messages with type (NFNL_SUBSYS_CTNETLINK | IPCTNL_MSG_CT_NEW) which should be possible using the code in security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c. You would need to create a NETLINK_NETFILTER nlmsg_perm struct first like the others for routing, XFRM, audit, etc. > > The bigger issue perhaps is whether there's really a need to set > > secmark via ctnetlink. > > I think Pablo wants to use it for synchronization with conntrackd, > but I'm not sure. To be honest I'm a little uneasy about this because we don't have a way to perform any "good" access check (there is no subject in this case since we can't check the security label of the process sending the netlink message). Has anyone checked to see if setting the secmark via conntrackd works? I really doubt it would since the actual secmakr integer value is specific, in the SELinux case, to a particular running kernel and not globally recognized by other systems even if they are running the same kernel and SELinux policy. There are ways to workaround this by passing the string based label between systems but even that can have issues if the security policies differ slightly. -- paul moore linux @ hp -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
