Re: [PATCH 0/6] SELinux UNIX domain socket fixes/cleanup

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On Thursday, June 03, 2010 05:44:14 pm Paul Moore wrote:
> On Thursday, June 03, 2010 05:12:37 pm Eric Paris wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 16:52 -0400, Paul Moore wrote:
> > > On Saturday, May 29, 2010 05:53:16 pm Paul Moore wrote:
> > > > For those of you using git, you can also find a copy of the patches
> > > > at the URL below.
> > > > 
> > > >  * git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_testing
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Thoughts?  Comments?  ACKs?  NACKs?
> > 
> > I looked over the whole series and was good with them except I didn't
> > know/understand the netlbl changes at the bottom of the first patch.  I
> > kept telling myself I was going to dig out the code and verify it's
> > correctness but I haven't yet.  Any chance you could explain what that
> > change is all about to make it easier for me to verify it is correct?
> 
> Sure, let me give it a shot - I assume you're talking about the changes to
> selinux_netlbl_sk_security_reset()?  Assuming the answer is "yes", the
> reason is that before it's inclusion in selinux_inode_setsecurity() it was
> always called from functions operating on newly allocated
> sk_security_structs and as a result it didn't need to worry about any old
> per-socket cached values (look at selinux_netlbl_sock_genattr() to see
> what I mean about cached values and sksec->nlbl_secattr).  The change to
> selinux_netlbl_sk_security_reset() is to check if a cache value exists and
> if it does clear it out before we relabel the socket.
> 
> Anything else you're fuzzy on?  I can't promise my explanations will help
> but I can try ;)
> 
> > Patches 2-6 I'm ok adding my ACK to.....
> 
> Thanks!

Did the above explanation make sense?  I ask because I'd like to get these 
patches moving into James' security-next tree as soon as possible and if there 
are any remaining issues I'd like to get working on them ...

Thanks.

-- 
paul moore
linux @ hp

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