Re: [PATCH 2/2] Add a netlink attribute INET_DIAG_SECCTX

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On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:36 +0800, rongqing.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a new netlink attribute INET_DIAG_SECCTX to dump the security
> context of TCP sockets.
> 
> The element sk_security of struct sock represents the socket
> security context ID, which is inherited from the parent process
> when the socket is created.
> 
> but when SELinux type_transition rule is applied to socket, or
> application sets /proc/xxx/attr/createsock, the socket security
> context would be different from the creating process. For these
> conditions, the "netstat -Z" will return wrong value, since
> "netstat -Z" only returns the process security context as socket
> process security.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/inet_diag.h |    3 ++-
>  net/ipv4/inet_diag.c      |   38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
> index 389a2e6..1faf752 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/inet_diag.c
> @@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
>  
>  #include <linux/inet_diag.h>
>  
> +#define MAX_SECCTX_LEN 128

We don't impose such a (low) limit on other interfaces for reporting
security contexts.  Can you just size the buffer appropriately for the
actual secctx length?

-- 
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency


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