Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] SELinux support for Infiniband RDMA

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On 4/13/2016 7:10 AM, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On 4/12/2016 1:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:06:45PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
>>>> Wouldn't QP1 require different access control than QP0 due to SA clients
>>>> on every end node ?
>>>
>>> QP1 still allows modification of the fabric (e.g. multicast join) or
>>> an DoS attack against the SA.  Though the latter probably requires
>>> restricting how a UD QP may be used.
>>
>> Right, I don't disagree we should have smp and gmp 'just in case'
>> (fine names as well) labels, I just don't really understand why you'd
>> trust something enough to grant gmp but not enough for smp...
>>
>> Particularly encouraging people to grant gmp as though that was 'safe'
>> is really bad advice.
> 
> I'm not sure what the motivation is either. The nature of the QP1 threat
> is somewhat different from the QP0 threat. Only thing I can think of is
> that it's hard to protect GMPs/QP1 since any UD QP can send to QP1.
> 
> -- Hal
> 
>> Which in turn makes me wonder why the umad dev node label is not
>> sufficient.
>>
>> Jason
>>
> 

I've asked Liran to look over this thread, I'd like him to weigh in.  He
said he will have time tomorrow.

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