Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] SELinux support for Infiniband RDMA

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On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 02:12:48PM +0000, Daniel Jurgens wrote:
> On 9/7/2016 7:01 PM, ira.weiny wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 03:55:48PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 08:35:56PM +0000, Daniel Jurgens wrote:
> >>
> >>> I think to control access to a VLAN for RoCE there would have to
> >>> labels for GIDs, since that's how you select which VLAN to use.
> >> Since people are talking about using GIDs for containers adding a GID
> >> constraint for all technologies makes sense to me..
> >>
> >> But rocev1 (at least mlx4) does not use vlan ids from the GID, the
> >> vlan id is set directly in the id, so it still seems to need direct
> >> containment. I also see vlan related stuff in the iwarp providers, so
> >> they probably have a similar requirement.
> >>
> >>> required.  RDMA device handle labeling isn't granular enough for
> >>> what I'm trying to accomplish.  We want users with different levels
> >>> of permission to be able to use the same device, but restrict who
> >>> they can communicate with by isolating them to separate partitions.
> >> Sure, but maybe you should use the (device handle:pkey/vlan_id) as your
> >> labeling tuple not (Subnet Prefix, pkey)
> > Would "device handle" here specify the port?
> >
> > Ira
> 
> It would have to include the port, but idea of using a device name for this is pretty ugly.  <subnet_prefix,pkey> makes it very easy to write a policy that can be deployed widely.  <device,port,pkey/vlan> could require many different policies depending on the configuration of each machine.
> 

I agree that this seems weird.  Using the Subnet prefix seems much safer in an
IB/OPA environment.  That would be my vote.  Unfortunately I don't have enough
knowledge of the net stat to know how this would work with RoCE or iWarp.

> I've added Liran Liss, he devised the approach that's implemented.  This would be a pretty big change, with worse usability so I'd like to get his feedback. 
> 

Sounds good,
Ira

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