This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled net/tipc: initialize security state for new connection socket to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: net-tipc-initialize-security-state-for-new-connection-socket.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Sat Sep 26 11:13:07 PDT 2015 From: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:43:45 -0400 Subject: net/tipc: initialize security state for new connection socket From: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit fdd75ea8df370f206a8163786e7470c1277a5064 ] Calling connect() with an AF_TIPC socket would trigger a series of error messages from SELinux along the lines of: SELinux: Invalid class 0 type=AVC msg=audit(1434126658.487:34500): avc: denied { <unprintable> } for pid=292 comm="kworker/u16:5" scontext=system_u:system_r:kernel_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=<unprintable> permissive=0 This was due to a failure to initialize the security state of the new connection sock by the tipc code, leaving it with junk in the security class field and an unlabeled secid. Add a call to security_sk_clone() to inherit the security state from the parent socket. Reported-by: Tim Shearer <tim.shearer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/socket.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/tipc/socket.c +++ b/net/tipc/socket.c @@ -2009,6 +2009,7 @@ static int tipc_accept(struct socket *so res = tipc_sk_create(sock_net(sock->sk), new_sock, 0, 1); if (res) goto exit; + security_sk_clone(sock->sk, new_sock->sk); new_sk = new_sock->sk; new_tsock = tipc_sk(new_sk); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/net-tipc-initialize-security-state-for-new-connection-socket.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html