netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm_policy delete security check misplaced

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Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:38:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eparis@...isplace.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jamesm@...ei.org, vyekkirala@...stedcs.com, cxzhang@...son.ibm.com,
	sds@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm_policy delete security check misplaced

From: Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:29:50 -0500

> The security hooks to check permissions to remove an xfrm_policy were
> actually done after the policy was removed.  Since the unlinking and
> deletion are done in xfrm_policy_by* functions this moves the hooks
> inside those 2 functions.  There we have all the information needed to
> do the security check and it can be done before the deletion.  Since
> auditing requires the result of that security check err has to be passed
> back and forth from the xfrm_policy_by* functions.  
> 
> This patch also fixes a bug where a deletion that failed the security
> check could cause improper accounting on the xfrm_policy
> (xfrm_get_policy didn't have a put on the exit path for the hold taken
> by xfrm_policy_by*)
> 
> It also fixes the return code when no policy is found in
> xfrm_add_pol_expire.  In old code (at least back in the 2.6.18 days) err
> wasn't used before the return when no policy is found and so the
> initialization would cause err to be ENOENT.  But since err has since
> been used above when we don't get a policy back from the xfrm_policy_by*
> function we would always return 0 instead of the intended ENOENT.  Also
> fixed some white space damage in the same area. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>

Applied.
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