netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the NetLabel LSM category mappings

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Date:	Fri, 01 Aug 2014 11:43:53 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, Christian Evans <frodox@...o.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the NetLabel LSM category mappings

On Thursday, July 31, 2014 03:47:29 PM Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 7/31/2014 2:44 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> > As you will see in the patch descriptions below, the NetLabel LSM
> > category mappings are very badly broken.  This patchset should repair
> > things and make life better in the future.  The first three patches
> > are straight-up bug fixes; the fourth patch doesn't actually fix any
> > faulty logic in the code, but rather shortens some stupidly long
> > function and structure names relating to the NetLabel category
> > mappings.  I should probably do something similar with a lot of other
> > NetLabel APIs, but that is for another time.
> > 
> > Thanks to Christian Evans for pointing out one of the original
> > problems.  I don't think he realized how many problems there really
> > were, but I still owe him one for getting me to revisit this ugly,
> > nasty code.  I apologize it took so long to get a fix out and that
> > things were broken this badly in the first place.
> > 
> > Casey, I'm CC'ing you here because this patchset does touch some of
> > the Smack code, but as you can see the changes are trivial.  I will
> > be very surprised if you find anything objectionable in there.
> > However, if you do, let me know and I'll fix it.
> 
> The code passes my tests. I'll mark the patches "Tested-by:".

Great, thanks for testing.

-- 
paul moore
security and virtualization @ redhat

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