netdev - Revert "net: Reset secmark when scrubbing packet"

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 16:12:53 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
Subject: Revert "net: Reset secmark when scrubbing packet"

On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 05:02:15PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> 
> They don't support namespaces, and maintaining the label is critical for 
> SELinux, at least, which mediates security for the system as a whole.

Thanks for the confirmation James, I thought this looked a bit
dodgy :)

---8<---
This patch reverts commit b8fb4e0648a2ab3734140342002f68fb0c7d1602
because the secmark must be preserved even when a packet crosses
namespace boundaries.  The reason is that security labels apply to
the system as a whole and is not per-namespace.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c
index a185427..d1967da 100644
--- a/net/core/skbuff.c
+++ b/net/core/skbuff.c
@@ -4130,7 +4130,6 @@ void skb_scrub_packet(struct sk_buff *skb, bool xnet)
 	skb->ignore_df = 0;
 	skb_dst_drop(skb);
 	skb_sender_cpu_clear(skb);
-	skb_init_secmark(skb);
 	secpath_reset(skb);
 	nf_reset(skb);
 	nf_reset_trace(skb);
-- 
Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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