linux-kernel - Re: SMACK netfilter smacklabel socket match

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Message-ID: <48FC744F.6030507@collax.com>
Date:	Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:06:39 +0200
From:	Tilman Baumann <tilman.baumann@...lax.com>
To:	Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>
CC:	Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SMACK netfilter smacklabel socket match

Casey Schaufler wrote:
> Tilman Baumann wrote:
>> Hi Casey,
>>
>> the last weeks I tried to come up with some way to circumvent my 
>> problems by aimlessly poking around in the code. Did not work though. 
>> Not yet at least. :)
>> Maybe it makes more sense for me to wait until you have a solution.
>> My whole project is stalled right now because of this and I'm not sure 
>> what next.
>> Do you plan to change something there soon? If so I would stop wasting 
>> my time with hopeless attempts.
>>
>> My problem is at the moment that I don't really know what to do. If 
>> you can give some aim I would be glad if I could do something.
> 
> Well, the good news is that I have a change under test that will address
> your needs, allowing a host or set of hosts to be generally accessible
> from the Smack system. The bad news is that it uses a set of netlabel
> apis that are not going to get released in favor of a redesigned set of
> apis which are not available yet. The good news is that those apis will
> handle Smack's needs just fine, but again the bad news is that I don't
> have them to use yet.
> 
> If you're up to trying out something that you know is going to get
> rewhacked before it goes in anywhere let me know.

Sure. I will be happy to use that.
Just tell me where to find it and how to use it and what I should look 
out for.

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