linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selinux: support wildcard network interface names

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Message-ID: <c53b73fccbc24586776e9240a14dc6b3@paul-moore.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2025 15:11:09 -0500
From: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To: Christian Göttsche <cgoettsche@...tendoof.de>, selinux@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>, Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>, Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>, Thiébaud Weksteen <tweek@...gle.com>, Bram Bonné <brambonne@...gle.com>, Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>, Canfeng Guo <guocanfeng@...ontech.com>, GUO Zihua <guozihua@...wei.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: support wildcard network interface names

On Mar  2, 2025 =?UTF-8?q?Christian=20G=C3=B6ttsche?= <cgoettsche@...tendoof.de> wrote:
> 
> Add support for wildcard matching of network interface names.  This is
> useful for auto-generated interfaces, for example podman creates network
> interfaces for containers with the naming scheme podman0, podman1,
> podman2, ...
> 
> To maintain backward compatibility guard this feature with a new policy
> capability 'netif_wildcard'.
> 
> Netifcon definitions are compared against in the order given by the
> policy, so userspace tools should sort them in a reasonable order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Göttsche <cgzones@...glemail.com>
> ---
> v2: add policy capability netif_wildcard
> ---
>  security/selinux/include/policycap.h       |  1 +
>  security/selinux/include/policycap_names.h |  1 +
>  security/selinux/include/security.h        |  8 +++++++-
>  security/selinux/ss/services.c             | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Looks good, merged into selinux/dev, thanks!

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