netdev - Re: [PATCH] NetLabel: Verify sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping

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Message-Id: <20070302.131945.70218355.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:19:45 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jmorris@...ei.org
Cc:	paul.moore@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NetLabel: Verify sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO
 mapping

From: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:45:07 -0500 (EST)

> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Paul Moore wrote:
> 
> > The current CIPSO engine has a problem where it does not verify that the given
> > sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping when the "std" CIPSO DOI type is
> > used.  The end result is that bad packets are sent on the wire which should
> > have never been sent in the first place.  This patch corrects this problem by
> > verifying the sensitivity level mapping similar to what is done with the
> > category mapping.  This patch also changes the returned error code in this case
> > to -EPERM to better match what the category mapping verification code returns.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
> 
> [removed redhat-lspp, which is subscriber only]
> 
> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>

Applied, thanks everyone.

If -stable inclusion is desired, please submit this patch there.
You can add my signoff if you want:

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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