netdev - Re: [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux

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Date:	Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:39:45 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, jmorris@...ei.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug #11500] /proc/net bug related to selinux

Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com> writes:

> We suck?  Maybe, but some explanation about why we suck in this 
> particular case would be helpful as far as I'm concerned.  I don't 
> really care about identifying the guilty suckees, I'm more interested 
> in finding out what happened to cause us to suck because of this.

Agreed.  I believe we carefully gave selinux the same paths for /proc/net
that it had before so I don't know why this affects user space.

I know we had some selinux review when we made the change.

Eric
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