netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v6 02/16] selinux: Correctly handle IPv4 packets on IPv6 sockets in all cases

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Date:	Wed, 1 Oct 2008 11:36:57 +1000 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>
cc:	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 02/16] selinux: Correctly handle IPv4 packets on
 IPv6 sockets in all cases

On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Paul Moore wrote:

> We did the right thing in a few cases but there were several areas where we
> determined a packet's address family based on the socket's address family which
> is not the right thing to do since we can get IPv4 packets on IPv6 sockets.
> This patch fixes these problems by either taking the address family directly
> from the packet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>


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