netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:20:10 +1000
From:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	mjt@....msk.ru, davem@...emloft.net, casey@...aufler-ca.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix security_socket_sendmsg() bypass problem.


Hi,

> > (I noticed samba.org address in the Cc list).
> 
> That's because Anton Blanchard is author of sendmmsg() system call.

Ignore the From address - I wasn't adding sendmmsg with samba in mind.

> > When I saw recvmmsg()/sendmmsg() here, my first thought was an
> > authoritative DNS server which can read several requests at a
> > time and answer them all at once too - this way it all will go
> > to different addresses.
> 
> I don't know what application wants sendmmsg(). Since users can send
> up to UIO_MAXIOV (= 1024) "struct iovec" blocks using sendmsg(), they
> will use sendmsg() rather than sendmmsg() if the destination address
> are the same.

But if an application needs to maintain packet boundaries, then sendmsg
isn't going to help is it?
 
> Therefore, I guess users will use sendmmsg() for sending to multiple
> different destination addresses. If so, optimization based on
> destination address will do more harm than benefit; simply passing
> nosec flag down to LSM modules (so that SELinux will skip
> sock_has_perm() call and SMACK will not skip smack_netlabel_send()
> call) will be sufficient for 3.0.x stable release.
> 
> Anton, how do you want to use sendmmsg()?

I was using it for packet generation, using raw sockets.

Anton
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