netdev - Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: Properly clone LSM attributes to newly created child connections

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Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:36:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	pmoore@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: Properly clone LSM attributes to newly
 created child connections

From: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:40:59 -0400

> The Bluetooth stack has internal connection handlers for all of the various
> Bluetooth protocols, and unfortunately, they are currently lacking the LSM
> hooks found in the core network stack's connection handlers.  I say
> unfortunately, because this can cause problems for users who have have an
> LSM enabled and are using certain Bluetooth devices.  See one problem
> report below:
> 
>  * http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=741703
> 
> In order to keep things simple at this point in time, this patch fixes the
> problem by cloning the parent socket's LSM attributes to the newly created
> child socket.  If we decide we need a more elaborate LSM marking mechanism
> for Bluetooth (I somewhat doubt this) we can always revisit this decision
> in the future.
> 
> Reported-by: James M. Cape <jcape@...ore-your.tv>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks!
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