netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the permisions of netlink messages

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Date:	Sat, 24 May 2014 18:34:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	ebiederm@...ssion.com, jbenc@...hat.com, luto@...capital.net,
	jorge@...2.net, vgoyal@...hat.com, ssorce@...hat.com,
	security@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, serge@...lyn.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] net: Use netlink_ns_capable to verify the
 permisions of netlink messages

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 16:51:17 -0700

> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have not seen consensus that what Zebra is doing makes sense to
>> support.
> 
> Eric, stop right there.
> 
> There is no "sensible to support". There is only "reality".
> 
> The thing that makes "reality" be "reality" is that it exists whether
> you like it or not, or whether you believe in it or not.
> 
> We don't break applications. Whether you like them or not is
> completely immaterial.

Agreed, we have to either implement Andy's suggestion (permission
check at connect() time for connected sockets, and at send() time for
unconnected sockets) or revert the behavioral change completely.
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