netdev - Re: Revert "net: Reset secmark when scrubbing packet"

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2015 09:32:09 +0100
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	Flavio Leitner <fbl@...close.org>
Subject: Re: Revert "net: Reset secmark when scrubbing packet"

On 04/16/15 at 04:12pm, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 05:02:15PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> > 
> > They don't support namespaces, and maintaining the label is critical for 
> > SELinux, at least, which mediates security for the system as a whole.
> 
> Thanks for the confirmation James, I thought this looked a bit
> dodgy :)
> 
> ---8<---
> This patch reverts commit b8fb4e0648a2ab3734140342002f68fb0c7d1602
> because the secmark must be preserved even when a packet crosses
> namespace boundaries.  The reason is that security labels apply to
> the system as a whole and is not per-namespace.

No objection to reverting, _BUT_ just because security labels
apply to the system as a whole does not mean that both the packet
in the underlay and overlay belong to the same context.

The point here was to not blindly inherit the security context of a
packet based on the outer or inner header. Someone tagging all
packets addressed to the host itself with a SElinux context may not
expect that SELinux context to be preserved into a namespaced tenant.
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