netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce LSM-hook for socketpair(2)

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Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:51:12 -0400
From:   Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:     James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
Cc:     David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, teg@...m.no,
        Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Introduce LSM-hook for socketpair(2)

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:44 PM, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, David Herrmann wrote:
>> This patch series tries to close this gap and makes both behave the
>> same. A new LSM-hook is added which allows LSMs to cache the correct
>> peer information on newly created socket-pairs.
>
> Looks okay to me.
>
> Once it's respun with the Smack backend and maybe the hook name change,
> I'll merge this unless DaveM wants it to go in via his networking tree.

Note my objection to the hook placement in patch 2/3; I think we
should move the hook out of the AF_UNIX layer and up into the socket
layer.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com