netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] netlink: add NLA

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Message-ID: <26dd9a66-9515-93aa-e21f-51c37db6be2c@mojatatu.com>
Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:55:12 -0400
From:   Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
To:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        jbenc@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] netlink: add NLA_REJECT policy type

On 2018-09-18 8:39 a.m., Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 08:34 -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> 

>> Maybe time to introduce kernel side access-control flags?
>> Read/Write permissions for example. Attrs marked as read only
>> (in the kernel) cannot be written to.
> 
> I dunno, that might work for ethtool, but I want to use it for something
> that's not even an attribute you could think about writing to, but the
> result of some operation you started.
>

Execute permission kind of thing? i.e if i understood you correctly
if acl is "rwx" then attribute can only be written to (or read from) if
the "thing executing" is complete
> What would the practical difference be though? Hopefully you wouldn't
> have write-only attributes, and then NLA_REJECT is basically equivalent?
>

If ACL says "-w-" then reading should get explicit permission denied
code possibly with an extack which is more descriptive that reading
is not allowed.

cheers,
jamal