netdev - Re: [PATCH] lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the LSM hooks

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Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:02:09 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:     Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
cc:     linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        selinux@...r.kernel.org, Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lsm,selinux: pass flowi_common instead of flowi to the
 LSM hooks

On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, Paul Moore wrote:

> As pointed out by Herbert in a recent related patch, the LSM hooks do
> not have the necessary address family information to use the flowi
> struct safely.  As none of the LSMs currently use any of the protocol
> specific flowi information, replace the flowi pointers with pointers
> to the address family independent flowi_common struct.
> 
> Reported-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>


Acked-by: James Morris <jamorris@...ux.microsoft.com>


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>