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Message-ID: <CAFqZXNtuZ8C5sSJDktTSWiPJbPxTK7ES21NJYVvFC9N4toehew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 12 Feb 2022 22:58:34 +0100
From:   Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com>
To:     network dev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        SElinux list <selinux@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
Cc:     Xin Long <lucien.xin@...il.com>,
        Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@...nternet.com>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "linux-sctp @ vger . kernel . org" <linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Security Module list 
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 0/2] security: fixups for the security hooks in sctp

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 6:59 PM Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@...hat.com> wrote:
> This is a third round of patches to fix the SCTP-SELinux interaction
> w.r.t. client-side peeloff. The patches are a modified version of Xin
> Long's patches posted previously, of which only a part was merged (the
> rest was merged for a while, but was later reverted):
> https://lore.kernel.org/selinux/cover.1635854268.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com/T/
>
> In gist, these patches replace the call to
> security_inet_conn_established() in SCTP with a new hook
> security_sctp_assoc_established() and implement the new hook in SELinux
> so that the client-side association labels are set correctly (which
> matters in case the association eventually gets peeled off into a
> separate socket).
>
> Note that other LSMs than SELinux don't implement the SCTP hooks nor
> inet_conn_established, so they shouldn't be affected by any of these
> changes.
>
> These patches were tested by selinux-testsuite [1] with an additional
> patch [2] and by lksctp-tools func_tests [3].
>
> Changes since v2:
> - patches 1 and 2 dropped as they are already in mainline (not reverted)
> - in patch 3, the return value of security_sctp_assoc_established() is
>   changed to int, the call is moved earlier in the function, and if the
>   hook returns an error value, the packet will now be discarded,
>   aborting the association
> - patch 4 has been changed a lot - please see the patch description for
>   details on how the hook is now implemented and why
>
> [1] https://github.com/SELinuxProject/selinux-testsuite/
> [2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/selinux/patch/20211021144543.740762-1-omosnace@redhat.com/

Actually, that patch no longer applies to the current master. Please
refer to this rebased version instead:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/selinux/patch/20220212213454.689886-1-omosnace@redhat.com/

> [3] https://github.com/sctp/lksctp-tools/tree/master/src/func_tests
>
> Ondrej Mosnacek (2):
>   security: add sctp_assoc_established hook
>   security: implement sctp_assoc_established hook in selinux
>
>  Documentation/security/SCTP.rst | 22 ++++----
>  include/linux/lsm_hook_defs.h   |  2 +
>  include/linux/lsm_hooks.h       |  5 ++
>  include/linux/security.h        |  8 +++
>  net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c         |  8 +--
>  security/security.c             |  7 +++
>  security/selinux/hooks.c        | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  7 files changed, 103 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.34.1
>

-- 
Ondrej Mosnacek
Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.