netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] netlink: Add multicast group level permissions

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Message-ID: <830EC978-8B94-42D6-B70F-782724CEC82D@oracle.com>
Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2023 17:00:27 +0000
From:   Anjali Kulkarni <anjali.k.kulkarni@...cle.com>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] netlink: Add multicast group level permissions



> On Mar 30, 2023, at 11:39 PM, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:25:42 -0700 Anjali Kulkarni wrote:
>> A new field perm_groups is added in netlink_sock to store the protocol's
>> multicast group access permissions. This is to allow for a more fine
>> grained access control than just at the protocol level. These
>> permissions can be supplied by the protocol via the netlink_kernel_cfg.
>> A new function netlink_multicast_allowed() is added, which checks if
>> the protocol's multicast group has non-root access before allowing bind.
> 
> Is there a reason this is better than implementing .bind
> in the connector family and filtering there?

Are you suggesting adding something like a new struct proto_ops for the connector family? I have not looked into that, though that would seem like a lot of work, and also I have not seen any infra structure to call into protocol specific bind from netlink bind?