linux/security
James Morris 1340258002 [PATCH] SELinux - fix SCTP socket bug and general IP protocol handling
The following patch updates the way SELinux classifies and handles IP
based protocols.

Currently, IP sockets are classified by SELinux as being either TCP, UDP
or 'Raw', the latter being a default for IP socket that is not TCP or UDP.

The classification code is out of date and uses only the socket type
parameter to socket(2) to determine the class of IP socket.  So, any
socket created with SOCK_STREAM will be classified by SELinux as TCP, and
SOCK_DGRAM as UDP.  Also, other socket types such as SOCK_SEQPACKET and
SOCK_DCCP are currently ignored by SELinux, which classifies them as
generic sockets, which means they don't even get basic IP level checking.

This patch changes the SELinux IP socket classification logic, so that
only an IPPROTO_IP protocol value passed to socket(2) classify the socket
as TCP or UDP.  The patch also drops the check for SOCK_RAW and converts
it into a default, so that socket types like SOCK_DCCP and SOCK_SEQPACKET
are classified as SECCLASS_RAWIP_SOCKET (instead of generic sockets).

Note that protocol-specific support for SCTP, DCCP etc. is not addressed
here, we're just getting these protocols checked at the IP layer.

This fixes a reported problem where SCTP sockets were being recognized as
generic SELinux sockets yet still being passed in one case to an IP level
check, which then fails for generic sockets.

It will also fix bugs where any SOCK_STREAM socket is classified as TCP or
any SOCK_DGRAM socket is classified as UDP.

This patch also unifies the way IP sockets classes are determined in
selinux_socket_bind(), so we use the already calculated value instead of
trying to recalculate it.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-30 11:36:04 -07:00
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keys [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3] 2005-09-28 09:10:47 -07:00
selinux [PATCH] SELinux - fix SCTP socket bug and general IP protocol handling 2005-09-30 11:36:04 -07:00
capability.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
commoncap.c [PATCH] setuid core dump 2005-06-23 09:45:26 -07:00
dummy.c [PATCH] remove the inode_post_link and inode_post_rename LSM hooks 2005-09-09 13:57:28 -07:00
inode.c [PATCH] add securityfs for all LSMs to use 2005-07-08 18:48:41 -07:00
Kconfig [PATCH] SECURITY must depend on SYSFS 2005-08-22 14:10:22 -07:00
Makefile [PATCH] add securityfs for all LSMs to use 2005-07-08 18:48:41 -07:00
root_plug.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
seclvl.c [PATCH] seclvl: use securityfs (fix) 2005-09-17 11:50:01 -07:00
security.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00