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From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks•com>
To: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore•com>
Cc: nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	jhs@mojatatu•com, davem@davemloft•net, tgraf@suug•ch,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho•nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:40:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <571697D4.5090404@cumulusnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhRjjWk9drwY5Db2Zwu1CHw+dxtkMKR6Ovw3pzuHBvieVQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/19/16, 12:55 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 4:26 AM, Nicolas Dichtel
> <nicolas.dichtel@6wind•com> wrote:
>> + selinux maintainers
>>
>> Le 18/04/2016 23:10, Roopa Prabhu a écrit :
>> [snip]
>>> diff --git a/security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c b/security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c
>>> index 8495b93..1714633 100644
>>> --- a/security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c
>>> +++ b/security/selinux/nlmsgtab.c
>>> @@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ static struct nlmsg_perm nlmsg_route_perms[] =
>>>         { RTM_NEWNSID,          NETLINK_ROUTE_SOCKET__NLMSG_WRITE },
>>>         { RTM_DELNSID,          NETLINK_ROUTE_SOCKET__NLMSG_READ  },
>>>         { RTM_GETNSID,          NETLINK_ROUTE_SOCKET__NLMSG_READ  },
>>> +       { RTM_NEWSTATS,         NETLINK_ROUTE_SOCKET__NLMSG_WRITE },
>> I would say it's NETLINK_ROUTE_SOCKET__NLMSG_READ, not WRITE. This command
>> is only sent by the kernel, not by the userland.
> From what I could tell from the patch description, it looks like
> RTM_NEWSTATS only dumps stats to userspace and doesn't alter the state
> of the kernel, is that correct?  If so, then yes, NLMSG__READ is the
> right SELinux permission.  However, if RTM_NEWSTATS does alter the
> state/configuration of the kernel then we should use NLMSG__WRITE.
>
okay, will change it to READ in the next version,

thanks.

      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-19 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-18 21:10 [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-18 21:35 ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  0:57   ` David Miller
2016-04-19  1:48     ` David Miller
2016-04-19  2:22       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  2:40         ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19  3:49           ` David Miller
2016-04-19  3:52       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 10:09         ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19 10:48           ` Emmanuel Grumbach
2016-04-19 18:23           ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:41             ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20  1:53               ` David Ahern
2016-04-20  7:32                 ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 12:48                   ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 13:17                     ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-20 13:34                       ` Jiri Benc
2016-04-20 20:13                         ` Johannes Berg
2016-04-19  2:30     ` roopa
2016-04-19  3:41 ` David Miller
2016-04-19  4:17   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  4:32   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19  5:03     ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:31       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 18:45         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 18:47         ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-19 19:08           ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 23:50             ` David Miller
2016-04-20  3:54               ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-20  8:57               ` [PATCH net-next 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] netlink: fix test alignment in nla_align_64bit() Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  9:33                   ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20  9:44                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  9:57                       ` Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 10:14                         ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20 14:31                         ` [PATCH net-next] net: fix HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS typos Eric Dumazet
2016-04-20 15:03                           ` David Miller
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attribute on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-20  8:57                 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] libnl: add more helpers to align attributes on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] rtnl: use the new API to align IFLA_STATS* Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] ipmr: align RTA_MFC_STATS on 64-bit Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 16:58                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] ip6mr: " Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-21 18:28                   ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] libnl: enhance API to ease 64bit alignment for attribute David Miller
2016-04-21 22:00                     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-22  5:31                       ` David Miller
2016-04-19 19:05         ` [PATCH net-next v5] rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19 22:49           ` David Miller
2016-04-20  3:53             ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19  4:43   ` Roopa Prabhu
2016-04-19  7:45   ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 16:00     ` David Miller
2016-04-19  8:26 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2016-04-19 19:55   ` Paul Moore
2016-04-19 20:40     ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]

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