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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: fw@strlen.de, paul@paul-moore.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@vger.kernel.org,
	casey@schaufler-ca.com
Subject: Re: New skb extension for use by LSMs (skb "security blob")?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 14:59:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e2e22b41-2aa1-6a52-107d-e4efd9dcacf4@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190822.141845.217313560870249775.davem@davemloft.net>

On 8/22/2019 2:18 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:35:01 -0700
>
>> If the secmark where replaced by a security blob, the u32 secmark field
>> in an sk_buff would be replaced by a void * security field.
> You can already use the secmark to hash to some kind of pointer or other
> object.

Would you really want that used in the most common configuration?
Sure, you *can* do that, but it would be insane to do so.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-22 21:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-21 22:00 New skb extension for use by LSMs (skb "security blob")? Paul Moore
2019-08-21 22:50 ` David Miller
2019-08-22  3:27   ` Paul Moore
2019-08-22  3:54     ` David Miller
2019-08-22 18:50       ` Casey Schaufler
2019-08-22  7:03 ` Florian Westphal
2019-08-22 16:32   ` Paul Moore
2019-08-22 20:10     ` Casey Schaufler
2019-08-22 20:15       ` Florian Westphal
2019-08-22 20:35         ` Casey Schaufler
2019-08-22 21:18           ` David Miller
2019-08-22 21:59             ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
2019-08-22 22:28               ` David Miller
2019-08-22 22:34                 ` Casey Schaufler
2019-08-22 22:36                   ` David Miller
2019-08-23 18:56                     ` Casey Schaufler
2019-08-22 21:17       ` David Miller

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