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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: paul@paul-moore.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	selinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New skb extension for use by LSMs (skb "security blob")?
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:50:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190821.155013.1723892743521935274.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHC9VhSz1_KA1tCJtNjwK26BOkGhKGbPT7v1O82mWPduvWwd4A@mail.gmail.com>

From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 18:00:09 -0400

> I was just made aware of the skb extension work, and it looks very
> appealing from a LSM perspective.  As some of you probably remember,
> we (the LSM folks) have wanted a proper security blob in the skb for
> quite some time, but netdev has been resistant to this idea thus far.
> 
> If I were to propose a patchset to add a SKB_EXT_SECURITY skb
> extension (a single extension ID to be shared among the different
> LSMs), would that be something that netdev would consider merging, or
> is there still a philosophical objection to things like this?

Unlike it's main intended user (MPTCP), it sounds like LSM's would use
this in a way such that it would be enabled on most systems all the
time.

That really defeats the whole purpose of making it dynamic. :-/

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-21 22:50 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 [this message]
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
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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