[PATCH 0/3] Introduce LSM-hook for socketpair(2)

Paul Moore paul at paul-moore.com
Wed Apr 25 18:51:12 UTC 2018


On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 2:44 PM, James Morris <jmorris at namei.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, David Herrmann wrote:
>> This patch series tries to close this gap and makes both behave the
>> same. A new LSM-hook is added which allows LSMs to cache the correct
>> peer information on newly created socket-pairs.
>
> Looks okay to me.
>
> Once it's respun with the Smack backend and maybe the hook name change,
> I'll merge this unless DaveM wants it to go in via his networking tree.

Note my objection to the hook placement in patch 2/3; I think we
should move the hook out of the AF_UNIX layer and up into the socket
layer.

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paul moore
www.paul-moore.com
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