linux/net
Venkat Yekkirala 5b368e61c2 IPsec: correct semantics for SELinux policy matching
Currently when an IPSec policy rule doesn't specify a security
context, it is assumed to be "unlabeled" by SELinux, and so
the IPSec policy rule fails to match to a flow that it would
otherwise match to, unless one has explicitly added an SELinux
policy rule allowing the flow to "polmatch" to the "unlabeled"
IPSec policy rules. In the absence of such an explicitly added
SELinux policy rule, the IPSec policy rule fails to match and
so the packet(s) flow in clear text without the otherwise applicable
xfrm(s) applied.

The above SELinux behavior violates the SELinux security notion of
"deny by default" which should actually translate to "encrypt by
default" in the above case.

This was first reported by Evgeniy Polyakov and the way James Morris
was seeing the problem was when connecting via IPsec to a
confined service on an SELinux box (vsftpd), which did not have the
appropriate SELinux policy permissions to send packets via IPsec.

With this patch applied, SELinux "polmatching" of flows Vs. IPSec
policy rules will only come into play when there's a explicit context
specified for the IPSec policy rule (which also means there's corresponding
SELinux policy allowing appropriate domains/flows to polmatch to this context).

Secondly, when a security module is loaded (in this case, SELinux), the
security_xfrm_policy_lookup() hook can return errors other than access denied,
such as -EINVAL.  We were not handling that correctly, and in fact
inverting the return logic and propagating a false "ok" back up to
xfrm_lookup(), which then allowed packets to pass as if they were not
associated with an xfrm policy.

The solution for this is to first ensure that errno values are
correctly propagated all the way back up through the various call chains
from security_xfrm_policy_lookup(), and handled correctly.

Then, flow_cache_lookup() is modified, so that if the policy resolver
fails (typically a permission denied via the security module), the flow
cache entry is killed rather than having a null policy assigned (which
indicates that the packet can pass freely).  This also forces any future
lookups for the same flow to consult the security module (e.g. SELinux)
for current security policy (rather than, say, caching the error on the
flow cache entry).

This patch: Fix the selinux side of things.

This makes sure SELinux polmatching of flow contexts to IPSec policy
rules comes into play only when an explicit context is associated
with the IPSec policy rule.

Also, this no longer defaults the context of a socket policy to
the context of the socket since the "no explicit context" case
is now handled properly.

Signed-off-by: Venkat Yekkirala <vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2006-10-11 23:59:37 -07:00
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802 [TR]: endiannness annotations 2006-09-28 17:53:59 -07:00
8021q [PATCH] Finish annotations of struct vlan_ethhdr 2006-10-10 16:15:34 -07:00
appletalk [ATALK]: endianness annotations 2006-09-28 17:53:58 -07:00
atm Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h> 2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
ax25 [NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. 2006-07-21 14:51:30 -07:00
bluetooth [PATCH] const struct tty_operations 2006-10-02 07:57:14 -07:00
bridge [NETFILTER]: ebt_mark: add or/and/xor action support to mark target 2006-10-04 00:30:57 -07:00
core IPsec: propagate security module errors up from flow_cache_lookup 2006-10-11 23:59:34 -07:00
dccp [IPV4]: ip_route_connect() ipv4 address arguments annotated 2006-09-28 17:54:06 -07:00
decnet [NET]: Fix sk->sk_filter field access 2006-09-22 15:18:47 -07:00
econet [NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. 2006-07-21 14:51:30 -07:00
ethernet [NET]: Annotate dst_ops protocol 2006-09-28 18:02:58 -07:00
ieee80211 [PATCH] bcm43xx: WE-21 support 2006-09-25 16:52:16 -04:00
ipv4 IPsec: correct semantics for SELinux policy matching 2006-10-11 23:59:37 -07:00
ipv6 IPsec: correct semantics for SELinux policy matching 2006-10-11 23:59:37 -07:00
ipx [IPX]: Fix typo, ipxhdr() --> ipx_hdr() 2006-08-09 17:36:15 -07:00
irda [PATCH] strndup() would better take size_t, not int 2006-10-10 15:37:24 -07:00
key IPsec: correct semantics for SELinux policy matching 2006-10-11 23:59:37 -07:00
lapb [LAPB]: Fix windowsize check 2006-08-05 21:15:58 -07:00
llc [LLC]: multicast receive device match 2006-08-13 18:56:26 -07:00
netfilter [NETFILTER]: Kconfig: fix xt_physdev dependencies 2006-10-04 00:30:53 -07:00
netlabel NetLabel: fix a cache race condition 2006-10-11 23:59:29 -07:00
netlink [GENL]: Provide more information to userspace about registered genl families 2006-09-22 15:18:51 -07:00
netrom [NETROM] lockdep: fix false positive 2006-07-12 13:59:02 -07:00
packet [NET]: Fix sk->sk_filter field access 2006-09-22 15:18:47 -07:00
rose [ROSE] lockdep: fix false positive 2006-07-12 13:58:59 -07:00
rxrpc [PATCH] kmemdup: some users 2006-10-01 00:39:19 -07:00
sched [NET_SCHED]: Remove old estimator implementation 2006-10-04 00:31:07 -07:00
sctp [SCTP]: Do not timestamp every SCTP packet. 2006-09-29 17:10:03 -07:00
sunrpc [PATCH] net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c endianness regression 2006-10-10 15:37:24 -07:00
tipc [PATCH] tipc __user annotations 2006-10-10 15:37:21 -07:00
unix [AF_UNIX]: Change max_dgram_qlen sysctl to __read_mostly 2006-09-22 15:18:42 -07:00
wanrouter [NET]: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. 2006-07-21 14:51:30 -07:00
x25 Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
xfrm IPsec: correct semantics for SELinux policy matching 2006-10-11 23:59:37 -07:00
compat.c [NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layer 2006-04-01 02:25:19 -08:00
Kconfig [NET] Kconfig: fix cut/paste error in TCPPROBE 2006-09-28 17:53:57 -07:00
Makefile [NetLabel]: core NetLabel subsystem 2006-09-22 14:53:34 -07:00
nonet.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
socket.c [PATCH] file: modify struct fown_struct to use a struct pid 2006-10-02 07:57:14 -07:00
sysctl_net.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
TUNABLE Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00