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    [PATCH] SELinux: Add sockcreate node to procattr API · 42c3e03e
    Eric Paris authored
    
    
    Below is a patch to add a new /proc/self/attr/sockcreate A process may write a
    context into this interface and all subsequent sockets created will be labeled
    with that context.  This is the same idea as the fscreate interface where a
    process can specify the label of a file about to be created.  At this time one
    envisioned user of this will be xinetd.  It will be able to better label
    sockets for the actual services.  At this time all sockets take the label of
    the creating process, so all xinitd sockets would just be labeled the same.
    
    I tested this by creating a tcp sender and listener.  The sender was able to
    write to this new proc file and then create sockets with the specified label.
    I am able to be sure the new label was used since the avc denial messages
    kicked out by the kernel included both the new security permission
    setsockcreate and all the socket denials were for the new label, not the label
    of the running process.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
    Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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