Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH 2/2] netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms

[Chris Wright <chrisw sous-sol org>]

* Patrick McHardy (kaber trash net) wrote:

> commit 8ff259625f0ab295fa085b0718eed13093813fbc
> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber trash net>
> Date:   Thu Mar 3 10:17:31 2011 +0100
> 
>     netlink: kill eff_cap from struct netlink_skb_parms
>     
>     Netlink message processing in the kernel is synchronous these days,
>     capabilities can be checked directly in security_netlink_recv() from
>     the current process.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber trash net>

Thanks for doing that Patrick.  I looked at this earlier and thought
there was still an async path, but I guess that's just to another
userspace process.

BTW, I think you missed a couple connector based callers:

drivers/staging/pohmelfs/config.c:      if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_AD
drivers/video/uvesafb.c:        if (!cap_raised(nsp->eff_cap, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))

Fix those and:

Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw sous-sol org>

Ideally, we'd consolidate those into a variant of security_netlink_recv().
However the issue is with types.  Inside connector callback we only have
netlink_skb_params (seems inapproriate to cast back out to skb).

We could change the lsm hook to only pass nsp, but SELinux actually
cares about the netlink type.  Any ideas?