[redhat-lspp] Labeled networking MLS constraints?

Venkat Yekkirala vyekkirala at trustedcs.com
Wed Oct 18 14:11:06 UTC 2006


> >>Actually, if the incoming SYN can't be received by the listening
> >>socket, the handshake should fail at that point in time (as enforced
> >>in selinux_sock_rcv_skb). No child sock should be created. Have you
> >>noticed a different behavior?
> > 
> > I thought there was part of the initial handshake that 
> would get skipped over by
> > sock_rcv_skb() because either skb->sk_socket was NULL or 
> the socket didn't have
> > a SID assigned yet.  If that isn't the case then I think 
> Klaus is you're new
> > best friend :)
> > 
> 
> Ungh, forget what I said above; I was thinking of the 
> behavior before the
> MLSXFRM patches went into the kernel.

It WAS the behavior before the MLSXFRM changes went in as well.




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