linux_dsm_epyc7002/net/core
Catherine Zhang 877ce7c1b3 [AF_UNIX]: Datagram getpeersec
This patch implements an API whereby an application can determine the
label of its peer's Unix datagram sockets via the auxiliary data mechanism of
recvmsg.

Patch purpose:

This patch enables a security-aware application to retrieve the
security context of the peer of a Unix datagram socket.  The application
can then use this security context to determine the security context for
processing on behalf of the peer who sent the packet.

Patch design and implementation:

The design and implementation is very similar to the UDP case for INET
sockets.  Basically we build upon the existing Unix domain socket API for
retrieving user credentials.  Linux offers the API for obtaining user
credentials via ancillary messages (i.e., out of band/control messages
that are bundled together with a normal message).  To retrieve the security
context, the application first indicates to the kernel such desire by
setting the SO_PASSSEC option via getsockopt.  Then the application
retrieves the security context using the auxiliary data mechanism.

An example server application for Unix datagram socket should look like this:

toggle = 1;
toggle_len = sizeof(toggle);

setsockopt(sockfd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PASSSEC, &toggle, &toggle_len);
recvmsg(sockfd, &msg_hdr, 0);
if (msg_hdr.msg_controllen > sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) {
    cmsg_hdr = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&msg_hdr);
    if (cmsg_hdr->cmsg_len <= CMSG_LEN(sizeof(scontext)) &&
        cmsg_hdr->cmsg_level == SOL_SOCKET &&
        cmsg_hdr->cmsg_type == SCM_SECURITY) {
        memcpy(&scontext, CMSG_DATA(cmsg_hdr), sizeof(scontext));
    }
}

sock_setsockopt is enhanced with a new socket option SOCK_PASSSEC to allow
a server socket to receive security context of the peer.

Testing:

We have tested the patch by setting up Unix datagram client and server
applications.  We verified that the server can retrieve the security context
using the auxiliary data mechanism of recvmsg.

Signed-off-by: Catherine Zhang <cxzhang@watson.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-29 16:58:06 -07:00
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datagram.c [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
dev_mcast.c [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock 2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
dev.c [NET]: Make illegal_highdma more anal 2006-06-29 16:57:59 -07:00
dst.c [PATCH] timer initialization cleanup: DEFINE_TIMER 2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
dv.c [NET]: More kzalloc conversions. 2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00
ethtool.c [NET]: Added GSO toggle 2006-06-23 02:07:36 -07:00
filter.c unaligned access in sk_run_filter() 2006-04-18 15:57:54 -07:00
flow.c [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: network codes 2006-04-11 06:18:31 -07:00
gen_estimator.c [NET]: More kzalloc conversions. 2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00
gen_stats.c Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
iovec.c [PATCH] misc verify_area cleanups 2005-05-01 08:59:08 -07:00
link_watch.c [PATCH] list: use list_replace_init() instead of list_splice_init() 2006-06-23 07:43:07 -07:00
Makefile [I/OAT]: Utility functions for offloading sk_buff to iovec copies 2006-06-17 21:25:46 -07:00
neighbour.c [NEIGH]: Fix IP-over-ATM and ARP interaction. 2006-05-12 14:56:08 -07:00
net-sysfs.c [NET]: Create netdev attribute_groups with class_device_add 2006-05-06 17:56:03 -07:00
netpoll.c [NET] netpoll: break recursive loop in netpoll rx path 2006-06-26 00:04:27 -07:00
pktgen.c [NET]: Add netif_tx_lock 2006-06-17 21:30:14 -07:00
request_sock.c [NET]: More kzalloc conversions. 2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00
rtnetlink.c [NETLINK]: Encapsulate eff_cap usage within security framework. 2006-06-29 16:57:55 -07:00
scm.c [PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/) 2006-01-11 18:42:14 -08:00
skbuff.c [NET]: Added GSO header verification 2006-06-29 16:57:53 -07:00
sock.c [AF_UNIX]: Datagram getpeersec 2006-06-29 16:58:06 -07:00
stream.c [NET]: Add skb->truesize assertion checking. 2006-04-20 00:10:50 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c [IPSEC]: Sync series - core changes 2006-03-20 19:15:11 -08:00
user_dma.c [I/OAT]: Add a sysctl for tuning the I/OAT offloaded I/O threshold 2006-06-17 21:25:54 -07:00
utils.c [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: network codes 2006-04-11 06:18:31 -07:00
wireless.c [PATCH] wext: Fix RtNetlink ENCODE security permissions 2006-04-19 17:25:41 -04:00