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    selinux: support distinctions among all network address families · da69a530
    Stephen Smalley authored
    Extend SELinux to support distinctions among all network address families
    implemented by the kernel by defining new socket security classes
    and mapping to them. Otherwise, many sockets are mapped to the generic
    socket class and are indistinguishable in policy.  This has come up
    previously with regard to selectively allowing access to bluetooth sockets,
    and more recently with regard to selectively allowing access to AF_ALG
    sockets.  Guido Trentalancia submitted a patch that took a similar approach
    to add only support for distinguishing AF_ALG sockets, but this generalizes
    his approach to handle all address families implemented by the kernel.
    Socket security classes are also added for ICMP and SCTP sockets.
    Socket security classes were not defined for AF_* values that are reserved
    but unimplemented in the kernel, e.g. AF_NETBEUI, AF_SECURITY, AF_ASH,
    AF_ECONET, AF_SNA, AF_WANPIPE.
    
    Backward compatibility is provided by only enabling the finer-grained
    socket classes if a new policy capability is set in the policy; older
    policies will behave as before.  The legacy redhat1 policy capability
    that was only ever used in testing within Fedora for ptrace_child
    is reclaimed for this purpose; as far as I can tell, this policy
    capability is not enabled in any supported distro policy.
    
    Add a pair of conditional compilation guards to detect when new AF_* values
    are added so that we can update SELinux accordingly rather than having to
    belatedly update it long after new address families are introduced.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
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