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Commit 39c9aede authored by Eric Paris's avatar Eric Paris Committed by James Morris
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SELinux: Use unknown perm handling to handle unknown netlink msg types 



Currently when SELinux has not been updated to handle a netlink message
type the operation is denied with EINVAL.  This patch will leave the
audit/warning message so things get fixed but if policy chose to allow
unknowns this will allow the netlink operation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
parent 1f29fae2

security/selinux/hooks.c

+1 −1
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@@ -4395,7 +4395,7 @@ static int selinux_nlmsg_perm(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb) 
				  "SELinux:  unrecognized netlink message"

				  " type=%hu for sclass=%hu\n",

				  nlh->nlmsg_type, isec->sclass);

			if (!selinux_enforcing)

			if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown())

				err = 0;

		}