On Monday 17 December 2007 2:45:50 pm Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 16:50 -0500, Paul Moore wrote: > > Add an inet_sys_snd_skb() LSM hook to allow the LSM to provide packet > > level access control for all outbound packets. Using the existing > > postroute_last netfilter hook turns out to be problematic as it is can be > > invoked multiple times for a single packet, e.g. individual IPsec > > transforms, adding unwanted overhead and complicating the security > > policy. > > None of the netfilter hooks works for this purpose?
None that we have found, no. Although if you can prove me wrong I'd be very happy. The problem is that the existing netfilter hooks can get hit multiple times in the case of labeled IPsec which was decided to be a no-no. > Obviously this one needs to get seen on netdev. Yep. I just wanted to make sure we were all in agreement on what we wanted/needed before I tried to make our case to the netdev folks. -- paul moore linux security @ hp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
