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| author | Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.com> | 2018-03-19 18:33:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> | 2018-03-20 21:26:15 +0100 |
| commit | d3cc2cd7c8d7adfb43075036878e319d5893280d (patch) | |
| tree | d32051445aa3bb3692760e35a54d8d2e5be7ba74 /Documentation/security | |
| parent | selinux: Fix ltp test connect-syscall failure (diff) | |
| download | linux-d3cc2cd7c8d7adfb43075036878e319d5893280d.tar.xz linux-d3cc2cd7c8d7adfb43075036878e319d5893280d.zip | |
selinux: Update SELinux SCTP documentation
Update SELinux-sctp.rst "SCTP Peer Labeling" section to reflect
how the association permission is validated.
Reported-by: Dominick Grift <dac.override@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Haines <richard_c_haines@btinternet.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst b/Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst index 2f66bf30658a..a332cb1c5334 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst +++ b/Documentation/security/SELinux-sctp.rst @@ -116,11 +116,12 @@ statement as shown in the following example:: SCTP Peer Labeling =================== An SCTP socket will only have one peer label assigned to it. This will be -assigned during the establishment of the first association. Once the peer -label has been assigned, any new associations will have the ``association`` -permission validated by checking the socket peer sid against the received -packets peer sid to determine whether the association should be allowed or -denied. +assigned during the establishment of the first association. Any further +associations on this socket will have their packet peer label compared to +the sockets peer label, and only if they are different will the +``association`` permission be validated. This is validated by checking the +socket peer sid against the received packets peer sid to determine whether +the association should be allowed or denied. NOTES: 1) If peer labeling is not enabled, then the peer context will always be |