Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4-VP-S7 - ksoftirq and selinux oddity

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:18:42AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:31, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >  an alternative possible solution is to get the packet _out_ from
> >  the interrupt context and have the aux pid comm exe information added.
> 
> No, the network permission checks are intentionally layered to match the
> network protocol implementation.  There is a process-to-socket check
> performed in process context when the data is received from the socket
> by an actual process, but there is also the socket-to-netif/node/port
> check performed in softirq context when the packet is received on the
> socket from the network.
 
 ah.  oh well!