linux-toradex.git/net/key, branch v2.6.16.17

[XFRM]: Eliminate refcounting confusion by creating __xfrm_state_put().

2006-02-24T00:10:53+00:00

We often just do an atomic_dec(&x->refcnt) on an xfrm_state object
because we know there is more than 1 reference remaining and thus
we can elide the heavier xfrm_state_put() call.

Do this behind an inline function called __xfrm_state_put() so that is
more obvious and also to allow us to more cleanly add refcount
debugging later.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[AF_KEY]: no message type set

2006-01-24T20:57:19+00:00

When returning a message to userspace in reply to a SADB_FLUSH or 
SADB_X_SPDFLUSH message, the type was not set for the returned PFKEY 
message. The patch below corrects this problem.

Signed-off-by: Jerome Borsboom 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] capable/capability.h (net/)

2006-01-12T02:42:14+00:00

net: Use  where capable() is used.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[NET]: Change some "if (x) BUG();" to "BUG_ON(x);"

2006-01-09T22:16:18+00:00

This changes some simple "if (x) BUG();" statements to "BUG_ON(x);"

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[NET]: move struct proto_ops to const

2006-01-03T21:11:15+00:00

I noticed that some of 'struct proto_ops' used in the kernel may share
a cache line used by locks or other heavily modified data. (default
linker alignement is 32 bytes, and L1_CACHE_LINE is 64 or 128 at
least)

This patch makes sure a 'struct proto_ops' can be declared as const,
so that all cpus can share all parts of it without false sharing.

This is not mandatory : a driver can still use a read/write structure
if it needs to (and eventually a __read_mostly)

I made a global stubstitute to change all existing occurences to make
them const.

This should reduce the possibility of false sharing on SMP, and
speedup some socket system calls.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.

2006-01-03T21:10:24+00:00

This patch series implements per packet access control via the
extension of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) interface by hooks in
the XFRM and pfkey subsystems that leverage IPSec security
associations to label packets.  Extensions to the SELinux LSM are
included that leverage the patch for this purpose.

This patch implements the changes necessary to the XFRM subsystem,
pfkey interface, ipv4/ipv6, and xfrm_user interface to restrict a
socket to use only authorized security associations (or no security
association) to send/receive network packets.

Patch purpose:

The patch is designed to enable access control per packets based on
the strongly authenticated IPSec security association.  Such access
controls augment the existing ones based on network interface and IP
address.  The former are very coarse-grained, and the latter can be
spoofed.  By using IPSec, the system can control access to remote
hosts based on cryptographic keys generated using the IPSec mechanism.
This enables access control on a per-machine basis or per-application
if the remote machine is running the same mechanism and trusted to
enforce the access control policy.

Patch design approach:

The overall approach is that policy (xfrm_policy) entries set by
user-level programs (e.g., setkey for ipsec-tools) are extended with a
security context that is used at policy selection time in the XFRM
subsystem to restrict the sockets that can send/receive packets via
security associations (xfrm_states) that are built from those
policies.

A presentation available at
www.selinux-symposium.org/2005/presentations/session2/2-3-jaeger.pdf
from the SELinux symposium describes the overall approach.

Patch implementation details:

On output, the policy retrieved (via xfrm_policy_lookup or
xfrm_sk_policy_lookup) must be authorized for the security context of
the socket and the same security context is required for resultant
security association (retrieved or negotiated via racoon in
ipsec-tools).  This is enforced in xfrm_state_find.

On input, the policy retrieved must also be authorized for the socket
(at __xfrm_policy_check), and the security context of the policy must
also match the security association being used.

The patch has virtually no impact on packets that do not use IPSec.
The existing Netfilter (outgoing) and LSM rcv_skb hooks are used as
before.

Also, if IPSec is used without security contexts, the impact is
minimal.  The LSM must allow such policies to be selected for the
combination of socket and remote machine, but subsequent IPSec
processing proceeds as in the original case.

Testing:

The pfkey interface is tested using the ipsec-tools.  ipsec-tools have
been modified (a separate ipsec-tools patch is available for version
0.5) that supports assignment of xfrm_policy entries and security
associations with security contexts via setkey and the negotiation
using the security contexts via racoon.

The xfrm_user interface is tested via ad hoc programs that set
security contexts.  These programs are also available from me, and
contain programs for setting, getting, and deleting policy for testing
this interface.  Testing of sa functions was done by tracing kernel
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Trent Jaeger 
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] gfp flags annotations - part 1

2005-10-08T22:00:57+00:00

 - added typedef unsigned int __nocast gfp_t;

 - replaced __nocast uses for gfp flags with gfp_t - it gives exactly
   the same warnings as far as sparse is concerned, doesn't change
   generated code (from gcc point of view we replaced unsigned int with
   typedef) and documents what's going on far better.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[IPSEC]: Document that policy direction is derived from the index.

2005-10-05T19:15:12+00:00

Here is a patch that adds a helper called xfrm_policy_id2dir to
document the fact that the policy direction can be and is derived
from the index.

This is based on a patch by YOSHIFUJI Hideaki and 210313105@suda.edu.cn.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[AF_KEY]: fix sparse gfp nocast warnings

2005-10-05T05:43:04+00:00

Fix implicit nocast warnings in net/key code:
net/key/af_key.c:195:27: warning: implicit cast to nocast type
net/key/af_key.c:1439:28: warning: implicit cast to nocast type

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[IPSEC]: Add XFRM_STATE_NOPMTUDISC flag

2005-06-20T20:21:43+00:00

This patch adds the flag XFRM_STATE_NOPMTUDISC for xfrm states.  It is
similar to the nopmtudisc on IPIP/GRE tunnels.  It only has an effect
on IPv4 tunnel mode states.  For these states, it will ensure that the
DF flag is always cleared.

This is primarily useful to work around ICMP blackholes.

In future this flag could also allow a larger MTU to be set within the
tunnel just like IPIP/GRE tunnels.  This could be useful for short haul
tunnels where temporary fragmentation outside the tunnel is desired over
smaller fragments inside the tunnel.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller