Re: [PATCH] selinux: refactor mls_context_to_sid() and make it stricter

From: Paul Moore
Date: Wed Sep 05 2018 - 18:17:02 EST


On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:47 AM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 3:56 AM Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 5:19 PM Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

...

> > In the case where we have a MLS policy loaded (pol->mls_enabled != 0)
> > and scontext is empty (scontext[0] = '\0'), we could end up returning
> > 0 couldn't we? It seems like we might want a quick check for this
> > before we parse the low/high portions of the field into the rangep
> > array.
>
> I don't think so. In the first loop iteration, `sensitivity` will be
> an empty string, and so the hashtab_search() should return NULL,
> leading to -EINVAL. Am I missing something?

Looking at this again, no, I think you've got it right. My guess is
that I just mistook the NULL sensitivity check at the top of the loop
as getting triggered in this case, which isn't the case here. Sorry
for the noise.

> > As an aside, I believe my other comments on this patch still stand.
> > It's a nice improvement but I think there are some other small things
> > that need to be addressed.
>
> Is there anything I need to fix apart from the overly verbose comment
> and the unnecessary curly braces?

Nope. I wouldn't even bother with that brace/comment changes, those
were minor nits and only worth changing if you needed to respin the
patch for some other reason.

Consider the patch merged, thanks!

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