SELinux: Use unknown perm handling to handle unknown netlink msg types
Currently when SELinux has not been updated to handle a netlink message
type the operation is denied with EINVAL. This patch will leave the
audit/warning message so things get fixed but if policy chose to allow
unknowns this will allow the netlink operation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index f71de5a..7fd4de4 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -4395,7 +4395,7 @@
"SELinux: unrecognized netlink message"
" type=%hu for sclass=%hu\n",
nlh->nlmsg_type, isec->sclass);
- if (!selinux_enforcing)
+ if (!selinux_enforcing || security_get_allow_unknown())
err = 0;
}