[rsbac] MAC labels

[Amon Ott]

On Sunday 15 November 2009 wrote ali valizadeh:
> I am trying to transfer MAC labels over the network using IP packets. For
> this reason, I want to read the labels in kernel level. Would anyone help
> me to do that?

RSBAC labels network items per connection end point. Each socket has a local 
and a remote end point, so labels are used for both ends independently.

The current scheme looks up the default level of the remote end of the 
connection through template settings, based on protocol, address etc. This 
scheme could still be used as fallback, if no label has been received from 
remote.
Explicitely set labels for one endpoint override the template values. This can 
be a problem with UDP, where the remote address and port can change with 
every packet. The current MAC implementation explicitely sets values for 
local endpoints, but relies on templates for remote.

If you have the "struct socket *", labels are easy to read (look into 
rsbac/adf/mac/mac_main.c for examples). However, using sockets for 
identification means that you have to transfer the labels on transport level 
(OSI 4, TCP, UDP etc.), not on packet level (OSI 3, IP) like other systems 
do.

For labels on TCP connections, using transport level has the advantage that 
both partners can even negotiate a common level for the connection at 
handshake time. Any solution for RSBAC should take this into account.

Amon.
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