Re: [PATCH] SMACK netfilter smacklabel socket match

[Casey Schaufler]

etienne wrote:
> hello,
>
> Paul Moore wrote:
> ..
>   
>> Well, since you have some time and willingness to do things "the right way" I 
>> would recommend dropping these patches (which are really just band-aids) and 
>> working on the right solution to stored the addresses/masks in a sorted list 
>> with the mask already applied.
>>
>>     
> OK, I'm about to send a new patch; but while testing my patches and reading code, I noticed another bug : 
>
> In smackfs.c:smk_write_netlbladdr
> the netmask mask.s_addr is not handled correctly, the netmask should be :
> 1- computed in u32
> 2- converted to be32 !!
> with current code, a "pseudo u32 mask" is applied to a be32 ipaddr; it occurs to works for "common netmasks" (multiple of 8), not for "intermediate" mask (/15, /25)
>   

Well, that's embarrassing. I am really looking forward to your
fixes!



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