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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-30 19:04:23 +0300 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-04-30 22:56:38 +0300 |
commit | de1fd4a7b0f2351b775b673f092430dff64b221e (patch) | |
tree | 1493275ce3fa9bebef6bbd72d650fd7d3e99fa28 /Documentation/networking/secid.rst | |
parent | 671d114d8cde3ba4390714b850c86d8b39d31009 (diff) | |
download | linux-de1fd4a7b0f2351b775b673f092430dff64b221e.tar.xz |
docs: networking: convert secid.txt to ReST
Not much to be done here:
- add SPDX header;
- add a document title;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/secid.rst b/Documentation/networking/secid.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..b45141a98027 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/secid.rst @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +LSM/SeLinux secid +================= + +flowi structure: + +The secid member in the flow structure is used in LSMs (e.g. SELinux) to indicate +the label of the flow. This label of the flow is currently used in selecting +matching labeled xfrm(s). + +If this is an outbound flow, the label is derived from the socket, if any, or +the incoming packet this flow is being generated as a response to (e.g. tcp +resets, timewait ack, etc.). It is also conceivable that the label could be +derived from other sources such as process context, device, etc., in special +cases, as may be appropriate. + +If this is an inbound flow, the label is derived from the IPSec security +associations, if any, used by the packet. |