selinux: drop remapping of netlink classes

Drop remapping of netlink classes and bypass of permission checking
based on netlink message type for policy version < 18.  This removes
compatibility code introduced when the original single netlink
security class used for all netlink sockets was split into
finer-grained netlink classes based on netlink protocol and when
permission checking was added based on netlink message type in Linux
2.6.8.  The only known distribution that shipped with SELinux and
policy < 18 was Fedora Core 2, which was EOL'd on 2005-04-11.

Given that the remapping code was never updated to address the
addition of newer netlink classes, that the corresponding userland
support was dropped in 2005, and that the assumptions made by the
remapping code about the fixed ordering among netlink classes in the
policy may be violated in the future due to the dynamic class/perm
discovery support, we should drop this compatibility code now.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/security/selinux/hooks.c b/security/selinux/hooks.c
index a985d0bc59bb..a29d6612a328 100644
--- a/security/selinux/hooks.c
+++ b/security/selinux/hooks.c
@@ -91,7 +91,6 @@
 
 #define NUM_SEL_MNT_OPTS 5
 
-extern unsigned int policydb_loaded_version;
 extern int selinux_nlmsg_lookup(u16 sclass, u16 nlmsg_type, u32 *perm);
 extern struct security_operations *security_ops;
 
@@ -4714,10 +4713,7 @@ static int selinux_netlink_send(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
         if (err)
                 return err;
 
-        if (policydb_loaded_version >= POLICYDB_VERSION_NLCLASS)
-                err = selinux_nlmsg_perm(sk, skb);
-
-        return err;
+        return selinux_nlmsg_perm(sk, skb);
 }
 
 static int selinux_netlink_recv(struct sk_buff *skb, int capability)