[PATCH] nvme-tcp: fix selinux denied when calling sock_sendmsg

[Keith Busch]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 02:35:23PM +0800, shaopeijie at cestc.cn wrote:
> From: Peijie Shao <shaopeijie at cestc.cn>
> 
> In a SELinux enabled kernel, socket_create() initializes the
> security label of the socket using the security label of the
> calling process, this typically works well.
> 
> However, in a containerized environment like Kubernetes,
> problem arises when a privileged container(domain spc_t)
> connects to an NVMe target and mounts the NVMe as persistent
> storage for unprivileged containers(domain container_t).
> 
> This is because the container_t domain cannot access
> resources labeled with spc_t, resulting in socket_sendmsg
> returning -EACCES.
> 
> The solution is to use socket_create_kern() instead of
> socket_create(), which labels the socket context to kernel_t.
> Access control will then be handled by the VFS layer rather
> than the socket itself.

Thanks, applied to nvme-6.15.