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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Extended Attributes for Security Modules against 2.5.68
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 01:52:03PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> This patch against 2.5.68 implements changes to the LSM xattr-related
> hooks and adds xattr handlers for ext[23] to support the use of extended
> attributes by security modules for storing file security labels, as
> described in my April 8th RFC posting. Please apply, or let me know if
> any changes are needed. Thanks.

First, please put the changes in the LSM API in a different patch from
the xattr changes, they're a different issue.

The other question is why do you name them system.security? The name
sounds a bit too generic to me. ACLs are certainly a security feature
and have different ATTRS, similar for the Posix capability and MAC
support in XFS. As selinux is the flask implementation for Linux
what about system.flask_label? (or system.selinux_label?)

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