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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Process Attribute API for Security Modules 2.5.69
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:02:46AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 06:50, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
> wrote:
> > Umm... How about having it merged with proc_base_readdir()? I.e.
> > have both call the common helper. Ditto for lookups.
> >
> > Other than that (and missing check for copy_to_user() return value in
> > ->read()) I don't see any problems here.
>
> This updated patch against 2.5.69 merges the readdir and lookup routines
> for proc_base and proc_attr, fixes the copy_to_user call in
> proc_attr_read and proc_info_read, moves the new data and code within
> CONFIG_SECURITY, and uses ARRAY_SIZE, per the comments from Al Viro and
> Andrew Morton. As before, this patch implements a process attribute API
> for security modules via a set of nodes in a /proc/pid/attr directory.
> Credit for the idea of implementing this API via /proc/pid/attr nodes
> goes to Al Viro. Jan Harkes provided a nice cleanup of the
> implementation to reduce the code bloat.

[snip]

Looks sane...
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