| Date | Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:12:07 -0400 (EDT) | From | James Morris <> | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 32/44] Enable LSM hooks to distinguish operations on file descriptors from operations on pathnames |
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, jjohansen@suse.de wrote:
> Struct iattr already contains ia_file since commit cc4e69de from > Miklos (which is related to commit befc649c). Use this to pass > struct file down the setattr hooks. This allows LSMs to distinguish > operations on file descriptors from operations on paths.
I'm not quite sure I understand this.
Why would you distinguish operations based on whether you have a pathname or an inode for an object ?
Are you trying to cater for the case where you're holding an open fd for a file which has been deleted, and thus has no pathname?
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