Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name | From | Trond Myklebust <> | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:00:05 -0800 |
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On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 19:51 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:50:06PM -0800, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > As I've told you several times before: we're _NOT_ putting private > > ioctl^Hxattrs onto the wire. If the protocol can't be described in an > > RFC, then it isn't going in no matter what expletive you choose to > > use... > > It's as unstructured as the named attributes already in. Or file data > for that matter.
Describing what is supposed to be a security mechanism in a structured fashion for use in a protocol should hardly be an impossible task (and AFAICS, Dave & co are making good progress in doing so). If it is, then that casts serious doubt on the validity of the security model...
There should be no need for ioctls.
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