Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Call LSM functions outside VFS helper functions. | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | Date | Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:56:09 +0200 |
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Hi,
> I'm reading this thread on tenterhooks. > If vfsmount is passed to VFS helper functions, that will make > r/o bind mounts and AppArmor and TOMOYO Linux happy. > But so far, it seems that "passing vfsmount makes things complicated".
If done right, it shouldn't. At least it didn't seem to complicate the parts that I've touched ;)
> If the conclusion became "vfsmount should not be passed to > VFS helper functions", that's OK, but I want you to consider > the below approach for AppArmor and TOMOYO Linux. This patch is a repost of > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-fsdevel/2008/2/17/882024 .
I'm not a big fan of adding new security hooks. Nor of moving the existing ones to callers.
Miklos
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