Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8) | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:42:46 -0500 |
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:26:03 PST, Chris Wright said: > * Michael Halcrow (mhalcrow@us.ibm.com) wrote: > > This is the third in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure > > Levels LSM. It moves the claim on the block device from the inode > > struct to the file struct in order to address a potential > > circumvention of the control via hard links to block devices. Thanks > > to Serge Hallyn for pointing this out. > > Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this > addresses?
Ignore that last - I thought it was the "filesystem linking permissions" thread rather than the BSD Secure linking permissions thread. ;)
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