Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 29 Nov 2007 17:52:19 +0100 (CET) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: Out of tree module using LSM |
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On Nov 29 2007 11:27, Jon Masters wrote: > >They (virus protection folks) generally think they want to intercept >various system calls, such as open() and block until they have performed >a scan operation on the file. I explained the mmap issue [...]
If open and close was everything, then that would be wonderful. You could only wonder how many false positives scanners could bring up if they checked every write() for signatures - not to mention performance bogdown.
>they just want to scan files and take some action if a file is >"bad". That's it really. > struct security->dentry_open sounds like the candidate, together with relayfs with submits filenames to userspace.
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