Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:45:23 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM. |
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On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:04:23AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > The reason why I want to access namespace_sem inside security_inode_create() is that > it doesn't receive "struct vfsmount" parameter. > If "struct vfsmount" *were* passed to security_inode_create(), > I have no need to access namespace_sem.
Same argument as with the AA folks: it does not have any business looking at the vfsmount. If you create a file it can and in many setups will show up in multiple vfsmounts, so making decisions based on the particular one this creat happens through is wrong and actually dangerous.
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