Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:23:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Casey Schaufler <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks |
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--- Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> wrote:
> It's not really worth describing, since it's not > acceptable in upstream. > But it basically cycles vfsmnts and looks for > matches to guess which > part of the tree the dentry is in.
Yick. Indeed, that would be bad.
> This kind of change (or perhaps > straight to struct path) is definitely > needed from AA.
It is certainly tempting to suggest that the path struct scheme would be better. The only argument against it that I see is the kind of changes you'd have to make to existing code. It's not even a matter of having to make changes, just which changes you make.
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