Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 May 2007 07:51:31 -0500 | From | "Serge E. Hallyn" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction |
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Quoting Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com): > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:00:11PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Following are two patches which have been sitting for some time in -mm. > > > > > > Where "some time" == "nearly six months". > > > > > > We need help considering, reviewing and testing this code, please. > > > > I did quick scan, and it looks ok. Plus, it means we can finally start > > using that old capabilities subsystem... so I think we should do it. > > FWIW, I looked through it recently as well, and it looked reasonable enough > to me, though I'm not a security expert. I did have a question about > testing corner cases etc, which Serge has tried to address. > > Serge, are you planning to post an update without STRICTXATTR ? That should > simplify the second patch.
Sorry, I did but I guess I didn't cc: you on that reply.
It is at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/276
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