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    SubjectRe: [AppArmor 01/41] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSMhook
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    On Tuesday 29 May 2007 12:46, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
    > But, from the pathname-based access control's point of view,
    > bind mount interferes severely with pathname-based access control
    > because it is impossible to determine which pathname was requested.

    Wrong. It is very well possible to determine the path of a particular dentry
    (+ vfsmount) with bind mounts.

    > Although both pathnames point to the same object, TOMOYO focuses on the
    > PROCEDURE FOR REACHING AN OBJECT and being able to know the procedure is
    > very important.

    This doesn't make sense, either. With the following sequence of syscalls of
    processes A and B (both of them in the namespace root),

    A: B:
    mkdir("/tmp/a")
    chdir("/tmp/a")
    rename("/tmp/a", "/tmp/b")
    creat("f")

    the path being checked for the creat call must be "/tmp/b/f", even though
    process A never explicitly used "b". If that's not what TOMOYO is doing, then
    that's badly broken.

    Andreas
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