Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 10 Jun 2007 23:05:47 +0200 | | From | Pavel Machek <> | | Subject | Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching |
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Hi!
> >>extended out this can come close to giving each file it's own label. AA > >>essentially does this and calls the label the path and computes it at > >>runtime instead of storing it somewhere. > > > >Yes, and in the process, AA stores compiled regular expressions in > >kernel. Ouch. I'll take "each file it's own label" over _that_ any time. > > and if each file has it's own label you are going to need regex or similar > to deal with them as well.
But you have that regex in _user_ space, in a place where policy is loaded into kernel.
AA has regex parser in _kernel_ space, which is very wrong. Pavel
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