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On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Sean wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2007 20:26:57 +0900 > Tetsuo Handa <from-lsm@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> wrote: > >> Sean wrote: >>> All of a sudden you've implemented the main features of AA with very >>> few changes to the kernel. It should be more maintainable, and much >>> easier to get accepted into the kernel. >> Do you agree with passing "struct vfsmount" to VFS helper functions and LSM hooks >> and introducing d_namespace_path() so that the AA extension can calculate the requested pathname >> and map the requested pathname to SELinux's labels? >> > > Frankly i'm not in a position to judge, but if that's the best way to provide > the desired functionality, then it sounds good. But please make sure you > bounce this all off someone who actually knows what they're talking about. ;o) > Really I was just casually following along this ongoing conversation and had > a more conceptual/design question about how things were implemented. A few > people explained how AA labelling at "runtime" wasn't conceptually very > different than what SELinux did. All that begged the question as to why > that functionality couldn't just be tacked on to SELinux? Sean, since you aren't in a position to judge what's acceptable and I'm not in a position to change code our exchange is pointless. I apologize to the list for the excessive messasges. David Lang - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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