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SubjectRe: [RFC] cgroups: implement device whitelist lsm (v2)
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

> Quoting James Morris (jmorris@namei.org):
> > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> >
> > > True, but while this change simplifies the code a bit, the semantics
> > > seem more muddled - devcg will be enforcing when CONFIG_CGROUP_DEV=y
> > > and:
> > >
> > > SECURITY=n or
> > > rootplug is enabled
> > > capabilities is enabled
> > > smack is enabled
> > > selinux+capabilities is enabled
> >
> > Well, this is how real systems are going to be deployed.
>
> Sorry, do you mean with capabilities?

Yes.

All Fedora, RHEL, CentOS etc. ship with SELinux+capabilities. I can't
imagine not enabling them on other kernels.

> > It becomes confusing, IMHO, if you have to change which secondary LSM you
> > stack with SELinux to enable a cgroup feature.
>
> So you're saying selinux without capabilities should still be able to
> use dev_cgroup? (Just making sure I understand right)

Nope, SELinux always stacks with capabilities, so havng the cgroup hooks
in capabilities makes sense (rather than having us change the secondary
stacking LSM just to enable a feature).





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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>


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