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SubjectRe: [PATCH] integrity: fix IMA inode leak
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On Sun, 2009-06-07 at 16:09 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Mimi Zohar wrote:
> >
> > Mandatory Access Control(MAC) modules (i.e. SELinux, smack, etc) and
> > integrity (i.e IMA) are two different aspects of security. The LSM
> > hooks, which includes security_inode_free(), are used to implement MAC,
> > not integrity.
>
> So?
>
> It's under security/integrity. And it's a level of detail that fs/inode.c
> really doesn't care about.
>
> The VFS layer cares NOT AT ALL about your "different aspects of security",
> nor should it. The fact that security people think SELinux and IMA are
> different is irrelavant - fs/inode.c just doesn't care. Why should it?
>
> Linus

Today the security calls are synomymous with MAC. If I understand
correctly, you're suggesting we need to have a single security layer,
which, depending on the hook, calls either MAC or integrity, or both.

Makes sense. Copying the LSM mailing list on this discussion.

Mimi Zohar



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