Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: extended file permissions based on LSM |
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* Gabor Kerenyi (wom@tateyama.hu) wrote: > Hi! > > I'm looking around the LSM module and I know it has got some > functions for the filesystem part. Well, it looks good, but the > permission thing is not enough. In fact it's enough to check > the permission of an inode, but I'd like to check permissions > for a dentry AND its inode at the same place and time.
We are anticipating VFS changes that include passing a dentry/vfsmount pair to the permission check. This gives you both the inode as well as the point in the tree the user is accessing the inode.
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