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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Extended Attributes for Security Modules against 2.5.68
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Hi,

On Wed, 2003-04-23 at 19:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 02:35:59PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > The idea of using separate attribute names for each security module was
> > already discussed at length when I posted the original RFC, and I've
> > already made the case that this is not desirable. Please see the
> > earlier discussion.
>
> No. It's not acceptable that the same ondisk structure has a different
> meaning depending on loaded modules. If the xattrs have a different
> meaning they _must_ have a different name.

I'm not convinced --- I don't see much value in trying to preserve MAC
semantics over load/unload of different security modules, so for sanity
the important thing is just to be able to detect whether a security
xattr "belongs" to the current module or not. That can be done with a
simple prefix in the xattr value itself. Trying to make multiple MAC
labels coexist in different xattrs seems to have little use.

--Stephen

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