Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 7 May 2003 11:54:07 +0100 | From | viro@parcelfa ... | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Change LSM hooks in setxattr 2.5.69 |
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On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:21:05PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > This patch against 2.5.69 adds a security_inode_post_setxattr hook so > that security modules can update the inode security structure after a > successful setxattr, and it moves the existing security_inode_setxattr > hook call after the taking the inode semaphore so that atomicity is > provided for the security check and the update to the inode security > structure. Al, if you approve of this change, please acknowledge. If > not, please advise as to what must change. Thanks.
<shrug> no objections, provided that existing code behind that hook doesn't do anything that could deadlock under ->i_sem. Seeing that it's your code... - 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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