Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on sysfs files, directories, and symlinks. | From | "David P. Quigley" <> | Date | Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:16:06 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 10:50 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:37:39PM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote: > > So, I've been looking through the sysfs code and I can't find a > > reference to netlink in there. I am assuming that it is other parts of > > the kernel which make use of netlink which are calling the sysfs_* > > functions. Any suggestions for where to look on how this is being used > > and what the important users are? > > The netlink messages are coming from the kobject uevent code, look in > lib/kobject_uevent.c for the code that creates and sends them out. This > happens for every sysfs directory that is created that corresponds with > a kobject. > > thanks, > > greg k-h
It is unclear to me what if anything we need to do to the kobject_uevent code for these changes. Do you have a particular use case in mind? Is there some sort of notification that should be sent up to user space when the label is changed on a file?
Dave
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