Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:50:49 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on sysfs files, directories, and symlinks. |
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On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:26:44PM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote: > I just read over Casey's comments again and I'm pretty sure we have a > big misunderstanding here. From his initial response it seems that he > thinks that I am exposing the secids to userspace as the way for setting > the labels on files. That isn't true. We are still using the full string > based labels for the userspace interface what the secid is used for is > to allow the kernel to keep track of changes until the sysfs_dirent is > destroyed.
Ok, if Casey and others agree that this is the best solution, I'll take it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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