Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:58:15 +0200 | From | José Bollo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] procfs: add smack subdir to attrs |
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 16:59:24 -0700 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/2017 4:38 PM, James Morris wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017, Casey Schaufler wrote: > > > >> Subject: [PATCH] procfs: add smack subdir to attrs > > Is there value in this without major stacking support? > > Yes. If a Smack aware application reads /proc/self/attr/current > it has no way to know if what it sees is a Smack label or an > SELinux context. True, the application can look elsewhere > (i.e. /sys/kernel/security/lsm) to find out which is enabled. > But the real fix is for Smack to use a different interface > than SELinux. Which is what this does. True, it will be even > more important when/if major stacking comes in, but it is still > significant now, and I would like to have it regardless of > the future acceptance of major stacking.
I agree that it is a nice forward movement to leave the mud.
I have a subsidiary question to ask. Should we keep the name 'attr' for the subdirectory? It seems at least convenient but if a better name is valuable (security, lsm, ...) why not to switch now?
BR josé
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