From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/30] acl: add vfs posix acl api
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:59:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220927075910.remwae5cz6w2dgob@wittgenstein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220927074101.GA17464@lst.de>
On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 09:41:01AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 05:22:45PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > I suggest that you might focus on the acl/evm interface rather than the entire
> > LSM interface. Unless there's a serious plan to make ima/evm into a proper LSM
> > I don't see how the breadth of this patch set is appropriate.
>
> Umm. The problem is the historically the Linux xattr interface was
> intended for unstructured data, while some of it is very much structured
> and requires interpretation by the VFS and associated entities. So
> splitting these out and add proper interface is absolutely the right
> thing to do and long overdue (also for other thing like capabilities).
> It might make things a little more verbose for LSM, but it fixes a very
> real problem.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-27 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-26 14:07 [PATCH v2 00/30] acl: add vfs posix acl api Christian Brauner
2022-09-26 14:08 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] selinux: implement set acl hook Christian Brauner
2022-09-27 22:55 ` Paul Moore
2022-09-26 14:08 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] evm: " Christian Brauner
2022-09-27 22:56 ` Paul Moore
2022-09-26 14:08 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] evm: add post " Christian Brauner
2022-09-27 22:56 ` Paul Moore
2022-09-26 14:08 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] evm: simplify evm_xattr_acl_change() Christian Brauner
2022-09-27 22:56 ` Paul Moore
2022-09-28 13:31 ` Christian Brauner
2022-09-27 0:22 ` [PATCH v2 00/30] acl: add vfs posix acl api Casey Schaufler
2022-09-27 7:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-09-27 7:59 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2022-09-27 14:11 ` Casey Schaufler
2022-09-27 15:16 ` Seth Forshee
2022-09-27 15:55 ` Casey Schaufler
2022-09-27 23:24 ` Paul Moore
2022-09-27 23:37 ` Casey Schaufler
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