From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:24:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020927172428.GB11813@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020927180118.A32610@infradead.org>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 06:01:18PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:55:56AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > For cases like the module_* hooks, and the other examples you pointed
> > out, I agree.
> >
> > For other cases, capable() is just not fine grained enough to actually
> > know what is going on (like CAP_SYS_ADMIN). In those cases you need an
> > extra hook to determine where in the kernel you are.
>
> Either we make capable fine grained enough (64 or 128bit capability
> vectors, I have some old code for that around and I know SGI used that
> more than a year ago) or we replace the capable in those cases with hooks
> entirely.
I don't have a problem with either of these things, but don't see them
being completed any time soon. Unless you have some time to work on
this?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-27 4:32 [RFC] LSM changes for 2.5.38 Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-26 22:51 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 16:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 16:55 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 17:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 17:24 ` Greg KH [this message]
2002-09-27 12:09 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-09-27 16:34 ` Greg KH
2002-09-27 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 18:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-27 18:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 18:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-27 18:59 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 14:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-09-30 14:51 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-01 16:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-02 17:55 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-10-02 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-02 22:55 ` Seth Arnold
2002-10-02 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-27 19:00 ` Stephen Smalley
2002-10-01 17:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-30 9:08 ` Chris Wright
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-26 20:25 Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:26 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:27 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:28 ` Greg KH
2002-09-26 20:28 ` Greg KH
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