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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Cc: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	chrisw@sous-sol.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	agruen@suse.de
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:50:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070205195058.GT10475@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <101270.11571.qm@web36602.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

* Casey Schaufler (casey@schaufler-ca.com) wrote:
> > They are being posted now as a request for comment. 
> > Presently the AppArmor
> > code - being a user of the LSM interface - does not
> > receive the vfsmount 
> > correspoding to an operation and has to employ
> > convoluted and slow mechanisms 
> > in an attempt to determine the vfsmount which are
> > error prone.
> 
> Would it be possible for you to describe those
> methods? Perhaps there is a better way to go
> about getting the information you need without
> introducing this level of change.

It's not really worth describing, since it's not acceptable in upstream.
But it basically cycles vfsmnts and looks for matches to guess which
part of the tree the dentry is in.  This kind of change (or perhaps
straight to struct path) is definitely needed from AA.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-05 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-05 18:22 [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 1/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 2/28] Remove redundant check from proc_setattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 19:16   ` Chris Wright
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 3/28] Pass struct file down to remove_suid and children Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:22 ` [RFC 4/28] Add a vfsmount parameter to notify_change() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 5/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 6/28] Add struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mkdir() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 7/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mkdir LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 8/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mknod() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 9/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mknod LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 10/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_symlink() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:23 ` [RFC 11/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_symlink LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 12/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_readlink " Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 13/28] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_link() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 14/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_link LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 15/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_rmdir() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 16/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rmdir LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:24 ` [RFC 17/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_unlink() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 18/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_unlink LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 19/28] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_rename() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 20/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rename LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 21/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_setxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 22/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 23/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_getxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:25 ` [RFC 24/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_getxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 25/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_listxattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 26/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_listxattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 27/28] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_removexattr() Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:26 ` [RFC 28/28] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_removexattr LSM hook Tony Jones
2007-02-05 18:44 ` [RFC 0/28] Patches to pass vfsmount to LSM inode security hooks Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-05 18:58   ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-05 19:02     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06  3:20       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  8:51         ` Trond Myklebust
2007-02-06  9:48           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 10:31             ` Neil Brown
2007-02-07  9:25           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  9:47         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-06 10:26           ` Neil Brown
2007-02-06 10:37             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-12 18:32               ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-02-07  9:58           ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-07 12:11             ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-05 19:15     ` Chris Wright
2007-02-06  0:44   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  2:13   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06  9:52     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-02-07  9:04       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06 12:55     ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07  8:55       ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-07 15:43         ` Chris Wright
2007-02-07 16:06           ` Stephen Smalley
2007-02-07 16:25           ` Jeff Mahoney
2007-02-07 19:55             ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-05 19:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-02-05 19:39   ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-02-05 19:50   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2007-02-05 20:23     ` Casey Schaufler
2007-02-06  2:30     ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-02-06 14:20     ` Tetsuo Handa

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