From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754706AbXFDLZ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:25:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753364AbXFDLZu (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:25:50 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:33707 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753302AbXFDLZs (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 07:25:48 -0400 From: Andreas Gruenbacher Organization: SUSE Labs, Novell To: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 13:25:30 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: jjohansen@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070514110607.549397248@suse.de> <200705231816.46197.agruen@suse.de> <20070604105526.GE4363@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20070604105526.GE4363@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706041325.30817.agruen@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 04 June 2007 12:55, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Wed 2007-05-23 18:16:45, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:14, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Why is this configurable? > > > > The maximum length of a pathname is an arbitrary limit: we don't want to > > allocate arbitrary amounts of of kernel memory for pathnames so we > > introduce this limit and set it to a reasonable value. In the unlikely > > case that someone uses insanely long pathnames, this limit can be > > increased. > > vfs does not have configurable pathname limit, and I do not see what > is so special about AA to require this kind of uglyness. You very well know that the vfs has a limit of PATH_MAX characters (4096) for pathnames. This means that at most that many characters can be passed at once. I've really got enough of your perpetual unfounded rants.