From: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: jjohansen@suse.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [AppArmor 00/45] AppArmor security module overview
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:34:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071026183448.GC32415@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071026073721.618b4778@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
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On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 07:37:21AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:40:24 -0700
> jjohansen@suse.de wrote:
>
> before going into the LSM / security side of things, I'd like to get
> the VFS guys to look at your VFS interaction code.
>
yes, the vfs interaction definitely need their review.
> In addition, I'd like to ask you to put a file in Documentation/
> somewhere that describes what AppArmor is intended security protection
> is (it's different from SELinux for sure for example); by having such a
> document for each LSM user, end users and distros can make a more
> informed decision which module suits their requirements... and it also
> makes it possible to look at the implementation to see if it has gaps
> to the intent, without getting into a pissing contest about which
> security model is better; but unless the security goals are explicitly
> described that's a trap that will keep coming back... so please spend
> some time on getting a good description going here..
>
yes this is needed and a good idea in general
thanks
john
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-26 6:40 [AppArmor 00/45] AppArmor security module overview jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 01/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 02/45] Pass struct path down to remove_suid and children jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 03/45] Add a vfsmount parameter to notify_change() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 04/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setattr LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 05/45] Add struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mkdir() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 06/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mkdir LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 07/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_mknod() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 08/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_mknod LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 09/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_symlink() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 10/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_symlink LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 11/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_readlink " jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 12/45] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_link() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 13/45] Pass the struct vfsmounts to the inode_link LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 14/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_rmdir() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 15/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rmdir LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 16/45] Call lsm hook before unhashing dentry in vfs_rmdir() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 17/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_unlink() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 18/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_unlink LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 19/45] Add struct vfsmount parameters to vfs_rename() jjohansen
2007-10-26 7:37 ` Al Viro
2007-10-26 18:23 ` John Johansen
2007-10-26 20:33 ` Al Viro
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 20/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_rename LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 21/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_setxattr() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 22/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_setxattr LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 23/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_getxattr() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 24/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_getxattr LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 25/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_listxattr() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 26/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_listxattr LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 27/45] Add a struct vfsmount parameter to vfs_removexattr() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 28/45] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_removexattr LSM hook jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 29/45] Fix __d_path() for lazy unmounts and make it unambiguous jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 30/45] Make d_path() consistent across mount operations jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 31/45] Add d_namespace_path() to compute namespace relative pathnames jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 32/45] Enable LSM hooks to distinguish operations on file descriptors from operations on pathnames jjohansen
2007-10-26 11:30 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 11:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 18:49 ` John Johansen
2007-10-26 20:24 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-10-26 20:58 ` Miklos Szeredi
2007-10-26 21:56 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 33/45] Pass struct file down the inode_*xattr security LSM hooks jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 34/45] Factor out sysctl pathname code jjohansen
2007-10-26 9:24 ` James Morris
2007-10-26 6:40 ` [AppArmor 35/45] Allow permission functions to tell between parent and leaf checks jjohansen
2007-10-26 12:32 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-10-26 18:26 ` John Johansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 36/45] Export audit subsystem for use by modules jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 37/45] AppArmor: Main Part jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 38/45] AppArmor: Module and LSM hooks jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 40/45] AppArmor: all the rest jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 41/45] add simple network toggles to apparmor jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 42/45] Add AppArmor LSM to security/Makefile jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 43/45] Switch to vfs_permission() in do_path_lookup() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 44/45] Switch to vfs_permission() in sys_fchdir() jjohansen
2007-10-26 6:41 ` [AppArmor 45/45] Fix file_permission() jjohansen
2007-10-26 7:04 ` [AppArmor 00/45] AppArmor security module overview John Johansen
2007-10-26 14:37 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-26 18:34 ` John Johansen [this message]
2007-10-26 20:15 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-26 20:44 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-10-26 21:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-26 21:24 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2007-10-26 22:16 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-10-26 22:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-10-27 20:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-10-28 14:25 ` Andreas Gruenbacher
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2007-05-14 11:06 jjohansen
2007-05-14 13:50 ` John Johansen
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