From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754311AbXLFB3D (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:29:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751821AbXLFB2y (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:28:54 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60818 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751697AbXLFB2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:28:53 -0500 Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered Address: Red Hat UK Ltd, Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SI4 1TE, United Kingdom. Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 3798903 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: <1196887108.16006.121.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> References: <1196887108.16006.121.camel@moss-spartans.epoch.ncsc.mil> <138670.64371.qm@web36609.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: Stephen Smalley , Daniel J Walsh Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, casey@schaufler-ca.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org, Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0.3+cvs; nmh 1.2-20070115cvs; GNU Emacs 23.0.50 Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:28:25 +0000 Message-ID: <25702.1196904505@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen Smalley wrote: > inode_getsecurity and getprocattr directly return the strings. > Admittedly, the whole interface could be cleaned up and made far more > consistent, but I don't think he necessarily has to go through the > getsecid + secid_to_secctx sequence if he only wants the secctx. It's what Daniel Walsh wanted. David