From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754432AbXLFBk3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:40:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751791AbXLFBkS (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:40:18 -0500 Received: from web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([209.191.85.30]:38937 "HELO web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751539AbXLFBkQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Dec 2007 20:40:16 -0500 X-YMail-OSG: UZoW34kVM1nn7qOaOmN12waB3Rm_0CkMgE_Tdqb23ev1KfrHxMbll9kW56C8o9YAmbpMsW5cSA-- X-RocketYMMF: rancidfat Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 17:40:15 -0800 (PST) From: Casey Schaufler Reply-To: casey@schaufler-ca.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] KEYS: Add keyctl function to get a security label To: David Howells , 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 In-Reply-To: <25702.1196904505@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-ID: <289732.78389.qm@web36613.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- David Howells wrote: > 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. Name dropper. And we don't have a convention, really. So go ahead with key_getsecurity or key_getsecctx, as you choose. At some point we should either change inode_getsecurity to inode_getsecctx or secid_to_secctx to secid_to_security. Not the problem of the day. Casey Schaufler casey@schaufler-ca.com