From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
"Tvrtko A. Ursulin" <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Out of tree module using LSM
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:47:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071129164746.GB9664@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1196354172.6473.52.camel@perihelion>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:36:12AM -0500, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:07 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > The easiest way is as Al described above, just have the userspace
> > program that wrote the file to disk, check it then.
>
> But the problem is that this isn't just Samba, this is a countless
> myriad of different applications. And if one of them doesn't support
> on-access scanning, then the whole solution isn't worth using.
Ok, which specific applications do they care about? Last time I asked
it was still limited to a very small handful, all of which would be
trivial to add such a hook to.
> > There are some nice SAMBA plugins that do just that already out there...
>
> That's really not the problem :-)
Yes it is. That's all you want to catch, when a Windows machine wants
to access a file on a SAMBA server. Do the check then, in userspace.
Believe me, I've been over and over and over and over this before...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-29 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 12:42 Out of tree module using LSM Tvrtko A. Ursulin
2007-11-28 14:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-28 16:38 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-11-28 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-28 17:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-28 18:22 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-28 19:50 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 16:12 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-29 0:12 ` James Morris
2007-11-29 16:27 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 16:51 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-29 16:52 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 0:51 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 1:45 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-11-28 18:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-28 18:30 ` Al Viro
2007-11-29 0:38 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 0:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 1:07 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:36 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 16:47 ` Greg KH [this message]
2007-11-29 16:53 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-11-29 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-11-29 17:27 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 22:58 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-08 10:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-29 17:03 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 17:35 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 17:45 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 18:03 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 18:19 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-29 18:38 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 17:51 ` Al Viro
2007-11-29 17:05 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 17:14 ` Greg KH
2007-11-29 16:26 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-11-29 17:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 18:40 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 18:56 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 19:11 ` Ray Lee
2007-11-29 19:45 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 20:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-29 22:08 ` Al Viro
2007-11-30 0:50 ` James Morris
2007-11-29 23:31 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-29 21:45 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 22:12 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-30 1:48 ` Al Viro
2007-11-30 15:37 ` Justin Banks
2007-11-29 23:34 ` Jon Masters
2007-11-30 6:20 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-30 13:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-29 21:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-28 19:20 ` Andi Kleen
2007-11-28 19:52 ` Alan Cox
2007-11-28 20:05 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-11-29 16:39 ` tvrtko.ursulin
2007-12-01 8:43 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 19:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-02 20:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-02 20:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-02 20:22 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 21:09 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-02 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-02 23:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-02 23:23 ` Pavel Machek
2007-11-29 0:58 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-11-30 20:52 Crispin Cowan
2007-11-30 21:36 ` James Morris
2007-11-30 23:52 ` Crispin Cowan
2007-12-01 0:05 ` James Morris
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2007-12-03 22:45 ` Bodo Eggert
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