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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	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 17:51:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071129175155.GY8181@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c0942db0711290935l56d28b70v2b35dfb1663e4d2b@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:35:56AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote:

> Perhaps if you looked at this outside of a file-server scenario, the
> problem would be clearer? Anti-malware companies want to check
> anything written to disk on a system, either at write time or blocking
> the open/mmap. That means proactively protecting email programs with
> known vulnerabilities that have yet to be patched, web browsers
> writing and reading their caches, an Apache instance running WebDAV,
> the list goes on. And these are on desktop systems, with no attached
> file/network server.

... and anything promising that is a grade-A snake oil.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29 17:52 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
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 [this message]
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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     [not found]     ` <9uWCC-xI-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]       ` <9uWMp-Ix-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]         ` <9uX5A-1rs-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]           ` <9uXyK-24f-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-12-03 22:45             ` Bodo Eggert

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