From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions.
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:40:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080218004043.GV27894@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200802180003.m1I03pIl018540@www262.sakura.ne.jp>
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:03:51AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Hello.
>
> > No printable comments, except for that:
> >
> > (e) why don't you guys move the Linus' Serious Mistake to _callers_ of
> > vfs_mknod() and its ilk?
> >
> > Which obviously solves all problems with having vfsmount.
>
> Excuse me. I didn't understand what "the Linus' Serious Mistake to
> _callers_ of vfs_mknod()" is. Could you give me some URLs or hints?
Linus' Serious Mistake: LSM.
Moving that junk to callers for vfs_mknod(): should be obvious; remove
the calls of security_whatever() from vfs_...() and add them in places
that call the functions in question.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-18 0:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 10:20 [RFC] Add vfsmount to vfs helper functions Kentaro Takeda
2008-01-30 13:00 ` Al Viro
2008-02-02 14:23 ` Tetsuo Handa
2008-02-17 9:00 ` Tetsuo Handa
2008-02-17 23:38 ` Al Viro
2008-02-18 0:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2008-02-18 0:40 ` Al Viro [this message]
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