From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
casey@schaufler-ca.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk,
trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, bfields@fieldses.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:00:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080229010055.GA26176@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204245167.2715.37.camel@moss-terrapins.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:32:47PM -0500, Dave Quigley wrote:
> I can always go with the original hook name of get_security_xattr_name
> which turns into a security_get_security_xattr_name call which seems a
> bit ludicrous. The only other complaint that I saw from Casey besides
> the name of the function was that there could be more than one xattr. If
> we want to address that then I need another hook that says give me all
> data that the LSM deems important for this file. Which is essentially
> the same thing as taking each of the xattr names that the module will
> provide, grabbing each of them in turn, and concatenating them together.
> For SELinux this is no different than getsecurity with the selinux
> suffix. The same goes for SMACK.
What about Casey's suggestion of get_security_blob? For any reasonable
module that just has a single xattr it's trivial and for those that
have multiple or a different storage model it might get complicated
but that's not our problem for now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-29 1:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-27 22:11 RFC Labeled NFS Initial Code Review David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 23:42 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-28 0:12 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-28 1:07 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-28 13:43 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-28 19:23 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-28 19:30 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-28 19:59 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-28 23:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-29 0:04 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 0:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-29 0:32 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 1:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-02-29 0:42 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 2:07 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 1:48 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 13:30 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-29 14:45 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-29 1:47 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 1:33 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 2:15 ` James Morris
2008-02-29 0:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 0:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-29 1:00 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 1:55 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 5:04 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 17:46 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 18:28 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 18:52 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 19:50 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 21:07 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 21:00 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 22:27 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 22:15 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 22:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-03-01 0:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-03-01 0:41 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 1:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 5:01 ` Trond Myklebust
2008-02-29 17:26 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 1:04 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 0:52 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 2:29 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 2:09 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 1:15 ` James Morris
2008-02-29 13:31 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-29 17:52 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-02-29 21:50 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 02/11] Security: Add hook to calculate context based on a negative dentry David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 03/11] VFS: Add security label support to *notify David P. Quigley
2008-02-28 1:20 ` James Morris
2008-02-28 16:07 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-28 23:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-28 23:44 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 0:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-02-29 0:06 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 1:52 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-29 20:19 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 04/11] KConfig: Add KConfig entries for SELinux labeled NFS David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 05/11] NFSv4: Add label recommended attribute and NFSv4 flags David P. Quigley
2008-02-28 1:52 ` James Morris
2008-02-28 1:45 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-28 13:55 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 06/11] SELinux: Add new labeling type native labels David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 07/11] NFS/SELinux: Add security_label text mount option to nfs and add handling code to the security server David P. Quigley
2008-02-28 14:22 ` Eric Paris
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 08/11] NFS: Introduce lifecycle management for label attribute David P. Quigley
2008-02-28 4:13 ` James Morris
2008-02-28 16:24 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-28 16:46 ` Dave Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 09/11] NFS: Client implementation of Labeled-NFS David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 10/11] NFS: Extend nfs xattr handlers to accept the security namespace David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 22:11 ` [PATCH 11/11] NFSD: Server implementation of MAC Labeling David P. Quigley
2008-02-28 1:46 ` James Morris
2008-02-28 0:48 ` RFC Labeled NFS Initial Code Review Dave Quigley
2008-02-28 1:23 ` Dave Quigley
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-27 20:39 David P. Quigley
2008-02-27 20:39 ` [PATCH 01/11] Security: Add hook to get full maclabel xattr name David P. Quigley
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