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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Dave Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	sds@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org, casey@schaufler-ca.com,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] LSM/SELinux: {get,set}context hooks to access LSM security context information.
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:39:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305013954.GH4416@sequoia.sous-sol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204675140.14520.145.camel@moss-terrapins.epoch.ncsc.mil>

* Dave Quigley (dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov) wrote:
> I'm not sure if its a question of better helpers. The code is pretty
> simple.

Yeah, not complextiy issue, just proper layering.

> I think the question is who should be calling fsnotify. 

The VFS ;-)  Shouldn't be too tough to make a simple helper that's used
from SELinux as well as VFS during setxattr.  This keeps things like
locking rules and fsnotify calls in one place.

thanks,
-chris

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05  1:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-04 21:53 [PATCH 1/1] LSM/SELinux: {get,set}context hooks to access LSM security context information David P. Quigley
2008-03-04 22:21 ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-04 23:26 ` Chris Wright
2008-03-04 23:07   ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-04 23:52     ` Chris Wright
2008-03-04 23:35       ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-05  0:10         ` Chris Wright
2008-03-04 23:59           ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-05  0:31             ` James Morris
2008-03-05  1:39             ` Chris Wright [this message]
2008-03-04 23:48 ` James Morris
2008-03-04 23:26   ` Dave Quigley
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-04 22:53 Casey Schaufler
2008-03-04 22:33 ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-04 23:14   ` Chris Wright
2008-03-04 22:51     ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-04 22:59       ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-05  1:08 Casey Schaufler
2008-03-05 13:41 ` Dave Quigley
2008-03-05 14:08 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-03-05 17:24   ` Casey Schaufler

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