From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "David P. Quigley" <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
jmorris@namei.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on sysfs files, directories, and symlinks.
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:50:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090709175049.GA26378@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247160404.4398.218.camel@localhost>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:26:44PM -0400, David P. Quigley wrote:
> I just read over Casey's comments again and I'm pretty sure we have a
> big misunderstanding here. From his initial response it seems that he
> thinks that I am exposing the secids to userspace as the way for setting
> the labels on files. That isn't true. We are still using the full string
> based labels for the userspace interface what the secid is used for is
> to allow the kernel to keep track of changes until the sysfs_dirent is
> destroyed.
Ok, if Casey and others agree that this is the best solution, I'll take
it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-09 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 17:28 [PATCH] Security/sysfs: Enable security xattrs to be set on sysfs files, directories, and symlinks David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 1:44 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-07-09 14:05 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 14:49 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-07-09 14:56 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 15:16 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 15:16 ` Greg KH
2009-07-09 14:11 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 17:26 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 17:50 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-07-09 19:32 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 20:13 ` Greg KH
2009-07-10 3:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-07-13 15:07 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 15:18 ` Greg KH
2009-07-09 17:13 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 17:52 ` Greg KH
2009-07-09 19:28 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 20:12 ` Greg KH
2009-07-09 20:19 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-09 20:41 ` Greg KH
2009-07-14 16:37 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-14 17:50 ` Greg KH
2009-07-14 20:16 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-14 20:35 ` Greg KH
2009-07-14 20:35 ` David P. Quigley
[not found] ` <m1r5wmnee0.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
[not found] ` <1247498399.4398.259.camel@localhost>
2009-07-13 16:50 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-07-13 19:18 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-14 0:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-07-14 13:55 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-14 3:06 ` Casey Schaufler
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-15 13:48 David P. Quigley
2009-07-15 13:48 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-15 14:28 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-15 14:28 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-15 14:31 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-15 14:31 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 16:29 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 16:29 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 16:49 ` Greg KH
2009-07-21 16:49 ` Greg KH
2009-07-21 16:34 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 16:34 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 17:01 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-21 17:01 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-24 8:13 ` James Morris
2009-07-24 8:13 ` James Morris
2009-07-24 14:34 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-24 14:34 ` David P. Quigley
2009-07-24 14:54 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-07-24 14:54 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-14 4:59 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-14 4:59 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-14 12:20 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-14 12:20 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-14 12:40 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-14 12:40 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-15 1:33 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 1:33 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-17 12:01 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-17 12:01 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-15 1:19 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 1:19 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-17 11:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-17 11:53 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-08-14 22:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-14 22:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-15 1:42 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 1:42 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 2:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-15 2:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-15 4:56 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 4:56 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-15 6:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-15 6:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-08-16 17:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-16 17:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-20 13:18 ` David P. Quigley
2009-08-20 13:18 ` David P. Quigley
2009-08-21 3:38 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-08-21 3:38 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-09-03 18:25 David P. Quigley
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