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From: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
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Subject: Re: do SELinux write/read permission checks exist?
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Michael C Thompson wrote:
> So, I've managed to loose track of this in my mind, but does SELinux do 
> permission checks for sys_read and sys_write?

Take a look at vfs_write() and vfs_read() and you will see that they both call
the LSM security_file_permission() hook which under SELinux is defined by the
selinux_file_permission in security/selinux/hooks.c.

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paul moore
linux security @ hp

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