From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: new FROM_ACCESS flag
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:56:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090922135612.GA17769@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090921013048.2763.1494.stgit@paris.rdu.redhat.com>
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 09:30:48PM -0400, Eric Paris wrote:
> This new acc_mode flag is just to tell the security system this inode
> permission check is from the access system call. The security system can
> use this information as it finds appropriete. In particular SELinux plans to
> use this flag to alter what we choose to audit and what we do not choose to
> audit.
I think you're better off splitting the existing MAY_ACCESS flag and
only using MAY_ACCESS for calles from access() insteaf of introducing
a FROM_ACCESS flag and causing lots of naming confusion.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-22 13:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-21 1:30 [PATCH] vfs: new FROM_ACCESS flag Eric Paris
2009-09-21 8:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-09-22 13:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-09-22 17:28 ` Eric Paris
2009-09-22 20:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-09-23 8:48 ` Jamie Lokier
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