From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@kernel.dk,
shaohua.li@intel.com, sds@tycho.nsa.gov, jmorris@namei.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Subject: Re: Make RCU dcache work with CONFIG_SECURITY=y
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 16:29:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinDY2i5+gG3Ggd8mDMxJmZ2fbXYBw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303507049.2441.3.camel@unknown001a4b0c2895>
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 11:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>
>> Comments? I'd really like to see/hear feedback like "yeah, this looks
>> really obviously safe" vs "yeah, looks good, but I really don't feel
>> very comfortable with it" from the security people.
>
> From an SELinux PoV (And I feel semi confident about SMACK) patch 1/3
> can and should go in as soon as you want. 2/3 looked safe on first
> glance, but I think I can make it smaller and better. I'll try to get a
> version of 2/3 on list in the next couple of days. My first thought was
> that it should probably go in via my SELinux tree next window......
Ok, given the pretty obvious nature of 1/3 and no objections, I
committed that one.
Let's see what the situation with 2/3 is. It would be good to not have
slower path lookup for all the selinux-using people, but whatever.
Linus
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-22 23:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-22 0:23 Make RCU dcache work with CONFIG_SECURITY=y Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 0:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] SECURITY: Move exec_permission RCU checks into security modules Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 0:46 ` Eric Paris
2011-04-22 4:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-22 15:25 ` Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 15:27 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-22 0:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] SELINUX: Make selinux cache VFS RCU walks safe Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 0:45 ` Eric Paris
2011-04-22 15:16 ` Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 0:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] SMACK: Make smack directory access check RCU safe Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 1:40 ` Make RCU dcache work with CONFIG_SECURITY=y Shaohua Li
2011-04-22 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-22 21:16 ` Andi Kleen
2011-04-22 21:32 ` Casey Schaufler
2011-04-22 21:17 ` Eric Paris
2011-04-22 23:29 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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