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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>,
	"Kasatkin, Dmitry" <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM List <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:05:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwaFqJQXR3Z8M3byube6hODmiT-dDEH3uFPSKpTDGXHaQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355255320.2356.148.camel@falcor>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Ok. To summarize, S_IMA indicates that there is a rule and that the iint
> was allocated.  To differentiate between 'haven't looked/don't know' and
> 'definitely not', we need another bit.  For this, you're suggesting
> using IS_PRIVATE()?  Hopefully, I misunderstood.

No, for that, I'm suggesting using a new bit in i_flags.

The "IS_PRIVATE()" thing is more a "if you know a-priori that you
aren't interested in pseudo-filesystems, you can already check that
bit, because it will be set for things like /proc and shmem mappings
and pipes etc".

Dmitry seemed to imply that the biggest use for the new bit was for
taking out whole pseudo-filesystems in one go. That would pretty much
be what S_PRIVATE is.

                  Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-22 21:54 [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-22 21:54 ` [PATCH 1/2] vfs: new super block feature flags attribute Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-22 21:54 ` [PATCH 2/2] ima: skip policy search for never appraised or measured files Dmitry Kasatkin
2012-11-27 13:42 ` [PATCH 0/2] ima: policy search speedup Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 12:51   ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 14:08     ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 16:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 17:40         ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 17:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 18:09             ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 18:35               ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 19:07               ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 22:16                 ` Dave Chinner
2012-12-11 18:10             ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:29               ` Al Viro
2012-12-11 18:12             ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:35               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 18:53                 ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 18:18         ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 18:35           ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 18:59             ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 19:10               ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 19:48                 ` Mimi Zohar
2012-12-11 20:05                   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-12-11 20:15                     ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 20:31                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-12-11 20:08                   ` Eric Paris
2012-12-11 22:57                     ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-11 23:02                       ` Eric Paris
2012-12-12 13:56                         ` Kasatkin, Dmitry
2012-12-12 14:25                           ` Eric Paris

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