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From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: zhou peng <ailvpeng25@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: About ACL for IPC Object
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:17:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA95A1A.6020003@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6fb445941003230201r656d0363k6ed6853c3edc826b@mail.gmail.com>

zhou peng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have added ACL support to POSIX msg queue on linux kernel 2.6.32.
> Casey Schaufler, would you or anyone like review the patch for me please?
>   

I didn't see anything horribly wrong, but I have not tested it.
Christoph's comments should be heeded.

> The patch is attached.
>   

Please include patches inline. It is much easier to make specific
comments that way and it is The Way We Do Things.

> Best,
>
> 2010/1/21 Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>:
>   
>> zhou peng wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> There are ACL in file system, but why there are no ACL implementation
>>> in IPC object, eg. shm, message queue, FIFO?
>>>
>>>       
>> Most people haven't noticed that IPC objects are even there, much less
>> that they have mode bits and not ACLs. Even when we were doing security
>> evaluations on Unix boxes in the 1990's they were considered insufficiently
>> interesting to justify the additional work to do ACLs.
>>
>> If you really want ACLs on IPC objects it would make a dandy little
>> project for a summer. I would be happy to review patches.
>>
>>     
>>> Is there any fine grained granting in ipc object just like in file object?
>>>
>>>       
>> As Stephen Smalley points out, you can do it with SELinux, although
>> that it rather like driving a thumbtack with a bulldozer.
>>
>>     
>>> Thanks,
>>> Best
>>>
>>> --
>>> zhoupeng
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>>     
>
>
>
>   


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24  0:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <6fb445941001200112o2934f805l4eb4f78000e9527e@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-20  9:20 ` About ACL for IPC Object zhou peng
2010-01-20 21:50   ` Jeremy Allison
2010-01-20 22:00     ` Jeremy Allison
2010-01-21  3:02   ` Casey Schaufler
2010-01-21  9:05     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-01-22  9:15       ` zhou peng
2010-01-22 10:02         ` Américo Wang
2010-01-25 15:21           ` zhou peng
2010-01-25 16:26             ` Américo Wang
2010-03-23  9:01     ` zhou peng
2010-03-23 11:55       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-03-24  0:17       ` Casey Schaufler [this message]

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