From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
casey@schaufler-ca.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:15:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10709.1190276115@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F1F2EE.1010904@kernel.org>
Andrew Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> wrote:
> OOC If we were to simply drop support for one process changing the
> capabilities of another, would we need this patch?
Well, the patch could be less, but there's still the possibility of a kernel
service wanting to override the capabilities mask.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 16:17 [PATCH 0/3] Introduce credential record David Howells
2007-09-19 16:17 ` [PATCH 1/3] CRED: Introduce a COW credentials record David Howells
2007-09-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/3] CRED: Split the task security data and move part of it into struct cred David Howells
2007-09-19 17:28 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-09-19 22:57 ` David Howells
2007-09-20 16:31 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-09-20 17:17 ` David Howells
2007-09-20 17:33 ` David Howells
2007-09-24 14:00 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-24 14:21 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-09-24 15:35 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-09-24 15:52 ` David Howells
2007-09-26 13:30 ` David Howells
2007-09-26 14:14 ` Stephen Smalley
2007-09-26 14:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-09-19 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/3] CRED: Move the effective capabilities into the cred struct David Howells
2007-09-20 4:11 ` Andrew Morgan
2007-09-20 8:15 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-09-20 13:38 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-20 15:36 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-09-20 16:09 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-26 18:23 ` Al Viro
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