Re: Security issues with local filesystem caching

Stephen Smalley
2006-11-02T18:05:34Z

On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:29 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:45 -0500, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 10:58 -0500, Karl MacMillan wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
> > > fssid seems like the wrong name, though it does match the DAC concept.
> > > This is really more general impersonation of another domain by the
> > > kernel and might have other uses.
> >
> > NFS will want a fssid in order to have file access checks applied
> > against the client process' SID if/when the client process' context
> > becomes available.
>
> I was suggesting that it might be helpful if this applied to all checks
> - not just file access - and would therefore need a different name.

Not all checks (e.g. not when checking the ability of another task to
send a signal to the task), but all checks where the task SID is used as
the subject/source.

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Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency