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From: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>,
	jeffschroeder@computer.org, Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Karl MacMillan <kmacmillan@mentalrootkit.com>,
	KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@kaigai.gr.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:27:47 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070517055747.GA15474@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070514200011.GB3969@ucw.cz>

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:00:11PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Following are two patches which have been sitting for some time in -mm.
> > 
> > Where "some time" == "nearly six months".
> > 
> > We need help considering, reviewing and testing this code, please.
> 
> I did quick scan, and it looks ok. Plus, it means we can finally start
> using that old capabilities subsystem... so I think we should do it.

FWIW, I looked through it recently as well, and it looked reasonable enough
to me, though I'm not a security expert. I did have a question about
testing corner cases etc, which Serge has tried to address.

Serge, are you planning to post an update without STRICTXATTR ? That should
simplify the second patch.

Regards
Suparna

> 
> 							Pavel
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Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@in.ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-17  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-08 19:15 [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction Serge E. Hallyn
2007-05-08 19:16 ` [PATCH 1/2] file capabilities: implement file capabilities Serge E. Hallyn
2007-05-08 19:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] file capabilities: accomodate >32 bit capabilities Serge E. Hallyn
2007-05-08 20:58   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-08 21:49     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-05-10 20:01       ` Andreas Dilger
2007-05-11  6:09         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-05-14 17:26           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2007-05-08 20:05 ` [PATCH 0/2] file capabilities: Introduction Andrew Morton
2007-05-14 20:00   ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-17  5:57     ` Suparna Bhattacharya [this message]
2007-05-17 12:51       ` Serge E. Hallyn

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