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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>,
	Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Are path-based LSM hooks called from the wrong places?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:19:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090326161945.GU28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18658.1238084066@redhat.com>

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 04:14:26PM +0000, David Howells wrote:

> As I said, what I don't want to have to do is attempt to regenerate the full
> pathname, especially if the pathname isn't accessible from within the current
> process's chroot or namespace.

... and if it's not accessible from said process' namespace, pathname-based
checks are going to produce really bizarre results.

IOW, I'd say that such checks simply don't apply in case of fscache.

      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-26 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-25 16:14 Are path-based LSM hooks called from the wrong places? David Howells
2009-03-26  7:14 ` Kentaro Takeda
2009-03-26 15:53 ` Al Viro
2009-03-26 16:14   ` David Howells
2009-03-26 16:19     ` Al Viro [this message]

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