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From: "'Greg Kroah-Hartman'" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@samsung.com>
Cc: "'Kay Sievers'" <kay@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] driver: core: add security labels to devtmpfs
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 19:20:27 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150605102027.GC3802@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ec01d09f77$d5f6f2c0$81e4d840$@samsung.com>

On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 07:10:23PM +0900, Namjae Jeon wrote:
> Add support for setting security labels(e.g. smack or selinux labels) to
> devtmpfs device nodes. In this manner, drivers can specify desired security
> label in their device_type->devnode or class->devnode method.

What driver wants to do this?  And how does it determine the proper
security label from within the kernel?  Isn't that something that only
userspace can know/set properly?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-05 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05 10:10 [PATCH 2/3] driver: core: add security labels to devtmpfs Namjae Jeon
2015-06-05 10:20 ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman' [this message]
2015-06-05 11:15   ` Namjae Jeon
2015-06-05 11:50     ` 'Greg Kroah-Hartman'

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