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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	sds@tycho.nsa.gov, spotter@cs.columbia.edu,
	linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add in_execve flag into task_struct.
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:40:35 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2690.1233841235@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090107190652.GA20311@us.ibm.com>

Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> It's ugly, you can't get me to say it isn't ugly :), and it sets a scary
> bad precedent.  But if David insists (in a reply to this msg) that this
> flag really is tops, then just ignore me.  Anyway my point wasn't to
> block the patch but to raise discussion (so someone else could decide to
> block it :) on both the flag and security implications of these
> semantics.

I think it's probably the best way to support Tomoyo's security model without
reworking a chunk of execve().

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06  5:14 [PATCH] Add in_execve flag into task_struct Tetsuo Handa
2009-01-06 15:58 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-06 17:09   ` Shaya Potter
2009-01-06 18:45     ` Stephen Smalley
2009-01-07  6:34       ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-01-07 19:06         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2009-01-08  6:17           ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-02-05 13:40           ` David Howells [this message]
2009-02-12  4:08             ` James Morris

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