From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hch@infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Credentials test patch
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:25:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5314.1190136341@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190133857.6656.20.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
> What about the process' capabilities? Shouldn't they also be part of a
> credential?
Quite probably. The cred struct is not closed at this point. I certainly
would like to move some of the stuff hidden behind the security pointer in the
task struct, at least for the purpose of acting on things. For things that
act on the task, the task struct needs a resident label that controls that.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-13 19:56 Credentials test patch David Howells
2007-09-13 20:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-13 21:19 ` David Howells
2007-09-13 21:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-15 15:51 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-17 11:02 ` David Howells
2007-09-17 14:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-09-17 15:27 ` David Howells
2007-09-18 16:33 ` David Howells
2007-09-18 16:44 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-18 17:25 ` David Howells [this message]
2007-09-18 17:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2007-09-18 18:03 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-18 18:24 ` David Howells
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