Re: [PATCH] BSD Secure Levels: claim block dev in file struct rather than inode struct, 2.6.11-rc2-mm1 (3/8)

Chris Wright
2005-02-07T22:26:18Z

* Michael Halcrow (mhalcrow@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> This is the third in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure
> Levels LSM. It moves the claim on the block device from the inode
> struct to the file struct in order to address a potential
> circumvention of the control via hard links to block devices. Thanks
> to Serge Hallyn for pointing this out.

Hard links still point to same inode, what's the issue that this
addresses?

thanks,
-chris
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