From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Joy Latten <latten@austin.ibm.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
selinux@tycho.nsa.gov, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
vyekkirala@TrustedCS.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Add security check before flushing SAD/SPD
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:46:48 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0703231441390.30602@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174628387.10788.53.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Eric Paris wrote:
> Maybe I'm way out on a limb here but if I am a regular user and I say
> rm /tmp/* and I only have permissions to delete some of the files I
> expect just those couple to be delete, not the whole operation denied.
I don't think this analogy holds up, as rm is a per-file deletion
operation, and it is the shell which expands the wildcard for you.
A 'flush' has a semantic implication that all entries will be removed, and
it should be atomic and either succeed or fail at that granularity.
- James
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-23 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 18:35 [PATCH]: Add security check before flushing SAD/SPD Joy Latten
2007-03-22 19:01 ` David Miller
2007-03-22 21:23 ` Joy Latten
2007-03-22 23:49 ` James Morris
2007-03-22 23:50 ` Joy Latten
2007-03-23 0:56 ` James Morris
2007-03-23 5:39 ` Eric Paris
2007-03-23 6:22 ` David Miller
2007-03-23 16:33 ` Joy Latten
2007-03-23 16:59 ` Eric Paris
2007-03-23 18:50 ` Joy Latten
2007-03-23 18:46 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-03-23 18:47 ` David Miller
2007-03-23 18:50 ` Eric Paris
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-03-26 19:39 Joy Latten
2007-03-26 20:05 ` James Morris
2007-03-26 20:14 ` James Morris
2007-03-26 20:34 ` Eric Paris
2007-03-26 22:58 Joy Latten
2007-03-26 23:21 Joy Latten
2007-03-27 3:08 ` James Morris
2007-06-04 19:05 ` Eric Paris
2007-06-04 19:44 ` James Morris
2007-06-04 23:13 ` James Morris
2007-06-04 23:55 ` David Miller
2007-06-05 17:56 ` Joy Latten
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