From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
To: Gabor Kerenyi <wom@tateyama.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
Subject: Re: extended file permissions based on LSM
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 16:50:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020831165041.C11165@figure1.int.wirex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200208310616.04709.wom@tateyama.hu>; from wom@tateyama.hu on Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 06:16:04AM +0200
* Gabor Kerenyi (wom@tateyama.hu) wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm looking around the LSM module and I know it has got some
> functions for the filesystem part. Well, it looks good, but the
> permission thing is not enough. In fact it's enough to check
> the permission of an inode, but I'd like to check permissions
> for a dentry AND its inode at the same place and time.
We are anticipating VFS changes that include passing a dentry/vfsmount
pair to the permission check. This gives you both the inode as well as
the point in the tree the user is accessing the inode.
thanks,
-chris
--
Linux Security Modules http://lsm.immunix.org http://lsm.bkbits.net
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-31 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-31 4:16 Gabor Kerenyi
2002-08-31 5:21 ` Greg KH
2002-08-31 7:09 ` Gabor Kerenyi
2002-09-01 0:23 ` Chris Wright
2002-08-31 7:57 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-09-01 0:26 ` Chris Wright
2002-09-01 15:55 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-09-01 23:08 ` Chris Wright
2002-09-02 0:20 ` Gabor Kerenyi
2002-08-31 23:50 ` Chris Wright [this message]
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