From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
Andreas Gruenbacher <a.gruenbacher@computer.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
lsm <linux-security-module@wirex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change LSM hooks in setxattr 2.5.69
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:54:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030507105407.GO10374@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052238063.1377.997.camel@moss-huskers.epoch.ncsc.mil>
On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 12:21:05PM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote:
> This patch against 2.5.69 adds a security_inode_post_setxattr hook so
> that security modules can update the inode security structure after a
> successful setxattr, and it moves the existing security_inode_setxattr
> hook call after the taking the inode semaphore so that atomicity is
> provided for the security check and the update to the inode security
> structure. Al, if you approve of this change, please acknowledge. If
> not, please advise as to what must change. Thanks.
<shrug> no objections, provided that existing code behind that hook doesn't
do anything that could deadlock under ->i_sem. Seeing that it's your code...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 10:41 UTC|newest]
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2003-05-06 16:21 Stephen Smalley
2003-05-07 10:54 ` viro [this message]
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