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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>,
	akpm@osdl.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>,
	Michael Kerrisk <michael.kerrisk@gmx.net>,
	Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@wirex.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Default hooks protecting the XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX namespace
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:25:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040119102533.A353@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040117164111.GA1058@thunk.org>; from tytso@mit.edu on Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 11:41:11AM -0500

* Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu) wrote:
> Everyone realizes the protection is minimal, right?  If you boot into

Yes.  This is mostly about default protection where there was none.  Trusting
a default kernel to do all the right things before booting back to a
more secure kernel is indeed risky.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

      reply	other threads:[~2004-01-19 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-16 21:14 [PATCH 1/2] Move XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX macro to common location Chris Wright
2004-01-16 21:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] Default hooks protecting the XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX namespace Chris Wright
2004-01-16 23:37   ` Andreas Gruenbacher
2004-01-17 16:41   ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-01-19 18:25     ` Chris Wright [this message]

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