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
prev parent 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]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20040119102533.A353@osdlab.pdx.osdl.net \
--to=chrisw@osdl.org \
--cc=agruen@suse.de \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-security-module@wirex.com \
--cc=michael.kerrisk@gmx.net \
--cc=sds@epoch.ncsc.mil \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
--cc=tytso@mit.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
Powered by JetHome