From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750808AbWDSPvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:51:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750925AbWDSPvJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:51:09 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:2212 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750808AbWDSPvH (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:51:07 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 08:44:19 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Yuichi Nakamura Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , Kurt Garloff , Christoph Hellwig , Gerrit Huizenga , James Morris , Stephen Smalley , casey@schaufler-ca.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fireflier-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [RESEND][RFC][PATCH 2/7] implementation of LSM hooks Message-ID: <20060419154419.GB26635@kroah.com> References: <20060417225525.GA17463@infradead.org> <20060418115819.GB8591@infradead.org> <20060418213833.GC5741@tpkurt.garloff.de> <20060419121034.GE20481@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 08:55:56AM -0400, Yuichi Nakamura wrote: > However, path-name based configuration can not be achieved on SELinux in > following cases. > 1) Files on file system that does not support xattr(such as sysfs) > SELinux policy editor handles all files as same on such file systems. Hm, I've thought about this in the past and wonder if we should add xattr support to sysfs. Would it be useful for things like SELinux? The files would not be created with any xattrs, but would be able to have them once they are set. Would that be good enough? thanks, greg k-h