From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce new LSM hooks where vfsmount is available.
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:18:38 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.1.10.0809250715030.5963@tundra.namei.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080924132855.GB10756@us.ibm.com>
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Kentaro Takeda (takedakn@nttdata.co.jp):
[please trim quoted material..]
> >
> > +config SECURITY_PATH
> > + bool "Security hooks for pathname based access control"
> > + depends on SECURITY
> > + help
> > + This enables the security hooks for pathname based access control.
> > + If enabled, a security module can use these hooks to
> > + implement pathname based access controls.
> > + If you are unsure how to answer this question, answer N.
>
> Is there any reason why users should have to deal with this option?
> Would it make sense in this case to make the option and have tomoyo and
> apparmor select it?
Who are users in this case? It's probably useful as a separate option for
testing purposes and for people doing development. LSMs which depend on
it should probably still use SELECT in any case.
--
James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-24 21:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <5fb14edc0809090902m32431bf6yf518a457e410764d@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20080910134540.45ec1272.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[not found] ` <48C877DE.4040402@nttdata.co.jp>
2008-09-17 2:16 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-17 4:00 ` Casey Schaufler
2008-09-17 8:35 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-17 17:46 ` david
2008-09-23 6:06 ` James Morris
2008-09-23 6:12 ` david
2008-09-23 15:02 ` Stephen Smalley
2008-09-23 15:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-23 21:20 ` James Morris
2008-09-24 8:00 ` Kentaro Takeda
2008-09-24 13:28 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-09-24 21:18 ` James Morris [this message]
2008-12-17 4:24 [PATCH] introduce " Kentaro Takeda
2008-12-17 4:42 ` Al Viro
2008-12-17 4:50 ` Al Viro
2008-12-17 5:06 ` Kentaro Takeda
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