From: "Rob Meijer" <capibara@xs4all.nl>
To: "Andy Spencer" <andy753421@gmail.com>
Cc: "Casey Schaufler" <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Privilege dropping security module
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 07:38:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b452e0d0387e9350a5f8bb7fac242194.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090926213528.GB23564@c.hsd1.tn.comcast.net>
On Sat, September 26, 2009 23:35, Andy Spencer wrote:
>> It's amazing who much of this stuff there is to attend to. If you
>> haven't, run checkpatch.py on your patches. You'll need to pass that
>> eventually.
>
> I've fixed the remaining things that checkpatch.pl suggests as well as a
> few others and will include those checks for future patches.
>
>
>> Hmm. You are working with the Linux DAC mechanism, even if only within
>> a process tree. You're not dropping privilege, you're applying a mask
>> to the file permission bits, currently for file system objects, and
>> with other objects (sysvipc at least) in the future. Hmm. modemask?
>> Something derived from "restricted process tree?"
>
> `Access Control Masking' or `Policy Masking' perhaps?
>
Or 'Permission Attenuation' ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 5:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-23 0:56 [RFC] " Andy Spencer
2009-09-23 20:46 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-09-23 22:31 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-23 23:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2009-09-24 16:37 ` David Wagner
2009-09-25 7:22 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-25 20:48 ` David Wagner
2009-09-26 21:09 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-27 0:28 ` David Wagner
2009-10-01 7:38 ` Pavel Machek
2009-10-01 9:15 ` Andy Spencer
2009-10-01 10:42 ` Pavel Machek
2009-09-23 21:31 ` [RFC][PATCH] " Andy Spencer
2009-09-24 16:25 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-09-25 10:06 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-25 16:23 ` Casey Schaufler
2009-09-26 21:35 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-28 5:38 ` Rob Meijer [this message]
2009-09-25 21:00 ` David Wagner
2009-09-29 7:36 ` Andy Spencer
2009-09-29 7:10 ` [RFC][PATCH] Permission masking security module (was dpriv) Andy Spencer
2009-09-29 17:44 ` Greg KH
2009-09-30 0:18 ` Andy Spencer
2009-10-01 2:33 ` Casey Schaufler
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