Re: [PATCH][SELINUX] Fix selinux_inode_setattr hook

[Chris Wright]

* Stephen Smalley (sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> This patch against 2.6.11-rc3 fixes the selinux_inode_setattr hook
> function to honor the ATTR_FORCE flag, skipping any permission checking
> in that case.  Otherwise, it is possible though unlikely for a denial
> from the hook to prevent proper updating, e.g. for remove_suid upon
> writing to a file.  This would only occur if the process had write
> permission to a suid file but lacked setattr permission to it.  Please
> apply.

Is there any reason not to promote this to the framework?

thanks,
-chris
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