Re: [AppArmor 01/41] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook

From: Andreas Gruenbacher
Date: Fri May 25 2007 - 16:00:50 EST


On Friday 25 May 2007 19:43, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> [...] but the AppArmor code could certainly check for that in exec by
> enforcing the argv[0] convention. It would be perfectly reasonable for a
> system that is so dependent on pathnames to require that.

Hmm ... that's a strange idea. AppArmor cannot assume anything about argv[0],
and it would be a really bad idea to change the well-established semantics of
argv[0].

There is no actual need for looking at argv[0], though: AppArmor decides based
on the actual pathname of the executable...

Thanks,
Andreas
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