Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Fri Jun 15 2007 - 22:57:28 EST



--- James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On my system, it takes about 1.2 seconds to label a fully checked out
> kernel source tree with ~23,000 files in this manner

That's an eternity for that many files to be improperly labeled.
If, and the "if" didn't originate with me, your policy is
demonstrably correct (how do you do that?) for all domains
you could claim that the action is safe, if not ideal.
I can't say if an evaluation team would buy the "safe"
argument. They've been known to balk before.


Casey Schaufler
casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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