Re: [PATCH 11/14] CacheFiles: Permit an inode's security ID to beobtained [try #2]

From: Stephen Smalley
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 13:25:29 EST


On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 10:07 -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> --- David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Permit an inode's security ID to be obtained by the CacheFiles module. This
> > is
> > then used as the SID with which files and directories will be created in the
> > cache.
>
> This is SELinux specific functionality. It should not be an LSM
> interface.

Odd, you proposed exactly the same hook (aside from naming convention
and secid as argument vs. as retval) in recent postings on linux-audit
and selinux list for use by the audit system.

--
Stephen Smalley
National Security Agency

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