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

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 15:08:47 EST


James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> David, I've looked at the code and can't see that you need to access the
> label itself outside the LSM. Could you instead simply pass the inode
> pointer around?

It's not quite that simple. I need to impose *two* security labels in
cachefiles_begin_secure() when I'm about to act on behalf of a process that's
tried to access a netfs file:

(1) The security label to act as. This is the label attached to the
cachefilesd process when it starts the cache. This is obtained by
cachefiles_get_security_ID().

(2) The security label to create files as. This is the label attached to
root directory of the cache. This is obtained by
cachefiles_determine_cache_secid().

David
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